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Uncle's Playbook for Lawn Coaches
Taking care of your lawn is a lot like being a coach and every successful coach has a playbook filled with game plans for any opponent. Just like the coach on your favorite sports team, the first thing...
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Grass Seed Buyers Guide
Every fall there is a bit of blarney in the seed business. Some folks are now adding fillers and coatings to their grass seed and selling it as magic. Why some seed bags are now only half full with...
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Fantastic Five for Fall Foliage
This fall, when planning your landscape designs think of these five Idiot Proof Plants for excellent multi-season color in the garden or landscape. Uncle's Idiot Proof shrubs have proven to be the most...
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Question of the Day: When Should I Overseed My Lawn?
If you haven’t over-seeded your lawn this September, today is better than tomorrow and tomorrow is better than next week. As fall approaches, days get shorter and night time temperatures drop....
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Pro-grass-tinators Guide to Fall Overseeding
If you haven’t over seeded your lawn this fall, today is better than tomorrow and tomorrow is better than next week. In fall, days get shorter and night time temperatures drop. Crabgrass, foxtail, and...
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Fertilize in Fall for Healthy Trees
Why should you fertilize trees and shrubs? Improve the health and disease tolerance of your trees and shrubs each year by supplementing much-needed nutrients every fall using fertilizer spikes or a...
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Ahhh....The Smell of Fresh Cut Grass in the Morning!
It’s October, and the lawn is looking fantastic. The neighbors are impressed, flashing the big thumbs up as they drive by. Standing on the driveway feeling a great sense of satisfaction in all the hard...
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Sensational Six Trees for Fall Foliage
Many people believe fall to be the most beautiful season, as leaves change from green to brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red and purple. Watching leaves turn color can be one of the highlights of...
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Fall Seeding, Fall Weeding
"Uncle, I followed your Fall Renovation Program, I used your weed free grass seed. Why do I have weeds in my yard?" Uncle's Response:"Well, it really means you did it right!"When properly preparing...
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Spring Flowering Trees
MagnoliasThe early bloom on these favorites will pump up any yard or garden. Show off the plantation with the Royal Star or a Saucer Magnolia. The white flower of the Royal Star and the pink blossoms...
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Reduce Salt Damage to Build Healthy Soil
Salt damage! Heavy snows are often blamed for winter kill to lawn grasses and garden plants. Salt damage from caustic ice melter can be the real culprit. Where snow piles up around patios and driveways...
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First Week in March: What You Should Be Doing In Your Lawn
It's been a dry winter and lawns are toasty brown. Grass blades have been frozen by winter temperatures and burned by winter sun. These old dried blades do not recover. In time they will be replaced by...
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Ornamental Grasses Idiot Proof Landscaping
These days, foliage color and texture has become of greater importance in the landscape, container gardens, or in planters. We find ourselves ending up with the same handful of annuals, deciduous...
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Renovation Revelations
Measure the size of your lawn. An accurate measurement is important for calculating the right amount of grass seed and Renovator fertilizer. Simple way to measure is to walk the perimeter counting your...
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Tulips Not All the Same
ZOOM! for Bulbs!Chosen as the most Fantastic Spring Flowering Bulb tulips continue to be the most popular with our customers. Valued for their flowers, tulips are deeply rooted into the Dutch culture....
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Five Fantastic Spring Flowering Bulbs
ZOOM! for BulbsColorful masses of eye-catching spring bulbs are an easy cure for those winter doldrums. Bulbs planted in fall make dazzling beds of bright neon colors blooming from February to May. Now...
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Uncle’s Secret for Crabgrass Control
Uncle’s secret to crabgrass control isn’t really a secret. Uncle has been telling us since we were knee high to a grasshopper. After fifty years’ experience in sod production, Uncle knows a little...
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Mow or Let it Go? Six Tips on Mowing During the Rainy Season
The cool spring season with plenty of rain and Uncle's Idiot Proof Program have Blue Wave bluegrass and Heat Wave fescue lawns growing like crazy. It's easy to fall behind on mowing schedules when it's...
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Winter Prep for Spring Lawns
Hopefully there will be a few more days of seasonable and reasonable temperatures to work on spring lawn preparations. Here's a few reminders for the next break in the weather.TurfTime to get those...
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Idiot Proof Indoor Seed Starting
Gardening can be fun and educational for the whole family, plus you get tomatoes! Gardening can be that break you need from the hustle and bustle of the work week. Gardening can be that connection you...
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