BestYard Blogs

Early Fall Lawn Care to prepare your yard for the coming winter  Clean up your garden beds: Remove debris, leaves, and weeds. You can put in edging and re-mulch for the winter. Put potted material inside: to protect them from the upcoming freezing temperatures. Plant bulbs for spring: Popular bulbs...

  Check out these easy and practical end-of-summer landscaping tips designed to extend the season and keep your outdoor living area healthy and comfortable. Watering- Watering your lawn and garden can be problematic, depending on local limitations. About 1 inch of water is all your lawn needs to push...

With days getting shorter, now is a great time to think about how lighting can help you make the most of your yard. We are almost a month from the first day of fall; landscape lighting can help give us more time outdoors. Lighting can enhance our outdoor experiences, accessibility, security,...

Now is an excellent time to think about how to keep our four-legged friends safe while maintaining our landscapes. Avoid potentially dangerous plants. Many dogs dig up or chew bulbs and plants. If your dog is curious and likes to dig or taste what’s growing, keep dangerous plants in an...

Flower breeding companies invest years of time and money in developing new plant varieties, colors, and traits. They are constantly improving current varieties, like the ability to withstand extreme weather conditions. Some specific traits they look for in flower breeding are; more flowers, larger flowers, different flower shapes, specific...

Learn what is damaging your tree and how to stop it. Distinguish between plant damage brought on by diseases, insects, or a nutrient deficiency. Learn to identify these pests and how to protect the trees. Beetles and bugs are damaging our trees. Ash Bark Beetle – These beetles account...

Now that the rain seems to be slowing down and we are entering 90-degree days, what should we be looking out for in our gardens? With these warmer days, the existing planting in your garden may start to look as if they need more water. Some leaves will become...

What is too hot? This will depend on the plants – Cool season plants like pansies, snapdragons, and veggies like broccoli, lettuce, etc. don’t like temps above 75. You will see those veggies bolt, (Go to flower and seed). Warm season plants like tomatoes, peppers, squashes, zinnia, impatiens, &...

Here’s how to cycle and soak: Break up your watering into shorter intervals. For example, if you usually water an area of lawn for about 15 minutes, then don’t apply all the water within one 15-minute timeframe. Watering all at once creates run-off and wasted water your plants won’t...

A favorite family activity each 4th of July may be to have a sparkler and write something in the sky! Most people usually throw the used sparkler on the ground and forget about it. Do not do that! It is bad for your lawn! Get a bucket of water!...