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Keeping Your Lawn Healthy & Green All Season Long
A beautiful and healthy lawn for your home or business begins with applying the right type of fertilizer. Starting in early spring and using regular applications throughout the summer and fall assures that your lawn will stay a lush vibrant green, remain weed free, and develop a deep healthy root
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Oyster-shell Scale in the Eagle Valley
Oyster-shell Scale is common on many trees and shrubs in our area. This insect is very fond of Ash, Aspen, Cottonwood, Willow and Lilacs. Oyster-shell Scale eggs hatch in late May and crawl through the end of June and are the most damaging scale in Colorado. Oyster Shell Scale literally sucks
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What is Aeration?
Aeration involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more vigorous lawn. The main reason for aerating is to alleviate soil compaction. Compacted soils have too many solid particles in a
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Why Irrigation Assessment is Important
Your lawn is your outdoor living space. In order to achieve a greener more vibrant lawn it is essential to have a properly operating irrigation system. Proper watering conserves water, promotes a healthy root system, a more vibrant color and a vigorous lawn. It helps fight against natural droughts and
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Spring Tips for Healthy Trees and Shrubs
With spring upon us it is time to start thinking about our landscapes again. Of particular concern are our shrubs and trees, which are very susceptible to insects and fungal infections as they transition from dormancy to their most active growth stage. In the Eagle Valley there are three very
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Three Spring Lawn Care Tips for a Healthy Lawn
  Rake your lawn to protect from snow mold – Snow mold is a fungal disease that usually appears in early spring after a particularly snowy winter.  One of the most important things you can do to prevent snow mold from occurring is to rake your lawn as soon as
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Spring Garden Tips
1.  Divide and transplant A plant with a dead center or a lack of blooms last year may indicate that it needs to be divided. Divide when new growth emerges. A.     But which plants? Summer and fall blooming perennials such as asters, liatris, garden phlox, Echinacea and ornamental grasses are
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The Lilac Ash Borer
With the great number of lilac and ash trees in the Valley, the lilac-ash borer is a pest to be on the look out for. This wasp like insect lays eggs in cracks and wounds in the bark, which hatch then bore into the trunk. The larvae feed in the
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