Get Started in Composting

As Tommy mentioned many times, compost and compost tea help plants grow. Here’s some basic information to help you get started in composting. According to the EPA, 20-30% of what we throw away is food scraps and yard waste. These items should be composted. Doing...

Fall Landscape Tips

As Thanksgiving approaches, our lawns are seeded, aerated, fed and shaping-up nicely for a terrific spring. It’s time to focus on our landscapes so, here’s a few fall landscape tips: Plant now. Fall is the time to plant bulbs such as, daffodils and tulips for a...

Turfgrass Soil Amendment Study

Tommy Cowett’s On the Lawn setting up a turfgrass soil amendment study. During fall seeding, our team uses a lot of soil amendments to improve the dense heavy clay soils in our area. These tests will help us to identify which products perform the best for the Piedmont...

Peak for Fall Leaves

It’s that beautiful time of year, peak for fall leaves in the Piedmont and for most homeowners – a sure sign that those leaves will be dropping in larger volume very soon. As Tommy mentioned during the Love Your Lawn Radio Hour this week, scientific...

A Lawn Restoration Project

Lawn Restoration is serious business and at GrowinGreen we do not make the recommendation unless it is necessary. A field manager visited a new customer to provide an estimate. The first two photos show what he found during that visit – the lawn was all weeds,...