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Ice melt can be damaging to your lawn, plants and pets!

While the winter where you live may seem harsh, the snow on top of your lawn forms a bit of a protective layer over the grass.  

Please let us know as soon as your spring clean up is completed so we can schedule your first treatment.   

One of the largest broods of periodical cicadas, known as Brood XIV, will emerge from their underground nests this spring and make their presence known after 17 years of slumber.   

Mosquitoes and ticks can carry harmful diseases that afflict humans, pets and wild animals.  

Pink or reddish fibers in your lawn may be the telltale sign of red thread, a foliar turf grass disease that is usually seen in the cooler moist weather of spring and fall.  

Be sure your lawn gets enough water and do NOT scalp the lawn when mowing!

If your lawn is showing signs of stress, increase your watering time to every day for ten days or more until it recovers.

 The heat of summer has passed, but your lawn still needs water.  

During the fall and winter months, your trees and shrubs need to develop reserves of nutrients in their root systems. 

 Trees and shrubs need protection from winter dehydration, windburn and the loss of essential nutrients. 

Lawnsense will be closed from the middle of December to the beginning of March.