Inadvertant Mud Slinging

As we hop our "Grasshopper" mowers between the raindrops these past few weeks, we share in your frustration - cutting the extremely long grass, while NOT striping the lawn with a thin strip of mud that draws up the wheels with each pass, is a nearly impossible feat. 

Some lawns are just too wet to cut - mowers and feet both sink into the ground. Soon, we will fondly remember all the water, as we enter the hot dry season coming up here.

Till then, anyone invented the hovercraft mower yet?

Are You A Dead-Header?

Summer's here, and with it comes a rainbow of color in flowers. Beds filled with purple and fuschia petunias, yellow and orange marigolds, zinnias in sizzlin' hot summer shades and hanging baskets filled with multi-colored annuals - and all of them require dead-heading to keep their blooms coming. The more old blooms you can take off, the more consistent color you'll see. 

Don't forget to fertilize, using your choice of a vast array of fertilizers out there. But that's another blog for another day.

And keep watering regularly, after we stop getting deluged here in the Northeast, of course. Later in the summer, especially, guard against the soil becoming too dry and you'll enjoy your flowers well into the Fall.