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If soil temperatures rise too high in your garden, put down a layer of organic mulch to a depth of at least one inch. This will keep the soil cooler while retaining much-needed moisture.

Although you may love to tackle maintenance and improvement projects inside your home, pruning tall trees is one activity many homeowners prefer to outsource for safety reasons. If you’re tired of balancing on the top of a rickety ladder, we’re always available to take over.

Fun Fact: You can change the color of a hydrangea by altering the pH level of the soil. To be bluer, add organic materials like egg shells and coffee grounds or high-acid fertilizer. But do give it time!

The Green Man is a mysterious oversized figure carved into a hillside near Wilmington, England. Today, the 227-foot tall figure appears to hold two staves, but drawings from 1776 show him holding a rake in one hand and a scythe in the other.

Gardening Trivia: There are more microorganisms in one teaspoon of soil than there are people on earth. Yes, it contains almost 8 billion microorganisms. A whole lot!

Trees benefit from being pruned in the third quarter of the moon phase, the week following a full moon. Moisture and sap levels are at their lowest during this time.

Mulch can be either organic or inorganic. Examples of inorganic mulch include rock, gravel, or stone. Organic mulch typically consists of chipped or shredded trees, tree limbs, or bark.

Leaves in garbage bags are one of the biggest space wasters in landfills, and many ban them. If you have your annual collection of autumn leaves ready for removal, call us to haul them away for proper disposal.

Gardening Quiz: Q: Which of the following can you use as a natural soap? A) Rose petals; B) Honeysuckle petals C) Carrot greens D) Yucca roots. A: "D"

If your tree looks like a wild head of hair, with unruly, crisscrossing branches and an unattractive overall shape, a pruning and shaping session may be in order. Pruning is more than a cosmetic procedure. It will also improve a tree's overall health and enhance its resistance to disease.

When doing any work on a gas-powered lawnmower, even filling it with gas or oil, always disconnect the spark plug to prevent accidental starting. If your lawn mower won’t start, make sure the spark plug was reconnected.

The longer leaves sit, the harder it can be to collect them. That's why leaf removal services recommend doing a full leaf removal multiple times during the fall, usually around the end of October, end of November, and end of Christmas.

When caring for your garden, keep in mind that bio-diversity is important. Maintaining a healthy population of beneficial insects will help keep your garden looking great.

A tree is an expensive and long term investment that must be considered carefully. Depending on your choice your tree could be 50 feet tall and impact your entire yard and perhaps your neighbors as well. A tree expert will help you choose the best location in your yard, keeping in mind future impact on buried or overhead utilities and your neighbors.

Gardening has many proven health benefits. The CDC states that you can burn up to 330 calories during just one hour of light gardening and yard work. Gardening is considered moderate to high-intensity exercise.

As summer wanes, trees produce less chlorophyll, the compound that gives leaves their green color. Each tree species loses chlorophyll at a different rate, but as the chlorophyll fades, other compounds become visible changing the leaves from green to yellow, gold, rust, red and brown.

To reduce watering costs for your garden, run the downspouts from your gutters into rain barrels that have a tap or spigot on the bottom. Attach a drip hose to the tap and run it through the garden.

When planting a new tree, consider its proximity to the foundation to your home. If it must be close, ask the tree service to install a root barrier to protect the foundation.

Thinking of planting a vegetable garden? Here's a helpful tip: a garden that is 16’ x 10’ in size can produce enough food to feed a family of four for a summer. Time to get digging!

The first hand-held, gas-powered leaf blower was released in 1978, and this device began to revolutionize leaf removal. By 1985, blower had gained sufficient popularity that more than 75,000 backpack units were sold, and by 1997, more than 1 million blowers were in use.

Do you know that sprinkling baking soda regularly into the soil of your plant can help reduce acidity, which helps sweeten up your crop? So, if you want to grow sweeter tomatoes, you can try this trick!

Trees provide beauty to the landscape and protect homes from heat and sunlight. Did you know that in urban areas, the presence of trees can also muffle street noises and other intrusive sounds, too?

Bet you didn't know! Gardening, your favorite outdoor activity and green thumb adventure, scored a place on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's recommendation list for battling high blood pressure.

The word “leaf” evolved from the Indo-European base word, leubh, meaning to peel or pull off, which makes sense. Since the dawn of time, humans have plucked leaves for food and other uses, and in fall, leaves voluntarily peel themselves from plants and trees.

The physical workout associated with gardening can help lower the risk of developing dementia. Two studies concluded that those who gardened regularly had a 36% and 47% lower risk of dementia than non-gardeners, even when considering other health factors.

Buttress roots spread out widely on the surface of the ground and some have sinker roots that descend vertically away from the trunk. Buttress roots provide almost 6 times more anchorage than lateral roots of similar sized un-buttressed trees.

You have a choice of using either organic or inorganic mulch in your garden. Inorganic mulch is rock, gravel, or stone and delivers a different result than organic mulch, which usually consists of chipped or shredded trees, bark, or other plant matter.

Many trees produce carotenoids, a yellow-orange compound that accumulates in the leaves, and it’s this compound that creates the distinctive yellow, gold and orange shades found in aspens, birches, buckeyes, hickories, Norway maples and yellow poplars.

“It was the flower that first ushered the idea of beauty into the world the moment, long ago, when floral attraction emerged as an evolutionary strategy.” Michael Pollan, American Author

Did you know that pruning is really the best preventative maintenance that a young tree can receive? Pruning is critical for newly planted trees in order to train and encourage them to develop a strong, robust structure.