I Was Expecting More Dartmouth Green

According to Wikipedia: Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation or intensity) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. 

While Wikipedia is really the expert on, well, nothing. For our purposes their blurb (above) on the different variations in the color green serve our needs today. Because we are in the business of green, green landscapes that is. And while we do profess to be the expert in the different hues around your home, we don't pretend to be magicians. What I mean by that is, there are influences that are going to affect your lawns, trees, and shrubs that we can't control 100%. We can help mitigate these issues but sometimes we can't solve them until the influences change.

Mother nature can be cruel and like most lovely ladies she holds all the cards and she plays them like she's always holding pocket aces even though she probably has a 2/7 off suit. My analogy is quickly breaking down so I'll get to the point. If mother nature wants to win, she wins, period. A thirty degree temperature swing within a week can be seriously damaging to lawns and trees. Especially when those temperatures peak in the high nineties or low one hundreds. Our services, proper watering, and mowing will help but to what degree is going to vary quite a bit.

My hope is that this doesn't sound like a cop out for bad service. I assure you it's not. We take pride in our work, we believe that we're the best at what we do and we don't like it when control is taken away from us. But sometimes it is. She does that.

We've seen quite a few lawns that normally have that deep, rich green color that...well.... aren't nearly as deep, rich, and green as we like them. We hate to say there is nothing we can do about it but on some level there isn't. We can only exercise best practices with your fertilizer and weed control and ask you to do the same with watering and mowing. Our first video tutorial on proper mowing should be posted on the website by the end of the week, and one on proper watering will follow shortly.

In a nut shell here's our advice: water 5-6 days per week for twenty minutes. Most of the time our rains storms don't provide enough water for your lawn. Mow at a height of 3-3.5 inches and keep your blade sharp. The extra height will help against drought stress and the sharp blade will insure you are cutting and not tearing the grass blade which in turn will also protect against drought stress. Do this and it will give us the best chance at minimizing mother nature's musings at least until she's in a better mood. Once the weather turns and the temperature is consistently in the seventies and eighties we should start to see the turf and trees recover as long as your watering and mowing correctly.

Remember, if you have any questions please call us at 1-800-LAWNCARE or contact us at livingwaterspray.com.