Our Lawn Care & Landscaping Blog

Welcome to our blog, where we share expert tips, seasonal advice, and landscaping ideas to help your yard thrive. From practical maintenance guidance to creative design inspiration, our posts make it easy to keep your outdoor spaces healthy and beautiful. Explore our articles and discover how to make every lawn a cut above the rest.

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How to Make the Most of Your Mowing: Lawn Cutting Tips and Tricks

Maintaining a healthy lawn starts with proper mowing. While it might seem like a simple task, how and when you mow can make a big difference in the overall look and health of your yard. Whether you’re focused on curb appeal or simply want a more efficient strategy, these tips and techniques will help you get the most out of your mowing routine.

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Fall Leaf Removal Tips

As the vibrant colors of autumn start to fade and the leaves begin to blanket your yard, one question arises: how do you keep up? This blog is here to help you tackle the season with ease. We’ll break down why leaf removal matters, when to get it done, and the most effective ways to do it.

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Give Your Lawn A Helping Hand This Spring With Aeration

In just a month or so, the ground will begin to thaw, the days will get longer, and the grass will start greening up. If you’d like to help that greening up process along, there’s a treatment you can have done. Spring aeration is a great way to loosen up hardened soil and increase the flow of water and nutrients into your soil – before the peak heat of summer comes.

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How You Benefit From Custom Landscaping Service

Is your yard not quite how you’d imagine it should look? Consider custom landscaping. Aside from the obvious benefit of having the yard of your dreams, there are many additional perks as well. Keep reading to discover why you should opt for custom landscaping this year.

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Why You Should Leave Mowing To Lawn Care Professionals

Mowing may seem like a mundane chore. And in many ways, it is. We can slip on a pair of headphones and zone out as we traipse back and forth over the grass. There’s a lot more to mowing than you may think, however. In fact, lawn mowing habits can set the stage for your lawn to be vibrant and green or burnt-out all season long.

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Choose Aeration and Overseeding for Your Fall Lawn Care

The warm Delaware summer never fails to leave us feeling a little happy that fall and winter are here to stay for a while. Our outdoor spaces have served us well over the warm season and they deserve to have us treat them well too.

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How To Decide If Sod Or Seeding Is The Best Choice For Your Lawn

Seeding or sod – those are your choices when it’s time to rejuvenate your lawn or start over entirely with new turf. But how can you know which is the best option for your yard? Each choice indeed comes with different pros and cons, which is why we’ve compiled a list to help you decide.

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Four Benefits of Mulching Your Delaware Lawn

Spring is here in Delaware, and most of us have started planting our gardens and working outside. May is the perfect time to open up the shed, break out the tools and get your landscape ready for summer. But don’t forget to add on the mulch.

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Protect Your Delaware Yard from Summer Weeds

It’s summer in Delaware, and that means late nights around the campfire, backyard barbeques, and fun with the family outside. The last thing you should have to worry about is weeds popping up and ruining the look of your yard.

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Benefits of Sod Installation For Delaware Home and Business Owners

Here in Delaware, we love to play on our lush, green lawns. But maybe you do not have a lawn yet because you are building a new house or maybe you aren’t happy with your existing grass type and want to start from scratch.

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Stones vs Mulch: How to Tell Which Is Right for Your Yard

We all know the benefits of mulching: better moisture for the soil, protection from weed growth, and temperature regulation. However, mulch eventually breaks down with time and needs to be replenished. Thankfully, there’s a longer-lasting alternative that many homeowners are using: landscaping stones.

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9 Benefits Of A Spring Yard Cleanup

Ah, spring! Warmer weather and more daylight hours are fast approaching. March is the time when many people embark on the annual deep-cleaning of their home. This could take the form of decluttering Marie Kondo-style or going over everything with the vacuum twice. This year, why not add “spring yard clean-up” to your spring cleaning regimen?

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Common Lawn Diseases that Affect Your Delaware Lawn

We face major challenges when planting grass seed. Our winters are too cold for warm-season grasses and our summers are too warm for cool-season grasses, which means most of us have a blend of both. This opens up our lawn to a variety of problems and diseases, some of which can completely destroy an entire yard.

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Watch Out for These Six Dangerous Plants in the Wilmington Area

Summer in the Wilmington, Delaware area always has plenty to do. Whether you’re taking a drive to the beach, walking along the Christina River, hiking in one of our beautiful state parks, or working out back in your yard, there is plenty to keep busy with. But beware, there is danger lurking everywhere.

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