Thank you!

I appreciate you welcoming me into your home to talk about your lawncare needs with this newsletter. How about the weather here the first 18 days of March? The ground is starting to dry out finally, and the temperatures are just about normal which isn’t normal at all for us in Morgantown.

That has allowed a very normal bloom sequence. So far, I have seen snow drops, daffodils, crocus, and yesterday forsythia. Last year everything bloomed at once so it was hard to take it all in. Not this year so far at least.

I was asked to talk about ornamental grasses. If you have any of the tall, brown grasses growing in your lawn now is the time to get them cut down. You can see a video on this on the web site to explain the how, but the why is that they will fall apart and become a massive blowing clean up problem if not taken down before they start to regrow.

You might ask why it's important not only for the plants in your landscape to have a corrected pH, but the soil’s biological community. The biologicals exist to help the plant make nutrients available so even if nutrients are in the feeding zone if that soil is not biologically active, what is available to the plants if very limited. It's kind of like when we eat combining bread with peanut butter and the nutrient value to us is better than eating both separately at sequenced intervals.

Plants can only be as healthy as the soil that they grow in. That’s why we treat your landscape from the soil up. When you have healthy soil, our job is easy.

When should you do your first mowing? As long as you keep your mower set to 3.5 inches it really is when you want to mow. The grass grows from the soil up so you will cut away the old brown, not turn the old brown green. We often do a spring cleanup blowing the leaves into the turf areas and mulching things up. I think it looks like we will start mowing the last week of March on some lawns but that first week of April should see us all mowing. That is one of springs special gifts, the first smells of fresh cut grass.

See you soon in your lawn.

Jay Benson 304-376-7090

Thank you!
I appreciate you welcoming me into your home to talk about your lawncare needs with this newsletter.
How about the weather here the first 18 days of March? The ground is starting to dry out finally, and
the temperatures are just about normal which isn’t normal at all for us in
Morgantown.
That has allowed a very normal bloom sequence. So far, I have seen snow
drops, daffodils, crocus, and yesterday forsythia. Last year everything
bloomed at once so it was hard to take it all in. Not this year so far at least.
I was asked to talk about ornamental grasses. If you have any of the tall,
brown grasses growing in your lawn now is the time to get them cut down.
You can see a video on this on the web site to explain the how, but the why
is that they will fall apart and become a massive blowing clean up problem
if not taken down before they start to regrow.
You might ask why it's important not only for the plants in your landscape
to have a corrected pH, but the soil’s biological community. The biologicals
exist to help the plant make nutrients available so even if nutrients are in
the feeding zone if that soil is not biologically active, what is available to the
plants if very limited. It's kind of like when we eat combining bread with peanut butter and the nutrient
value to us is better than eating both separately at sequenced intervals.
Plants can only be as healthy as the soil that they grow in. That’s why we treat your landscape from the
soil up. When you have healthy soil, our job is easy.
When should you do your first mowing? As long as you keep your mower set to 3.5 inches it really is
when you want to mow. The grass grows from the soil up so you will cut away the old brown, not turn
the old brown green. We often do a spring cleanup blowing the leaves into the turf areas and mulching
things up. I think it looks like we will start mowing the last week of March on some lawns but that first
week of April should see us all mowing. That is one of springs special gifts, the first smells of fresh cut
grass.
See you soon in your lawn.

Jay Benson 304-376-7090