Are you starting this year with a handful of New Year’s Resolutions that are focused on home improvement? With a new year in full effect, now’s as good a time as ever to start tackling new projects and making those much needed (yet often neglected) improvements to your home. Whether you’re planning on finally decluttering your garage, reorganizing your master closet or re-sodding your lawn don’t wait until the spring to get started!

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2017 has started out nicely with some timely rainfalls to keep most of you from having to water your lawn. It has also helped us move closer to getting out of the drought we’ve been suffering from for the last few years. The winter storms are helping us replenish our water supplies but they’re also helping germinate all of those of those summer annual weeds in the soil. The good news is weeds are relatively easy to contain. There are some types such as annual bluegrass, crabgrass, and nutsedge that are a little more complicated but timing pre-emergent herbicide applications can save you a lot of headaches with weed control. In this blog I will go over various weeds and some ways to control them as well as discuss herbicide timing.

Weed control management is a function of several different factors but some of the things you can do to keep your lawn healthy are maintain the proper mowing height, don’t overwater your lawn, fertilize monthly, and aerate the turf when the soil becomes compacted. These items right here can be the difference between weeds slowly emerging in your lawn and taking over your lawn. A healthy lawn will push out weeds and keep them to a minimum. If you have very few weeds emerge during the year chemical application is unnecessary and weeds can be pulled by hand as they appear.

Crabgrass

Nutsedge

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Have you contemplated the possibility of replacing your natural turfgrass lawn with artificial turf? You may think it’s the “green” thing to do, but you may be surprised to know the dangers of artificial turf. At West Coast Turf/Western Sod we feel strongly about the benefits of Arizona natural sod over artificial turf. Not only is natural turfgrass sod aesthetically more beautiful, a grass lawn benefits the environment.

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