What Types of Trees Bring Birds To Your Yard?

What Types of Trees Bring Birds To Your Yard?

Bird watchers and tree huggers alike will be interested in today’s question: Which trees should you plant if you want to attract birds to your yard? Keep reading to get some insight into this age-old question. Trees are better than no trees: While specific trees are...
The Complete Guide to Landscape Grading

The Complete Guide to Landscape Grading

The grading of your property is likely not an issue that you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, but if it’s not done correctly, you are putting yourself at risk of very expensive and extensive damage to your home and property. What is grading? In the most simple...
Choosing the Right Sod for Your Yard

Choosing the Right Sod for Your Yard

Installing sod is a proven way of going quickly from having no grass to having a beautiful lawn. Sod can be installed over an entire lawn, saving you the time it takes for grass seed to sprout and grow, and can also be applied to a smaller area to fill-in a grassless...
The Real Scoop on When and How To Water Your Lawn

The Real Scoop on When and How To Water Your Lawn

The average American homeowner does not think too much about watering their lawn. They just pull out a house or turn on a sprinkler system at random times and for random amounts of time with random amounts of water. But that’s a recipe for an unhealthy lawn. Here are...
How To Protect Your Trees From Summer

How To Protect Your Trees From Summer

If you love your trees, and all the shade, fruit and beauty they provide, you need to protect them. And summer is actually the season trees are most vulnerable, with extreme heat, insects and funguses all on the march. Thankfully, a few basics can go a long way in...
Plants For Your Lawn That Can Keep Mosquitos Away

Plants For Your Lawn That Can Keep Mosquitos Away

The warmer months approach are a great time to enjoy your property, but sometimes insects — particularly mosquitoes — show up and ruin the fun. And in Indiana, we definitely are known to have some big, mean mosquitoes.  While it may not be your first thought on...
Tips for Successfully Planting Grass Seed

Tips for Successfully Planting Grass Seed

It’s the worst. You step outside to enjoy the beauty of your backyard, and bam — a grassless, bald patch in the middle of your lawn. This can be caused by a whole host of potential culprits, and figuring out how to regrow grass in that bald spot may involve doing some...