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• Category: Beneficial Insects
  • The Art of Zen and Organic Lawn Maintenance
  • Soil Creature Feature: Proturan
  • Wasps are Here…Avoid the Spring Sting!
  • Want your lush lawn back? Might be time to aerate.
  • Wheel bugs: The Terminator of the Garden!
  • Happy Herps Mean You Have a Healthy, Balanced Landscape
  • Worm Castings: Why you need them in your soil!
  • Soil Creature Feature: Nematodes: Good or Bad?
  • What is Conservation Landscaping?
  • Is Crape Myrtle Scale Attacking Your Trees?
  • Giant Swallowtail Could Be Munching on Your Citrus!
  • Don’t squish this critter! White Lined Sphinx Moth Larvae
  • Lawn Spotlight: St. Augustine Grass
• Category: Chemicals
  • Grubs: Friend or Foe?
  • New Year’s Resolutions? Add Healthy Soil to the List!
  • How do chemical treatments affect your lawn?
  • OOPS! I sprayed my lawn with Roundup. Now what?
  • Chemical Lawn Treatments: Are they bad for you?
  • Go Barefoot in Your Lawn in 2015!
  • Green Gone Wrong: What happens when you overseed with Ryegrass?
  • Organic Gardens Bear Fruit!
  • Grub Season is HERE!
  • Want a Holistic Lifestyle? Don’t Forget the Landscape!
  • What is Soil Without Microbes?
  • Earthworms: Powerhouse of Healthy Soil
  • The Organic Myth: Organics are too Expensive & Time Consuming
  • Roundup Damage!
• Category: Common Weeds
  • Wild Carrot, Queen Anne’s Lace
  • Virginia Creeper
  • Nutsedge
  • Common Dandelion
  • Common Ragweed
  • Giant Ragweed
  • Horseherb
  • Poison Ivy
  • Wild Purslane
  • Bindweed, Wild Morning Glory
  • Tenpetal Anemone
  • Sumac
  • Yellow Woodsorrel
  • Annual Bluegrass
  • Henbit Weed
  • Crabgrass
  • Pennywort
  • Dichondra, Ponysfoot
• Category: Community
  • Should You Leave the Leaves?
  • Considering St. Augustine grass? Think again….
  • The Myth & Misconception of the Well-Kept Lawn
  • Are you a Healthy Soil Embassador? 10 Awesome Soil Facts
  • Is Your Lawn Helping or Hurting the Environment?
  • Lawn versus Trees: Throwing shade
  • Too Much Stuff? Give the Gift of Time Instead.
  • Can You Practice Permaculture in the City?
  • What Are Your Green Resolutions for 2015?
  • Euonymous Scale on my shrubs!
  • Plant Fall Veggies in your Organic Garden!
  • Save Water: Keep the Lawn Mowed High in Summer!
  • Watering Your Lawn Without Breaking the Law!
  • Tips & Ideas: Recycle & Salvage for the Garden!
  • Why Do Americans Love Their Yards?
  • We Love the Katy Trail!
• Category: Compost
  • Thinking of Overseeding? Consider These 3 Things First
  • Poop or no poop? Which poop can you compost?
  • Why is Liquid Compost Extract So Special?
  • Worm Castings: Garden Gold
  • Compost at Home: Reduce Waste. Improve Soil.
  • Fall Pest Alert: Are Armyworms Marching Through Your Lawn?
  • The difference between fertilizer and compost
  • Is it safe to fertilize my lawn and landscape in winter?
  • Is Your St. Augustine Turning Yellow? It could be Chlorosis.
  • Love your dog? Should You Worry About Synthetic Lawn Fertilizers?
  • Too Much Mulch: It Can Kill Your Tree!
  • St. Augustine Suffers From Bitter Cold
  • Vermicomposting: Let Worms do the Work!
  • We’re Obsessed with Healthy Soil …
  • How to Make Your Own Compost
• Category: Diseases
  • Entomosporium Leaf Spot
  • Gray Leaf Spot
  • Rose Rosette Disease
  • Early Blight of Tomatoes
  • Fire Blight
  • Oxalis Rust
  • Powdery Mildew
  • Mushrooms in the landscape: Good or Bad?
  • Cotton Root Rot Fungal Mats
  • Cotton Root Rot
  • Take-All Root Rot: The early signs
  • Black or Sooty Mold in Turf
  • Fairy Rings
  • Take-All Root Rot
• Category: Edibles
  • Organic Indoors: We Brought a Greenhouse Inhouse!
  • What to Plant Now: Spring Vegetables in Your Organic Garden
  • What to Plant in Your Organic Garden Now? Onions!
  • Winter Pest Alert: Cabbage Loopers
• Category: Gardening & Landscaping
  • North Texas Soil Types
  • This Cold Weather Can’t Hold Us Down!
  • The Story of Fairy Ring, a not so Fairy Tale
  • It’s Getting Hot in Here!
  • You vs. Mother Nature: Who wins?
  • Plant Alert: Watch for Freeze Damage & Fungal Diseases
  • Soil Building Program: February & March in Your Landscape
  • Leaf Blowers: Is the convenience worth the risk to your soil?
  • Don’t Forget: Feed Your Trees & Shrubs in Fall
  • Rejuvenate Your Lawn This Fall
  • Is Your Lawn Dying? Grass may be the wrong choice.
  • Building a New Home? Where You Place Your Trees Affects Your Lawn.
  • Rose Rosette Disease Video
  • Holiday guests on their way? 5 Quick Tips to Tidy Up the Landscape!
  • Timely Reminder: Reduce Water in Winter
  • How Well Do You Know Your Arborist? Bad Pruning = Lost Trees!
  • Rose Rosette Disease
  • Vein Pocket Galls on Oak Trees
  • Be Fall Waterwise!
  • Have you fed your trees lately? Don’t let them starve!
  • Healthy Soil Isn’t Just for Lawns!
  • July is Smart Irrigation Month! Summer Tips to Conserve Water.
  • Nibbled Plants in the Landscape? Could Be Leaf Cutter Ants.
  • Before and After Lawn: Transition St. Augustine to Zoysia
  • Tree Decay: Are millipedes the culprit?
  • Is Your Lawn Struggling in the Shade?
  • So you have compacted soil. What now?
  • Love Your Trees! Plant Properly, Please.
  • What is the Soil Food Web?
  • Feed Your Soil Now: January is time for liquid compost extract.
  • Turn Your Cool Season Landscape into an Edible Landscape!
• Category: General
  • Simple Ways to Boost Your Curb Appeal This Spring
  • Summertime Blues: Why is my grass turning brown?
  • Winter Weather Predictions: A White or Wet Christmas?
  • The little bug that causes a BIG blow to your lawn
  • Soak, Cycle, Repeat: Diving Deeper Into Our Watering Guide
  • Attack of the Take-All
  • The Wow’s and Woe’s of Texas’ Weather Patterns
  • Did the freeze this winter give your lawn cold feet this spring?
  • Buying a home: Did you hire a landscape inspector?
  • Green Garden Resolutions for the New Year
  • 5 Maintenance Tips for a Beautiful and Healthy Lawn & Landscape
  • 5 Maintenance Tips for a Beautiful and Healthy Lawn & Landscape Maintenance
  • Give the gift of time: How about service instead of stuff this year?
  • Why Test Your Soil?
  • Aphids: They Can Invade Anytime!
  • Organics: A New Year’s Resolution
  • March: Back to life
• Category: Insects & Pests
  • Four-lined Plant Bug
  • Whiteflies
  • Pill Bug
  • Ground Pearl, Scale
  • Milkweed Assassin Bug Nymph
  • Leaf Footed Bug Eggs
  • Leafminer Damage
  • Flea Beetle Damage
  • Fall Armyworm Lawn Damage
  • Assassin Bug Nymph
  • Fall Armyworm Pupa
  • Fall Armyworm Larva
  • Fall Armyworm Moth
  • Vein Pocket Galls on Oak Trees
  • Spider Mites on Junipers
  • Euonymus scale
  • Termite Trails
  • Termites Eating Your Trees
  • Bermudagrass Scale
  • Cucumber Beetle
  • Differential Grasshopper, Yellow
  • Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle
  • Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar
  • Squash Vine Borer Moth
  • Yellow Striped Armyworm
  • Grasshopper
  • Leaf Footed Bug
  • Harlequin Bug
  • Millipedes: Friend or Foe?
  • Crape Myrtle Scale
  • White Lined Sphinx Moth Larvae
  • Leaf Cutter Ants
  • Tobacco Hornworm
  • Green Aphids
  • Wheeled Assassin Bug
  • Parasitic Wasp Eggs
  • Cranberry Rootworm Beetle
  • Fall Webworms
  • Lacebugs
  • Chinch Bug
  • Scale
  • Leaf Rollers
• Category: Irrigation
  • Irrigation Adjustment Alert!
  • Brown Patch – The Aftermath and What to Expect this Spring
  • Spring Cleaning- Landscape Edition
  • Replacing Your Lawn? 3 Favorite Varieties for North Texas
  • Grow a better lawn with the cycle-and-soak watering method.
  • Save Money & Water with a Yearly Irrigation Check
  • How Poor Irrigation Damages Your Lawn
• Category: Lawn Health
  • How Beneficial Is Organic Lawn Care?
  • Natural Fertilizer- A Few Things You Should Know
  • Five Key Reasons to Use Natural Lawn Care
  • Winter Weed Series: Henbit
  • Soil Building Program: What’s going on in your landscape
  • Soil Obsessed
  • Is Take-All Root Rot Killing Your Lawn?
  • Kirby Pierce
  • Mowing Techniques for Weed Control
  • Rose Rosette Disease: Could your roses be infected?
  • Is Take-All Root Rot Killing Your Lawn?
  • Grubs: How to manage them in an organic landscape.
  • Soil Building Program Handout
  • Watering Your Lawn in Winter
  • Guide to Overseeding with Ryegrass
  • St. Augustine Lawn Best Care Practices
  • Controlling Weeds Organically
  • What’s Harming the Bees?
  • The Importance of Organic Soil Life
  • Get a Quote
  • Spread the Green
  • Accredited Business, Better Business Bureau
  • Identification Guide
  • Liquid Compost
  • Compost Tea vs. Liquid Compost
  • Organic Insect Treatment (KSKY Radio)
  • Organic Web Worm Treatment
  • Justin Cernoch
  • Guide to Watering Your Lawn
  • Healthy Soil
  • Organic Advice
  • Soil Sampling for Organic Treatment
  • The Benefits of Organic Lawn Fertilization
  • Liquid Compost
• Category: Lawn Maintenance
  • 7 Benefits of Using Organic Fertilizers for Your Lawn
  • 5 Elements of Sustainable Gardening Practices You Should Apply
  • Weed Control Tips for your Beds and Garden
  • What’s Going On in Your Pre-Spring Lawn
  • Control Your Weeds Before They Control You!
  • There are mushrooms in my lawn; should I be worried?
  • How Should You Water Your Winter Lawn?
  • Leave the leaves
  • To overseed Your lawn…or Not
  • Mow Smart this Fall for a Great Looking Lawn
  • What Summer Rains Mean for Your Fall Lawn
  • Is Your Patchy Lawn in Need of Repair?
  • Healthy Lawn: Don’t Leave Out these Nutrients!
  • Is Your Summer Lawn Stressed Out?
  • Lawn Care Tips for First Time Home Buyers
  • Disease Alert: Is Your Lawn Moldy?
  • Get the Most Out of Your Mower!
  • Organic Lawn Tip: A Warm Winter Means We’re Fertilizing Early!
  • Brown Patch Alert in Spring Lawns
  • When was the last time you watered your lawn?
  • Get a jump on your organic spring lawn care: Don’t skip soil treatments.
  • Does Warm Winter Weather Harm Your Lawn?
  • How to Reduce Winter Cold Damage to Your Lawn
  • Healthy Spring Lawns Start With Good Winter Maintenance
  • Want a Gorgeous Lawn? Don’t Skip Treatments!
  • How-To: Watering your lawn through winter
  • Remedy the Effects of Soil Compaction on Your Lawn
  • Good landscape maintenance will keep your lawn and garden healthy through winter.
  • Want a Beautiful Landscape? Good Maintenance is the Key.
  • Thatch: Is it hurting your lawn?
  • Overseeding Your Lawn: The Pros and Cons
  • Fall Lawn Disease Alert: Brown Patch is Back!
  • Can I Grow a Lawn in Shade?
  • Does My Lawn Still Need Water in Fall & Winter?
  • Looking to hire an organic lawn company? Ask these 4 questions first.
  • Gray Leaf Spot is Rotting Your Lawn
  • Help! My grass is turning yellow!
  • Catching Up From Spring Storms
  • Did You Know You Can Control Spring Weeds with Proper Mowing?
  • Did you know you can Control Spring Weeds with Proper Mowing?
  • Is Take-All Root Rot Killing Your Lawn?
  • Weed Alert: Annual Bluegrass
  • In the Weeds? Learn why some weeds invade your lawn and why you should tolerate some of them!
  • Pest Alert: Armyworms May be Marching Across Your Lawn!
  • What is Thatch?
  • Tough Turf Spotlight: Buffalo Grass
  • Avoid Spring Weeds with Fall Lawn Care!
  • Leaf Spots in Your Lawn? Could Be Gray Leaf Spot Disease!
  • Lawn Getting too Much Shade? See What Happens!
  • Take-All Root Rot: A Lawn Killer!
  • Want a Lush Lawn? Time to Fertilize!
  • What are those creepy things in my lawn? Grubs!
  • Over-mowing: Are You Loving Your Lawn Too Much?
  • Is your lawn suffering? It could be soil compaction.
  • Want to Save Water This Summer?
  • Lawn Weed Alert: Rescuegrass
  • Soil Microbes are Essential to Plant Health!
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi: Why They are Important in Your Soil
  • Winter Lawn Care Tips
  • Does Cold Weather Damage Lawns?
  • America Recycles Day is tomorrow: How Green Are You?
  • Fall Weed Alert: Large Leaf Pennywort, Dollarweed
  • Should You Over-Seed Your Lawn?
  • Brown Patch Disease in Lawns
  • The Merits of Proper Mowing
  • Fall Lawn Fertilization
  • Fall Lawn Care Tips
  • Organics are in the Air: What’s that smell?
  • Got Weeds? Proper Lawn Care Now Prevents Weeds Next Spring
  • How Leaf Blowers Destroy Your Topsoil!
  • Rebuild Your Soil with Beneficial Microbes and Mycorrhizal Fungi
  • Shade Trees are Tough on Lawns
  • Weeds: Soil Health Indicators
  • How Do Pre-Emergents Damage Your Lawn?
  • How Do We Make Liquid Compost Extract?
  • Chinch Bugs: Wonder what they look like?
  • Video: Take All Root Rot
  • St. Augustine Roots Grown in Aquaponics System
  • Black Mold in St. Augustine Lawn
  • Aquaponics at Soils Alive
  • Stage 3 Water Restrictions in North Texas
  • George W. Bush Presidential Center Landscape
  • Chinch Bug Damage in Lawns
  • Video: Liquid Compost
  • Fairy Rings in Your Lawn!
  • Core Aeration for Texas Lawns
• Category: Maintenance
  • Lawn Damage From Overseeding
  • Shade & Soil Compaction: Lawn Killers
  • Lawn Struggling in Too Much Shade
  • Tree Decay
  • Growing Grass in Shade
  • Roundup Damage
  • Mulch Around Trees
  • Irrigation Waste
• Category: News
  • Benefits of Using Organic Fertilizers For Your Lawn
• Category: Organics
  • How Does Dry Molasses Help Your Lawn?
  • Feeling stressed? Get your hands dirty!
  • Organics: Worth the Wait
  • Understanding Plant Nutrients: Part 2
  • Patience Grasshopper…Give Organics Time.
  • Fall is for Tree Fertilization
  • Could you be damaging your soil? Here’s how to heal it.
  • Nutrients Your Soil Needs: Keep a happy lawn.
  • Time to feed the trees!
  • What’s in my soil? The top 3 macronutrients for healthy plants.
  • Humic Acid: What does it do for your lawn?
  • So, What IS Microbial & Mycorrhizal Inoculation?
  • What’s on Your Christmas Gift List? Organics!
  • Do you have Dollar Spot in your lawn?
  • Feed Yourself! Growing Organic Greens in Your Organic Landscape
  • Fall Webworms in Your Trees
  • Lacebugs Have Arrived!
  • Scale on Nandina
  • Parasitic Wasps: Nature’s biological control
  • Organic Fire Ant Control
  • Leaf Rollers on Vinca: Time to Treat!
• Category: Pests & Diseases
  • Slug It to ‘em for Eating Your Plants!
  • Entomosporium Leaf Spot Disease is on the Rise!
  • Chinch Bug Alert!
  • Fall Webworms are Attacking Trees
  • Summer Pest Alert: Are Chinch Bugs Damaging Your St. Augustine Lawn?
  • Bag those Bagworms!
  • What’s wrong with my Indian Hawthorn Shrubs? Could be Entomosporium Leaf Spot.
  • Fire Ants: Avoid the Burn!
  • Creature Feature: Pill Bugs. Garden pests or heroes?
  • How Do You Know Your Tree is Rotting?
  • Are Four-Lined Plant Bugs Attacking Your Plants?
  • Pest Alert: Aphids are invading!
  • Is your garden being slimed by slugs?
  • Creepy White Growth on Your Crape Myrtle?
  • Watering Lawns: Rain reminder!
  • Assassin Bugs: Good or Bad?
  • The Invasion of the Stink Bugs!
  • How too much mulch can kill your tree
  • What’s Eating My Hollies?
  • Got Grubs?
  • Take All Root Rot in St. Augustine Lawns
• Category: Pets
• Category: Soil
  • Want Healthy Soil? Cover it Up!
  • Lawn turning yellow? Nutrient deficiencies explained. Part 1
  • Want a More Beautiful Landscape? Start With the Soil.
  • Reduce Soil Erosion by Boosting Soil Health
  • How Well do You Know Your Soil?
  • 10 Steps to Prepare Your Soil for Sodding a New Lawn
  • Rain & Flooding Could Be Suffocating Your Lawn
  • Soil Creature Feature: Enchytraeid
  • 2015 is the International Year of Soil
• Category: Turf
  • Could it be time to replace your lawn?
• Category: Water Conservation
  • Celebrate Smart Irrigation Month in July with these Water Saving Tips
  • Don’t Stop Watering in Summer!
  • Wondering About Water? Know Your City’s Watering Restrictions.
  • I should stop watering my lawn in winter, right?
  • Irrigation Waste: Where is your water going?
• Category: Watering
  • Get Your Irrigation in Check!
• Category: Weeds
  • Sick of Landscape Weeds? We Offer Some Weed Wisdom.
  • The Weeds are Out of Control! Should You Install Weedblock?
  • Hate Weeds? Healthy Soil Keeps Weeds in Check
  • Hate spring weeds? Mow them now!
  • Weed Alert: Take Action Now to Prevent a Big Boom of Spring Weeds
  • Hate Spring Weeds? How to Manage Them Now.
  • That Nasty Nutsedge
  • Weed Alert: Crabgrass
  • Henbit Weed in Lawns