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With the deep snow cover this year, we are seeing a lot of damage from rabbits, voles, and mice. In the summer they will usually eatmore succulent food such as grasses and herbs, and of course just about anything in your garden. The deep snow we had denied the rabbits of their usual food sources, . . . → Read More: Rodent damage on trees and shrubs First stages of the walkway leading from the steps to the patio Many of our clients have walkout basements. Many of them will also have an overhead deck or sunporch above them. The space under the deck is more often than not a dark, empty, wasted space that no one uses, or is an . . . → Read More: Improve your basement walkout with a paver patio
Minnesota’s winters can be really tough on landscape plants. The combination of cold temperatures, winter sun, and drying winds can damage or even kill buds, bark, roots. Hungry mice and rabbits can nibble away at bark and branches, causing severe damage or even death. In addition, evergreens, can suffer from winter . . . → Read More: Winter burn on evergreens  Comments are closed  News  advice, burlap, burn, evergreens, minnesota, needles, pine, planting, prevention, trees, winter, winterburn This is the time of year that I get a lot of calls from people asking about water problems in their basements. Part of the issue can be that the ground around their home has started to thaw out, while the ground further from the home is frozen. If the the lawn around home . . . → Read More: Keep Water Out of Your Basement An appetizer before lunch October: You’ve done your research, picked out just the right varieties with the proper heights and colors and now you’re heading home with 350 tulip bulbs, a big sack of bone meal, a couple of bales of peat moss and a brand new bulb planter. You’ve already taken a whole day to till up the garden. . . . → Read More: Home Remedies: Keep those pesky rabbits and squirrels out of your garden Farmer's Almanac, 1883 Farmer’s Almanac, has always been known for its long range forecasts. But it also contains a lot of other information, such as gardening tips, tide tables, moon phases, astronomy and articles on farming. It has been around for over 225 years, making it the longest running periodical ever. You can . . . → Read More: Farmer’s Almanac: Weather predictions for 2011 Comments are closed ezine, News, Northfield 2011, doug, farmer's almanac, grove, landscaping, minnesota, predictions, weather Here’s a photo of our new building. Details in my March blog post. (This blog post is really an excuse to test of blogging via email. Apologies for the false alarm!) Posted via email from grovelandscaping’s posterous OUT WITH THE OLD……. This season will marks the first full year in our new shop. We started the process last summer with the demolition of the old building on Howard #3. After 15 years in the old wooden quonset, which was constructed in the 1940′s, the time finally came . . . → Read More: We’re expanding! I would never believe it if I hadn’t seen it (or should I say “If we wouldn’t have done it with our own two hands!”) The picture you are looking at is from the project in southern Northfield that I started to describe to you last week, and yes, that is shredded bark . . . → Read More: Watering a driveway Bachman’s Spring Open House A while back Jason, John and I took a short trip up to Bachman’s Cedar Acres site to attend their Spring open house for landscape contractors and gardeners. There were some interesting products and seminars. Of special interest in the new products was a pre-assembled bubbling rock. . . . → Read More: Bachman’s Spring Open House |
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