From maintenance tips to information on how you can keep your yard looking healthy and green, we’re here to help.
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Should I mulch or bag my grass clippings?
Bag! Lawns in Manitoba grow far too quickly to mulch effectively. Mulching too much grass too quickly can lead to a quick build-up of thatch that will in turn, make your lawn more susceptible to stress, disease, and insect infestations.
I simply can’t afford the new, higher costs of lawn care programs. Is there anything else I can do to keep my weeds down?
Absolutely. Weeds love a weak or thin spot in your lawn and move in before you know it. The best defense is a good offence. Here’s how to strengthen your lawn making it thicker and more resilient over time, effectively crowding weeds out:
My lawn was ravaged by Chinch Bugs last summer. Will insecticides be banned as well?
Chinch bugs are the most devastating affliction to a lawn. The damage they cause is abrupt, ferocious, and permanent. Even worse, their damage continues, even after they are eradicated, as the poison they have injected into the lawn continues to do its damage. As if this weren’t enough, Chinch bugs also lay eggs that will over winter and hatch next season. But protecting your lawn isn’t as hard as you might expect. All you need to do is keep your lawn watered when conditions become hot or dry. Chinch bugs only afflict full-sun, high and dry areas of the lawn. Keeping your lawn well watered will deter them. Even as they hatch, they will move away from moist lawns and towards neighbouring drier lawns.
The motor on my lawn mower died. Is there somewhere I can take it to have it recycled?
All too often I hear people say, “My lawn mower died. I guess I need to get a new one.” Every year, we pull out our lawn mowers, change the spark plug, the air filter, and the fuel filter. But when the motor dies, most people seem to think they need to throw away the whole machine. Pulling the motor off your old mower and putting a new one on is not that difficult although you may want to get a small engine shop to insure all the belts, levers, and attachments are removed and reinstalled correctly. A replacement motor for most lawn mowers can be bought for about $200.00. So before you spend several hundred dollars on a new lawn mower, consider spending a couple hundred on a new motor. If your lawn mower is finished, (or any other piece of lawn or garden equipment) you can bring it…
