Creating the ideal hardscape for your business can be intimidating–especially when you live in Minnesota where the weather can be volatile from season-to-season. Whether you’re completely redesigning your landscaping, or just trying to spruce things up, here are a few...

Before we get ahead of ourselves and into the checklist, it’s important to determine whether mother nature is as ready as we are for your irrigation system. Thankfully, this is easily done by conducting a simple shovel test. Dig about a foot into the ground. If the...

Our lawns are our home’s greatest accessory. Whether you live in a mansion or a modest house, your home will always look better when it’s surrounded by lush, green grass. We’ve already detailed the most likely destructors to your lawn in the first part of this series,...

Winter might seem like a strange time to consider the health of your lawn, but protecting your lawn amongst the colder months can help ensure it sprouts quickly and maintains its vibrant green throughout the summer. There are multiple elements to caring for your lawn...

Thinking about gardening during Minnesota’s cold, snowy winters might seem like a silly concept, but spring, the time when our gardens begin their growth, is fast approaching. Whether we have six more weeks of winter of six more weeks till spring, winter’s time is...

Ice may seem like an unavoidable part of winter, but if a proper de-icing product is used, steps and sidewalks can stay ice-free all winter long, even throughout Minnesota’s vicious winters. However, as we’ve discussed in a previous blog, de-icing salt, the...

As Central Minnesotans, we are intimately familiar with winter. Whether it is cozying in under our hand-me-down quilt, putting on more layers of clothes than our closets can handle, or making sure our sidewalks and walkways are covered in a thick glaze of salt. But...

Anyone living in Minnesota for more than a year has seen the effects of the seasons on our vegetation. Minnesota goes from being a lush, green summer landscape to a bleak, white winter tundra. These changes affect far more than just the way our world looks; it seems...

As we settle into the colder months, homeowners’ attentions shift from landscaping to other home maintenance tasks—like the snow-covered driveway just outside. It’s important to keep your driveways and walkways clear in the winter. Yes, it’s a matter of safety, but...

By this time of year, your commercial parking lot is likely already covered in a layer of snow and ice, making it difficult for your customers to navigate. If you’re regretting not restriping your parking lot before winter, you’re not alone. Restriping can’t be done...