The New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association (NJLCA) is a proven resource to the landscape contractor, green industry service provider and supplier as well as the consumer. The following excerpt article is taken from the recently published SPRING 2018 edition of their magazine.
By definition, lawn thatch is the layer of mainly dead turfgrass tissue lying between the green vegetation of the grass above and the root system and soil below. This layer, if it becomes too thick (1/2 inch or more), is bad for your grass and must be removed to maintain lawn health.
Lincoln Landscaping of Franklin Lakes is pleased and honored to be able to share the following announcement by Chatham Township regarding the transition to a 100% organic property management program. Chatham Township is planning on using organic lawn care on its recreational fields and at the Colony Pool Club this summer, Mayor Curt Ritter announced on Tuesday.
A beautiful woodland wildflower that has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion.
Arbor Day is one of my favorite days of the year. Why? Because it celebrates trees and trees fascinate me. They always have. I remember as a young lad lying on the ground beneath them gazing up into the canopy of lush green and thinking “trees provide wildlife with shelter, trees produce edible fruits and nuts that are so delicious, trees give us oxygen to breathe – so why do we cut so many of them down?”
With Arbor Day on the approach, there is no better time to start looking for native trees and shrubs to plant to improve your property and give you all the benefits that come with trees and shrubs. Planting trees each arbor day can have a positive effect on the environment and can be a fun, simple, learning experience if you have never planted a tree. If you're searching for a tree to plant this Arbor Day, search no more, as the Eastern Redcedar is a great shade loving cone shaped tree that is native to the East coast and provide your yard with aromatic needles.
Although we hear about the benefits of mulch, over-mulching is the most destructive practice in the landscape today. The practice of mulch volcanoes, large mounds of mulch around your trees and shrubs is highly destructive. In ten years most trees with these volcanoes of mulch, encounter a slow and painful death for the plant.