Lawn Care Blog
Great Lawns Have Professional Lawn Care
Arbor-Nomics exists to take care of your lawn so you don’t have to. Your home is probably the most important investment you’ll ever make. Inside and out, we know you’ve taken great care to make sure your house feels like home. You’ve taken the time to find just the right paint color for the kitchen. You’ve spent hours shopping for just the right furniture. But could your outside be better?…
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs That Thrive During Winter
Many homeowners who enjoy cultivating a colorful landscape find winter discouraging. Leaves can take on a dazzling array of hues in the autumn, but the period before they fall is never long enough to fully appreciate their beauty. Of course, evergreens continue to report for duty year-round, ensuring bright green highlights even on dull and cloudy days. Arbor-Nomics is primarily a lawn care company, but we also look after ornamental trees…
Making the Most of Your Fall Harvest
For many of us, the words “fall harvest” induce visions of all the delicious dishes that can be made from the season’s crops. When the menu can include turnips, radishes, radicchio, peas, parsnips, lettuce, kohlrabi, kale, green onions, collards, celeriac (celery root), cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, beets, and too many varieties of beans to count, there’s a lot to look forward to. However, it is easy to forget that another great use…
How Frost Can Affect Your Yard
Frost can appear on many types of surfaces as objects reach the freezing point of water or drop below it. The moisture that we call morning dew forms as water vapor in the air and turns into a liquid as it cools. If conditions are cold enough, that liquid will freeze, becoming frost. The result can be a beautiful sight on a fall morning, but it’s important to remember that frost poses a…
Why Fall Lawn Treatments Are So Important
When summer ends and temperatures start to fall, many people allow the subject of their yard to start sliding down their list of priorities. But nature takes a longer view, and the cyclical nature of plant life means that the care that a yard receives in autumn has a disproportionate impact on its health and resilience the following spring. Consistent treatments year-round by a professional lawn care company like Arbor-Nomics will pay…
Caring For Cool-Season Fescue Lawns This Fall
Fescue grass is among the three most popular grass varieties in the metro Atlanta area. As the only cool-season species in that group, it requires a different care regimen and schedule than its warm-season counterparts. In this post, we’ll discuss the steps that both you and your lawn care company can take to keep your cool-season grass healthy during its favorite season. Aeration and Overseeding Unlike the warm-season grasses that thrive in our…
Fall Garden Prep
As a lawn care company, we tend to focus our blog posts on lawns. However, we know that many of our customers enjoy gardening, so we occasionally devote this space to related subjects. Fall is the best time to grow a variety of popular vegetables and flowering plants, and you’ll need to start preparing in late summer to be successful. If you take on the important tasks we discuss here during August,…
What Your Warm-Season Grass Needs
We’ve arrived at the time of year when warm-season grasses can really shine. Two of these grasses are common in our region. Bermuda is known for its resilience, standing up to heavy traffic and dry conditions, but requires a lot of sunlight to remain healthy. By contrast, Zoysia can do well in areas that are either sunny or in partial shade. Depending on local conditions, you may find that it…
Outdoor Activities for Family Fun This Summer
You work hard to keep your lawn lush and thriving. Summer is a great time to get outside and enjoy the results of your (and your lawn care company’s) labor with some quality family time (when it’s not too hot). Here’s a list of ideas we gathered, at least some of which are sure to be new to you. (As a lawn care company, we feel obligated to say up front…
Water Right This Summer
Continuing our recent series about summer lawn care, this post explores one of the most important fundamentals, watering, in the context of our region’s high temperatures. The real basics of Atlanta-area lawn care are true regardless of the season, but they’re even more important when grass is being stressed by hot, dry conditions. HOW MUCH WATER? Although our summers can be punishing, broadly speaking our region’s climate is relatively temperate. Our…