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Summer Heat and Warm Season Grasses

The warm season grasses that we grow in our area grow fast in the summer heat. The more they grow the more they may need to be mowed. If you like the grass kept cut short, then mowing frequency may…

Warm Winter Days and Weed Growth

On warm winter days, when the temperatures are above 55 degrees, the weeds in the lawn will be growing and getting ready to produce flowers. If they haven’t started flowering yet, then now would be a…

Topdressing Your Soil Workshop

Join Horticulture Agent, Shawn Banks, for a free Topdressing Your Soil Workshop at the Western Carteret Branch of the Carteret County Public Library System on Monday, 2/24 at 5:30pm.Warm season lawns…

Dormant Grass or Not

While the lawn has long since stopped growing, it still has a lot of green color to it. No, that’s not the weeds in the lawn creating the color, but the lawn itself. I’m not sure if that means it’s…

Warmer Temps and Flowering Weeds

On warm days, with temperatures of 55 degrees, weeds will be growing and getting ready to produce flowers, if they haven’t started flowering already. The first warm days we get without rain will be a…

Summer Lawn Check-In

All of our warm season grasses are growing like crazy in the heat of the summer, as long as they are getting some water to keep them growing. I’ve been mowing my lawn at least once a week and I…

New landscape design plans will change the look of the landscape outside of our building.

New Landscape Design Coming to the Carteret Center

Happy New Year! I don’t usually make resolutions to start off the new year, as I find it’s difficult to live up to such rigid goals and this year is no different. Nothing unobtainable for me,…

Southern Chinch Bug, David Shetlar, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org

Chinch Bugs and St. Augustine Lawns

If you have a St. Augustine lawn, you may want to take a really close look at the grass near the soil. Chinch bugs (Blissus insularis Barber) can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time,…

Fertilize Your Summer Lawn

When it comes to lawns, in our area we grow warm season grasses. They should probably be called hot season grasses, because they grow so fast when it’s hot outside and they have plenty of water…