Buck and Sons Landscape Blog

Prepare NOW to Repair Your Damaged Lawn

When do I seed the bare areas in my lawn? There is absolutely no better time for lawn seeding than in the fall. The exact timing will vary for different parts of the country but here in the Midwest, August though early October is the ideal time. Fall lawn seeding is ideal for several reasons. In the spring, the soil temperatures are much cooler than in the fall. Spring temperatures can often fluctuate wildly from extreme heat to below freezing temperatures. These temperature swings can quickly stunt and even kill new grass seedlings requiring the entire process to be redone in ...

Do Your Flowers Explode with Color or Fizzle?

Flower Fireworks or flower fizzle? Summer is in full swing and hopefully you have planted or are in the process of planting your annual flowers. Nothing accentuates the landscape more than a nicely placed, healthy grouping of annual flower color. The question is, does your annual flower display explode with vibrant colors or does your flower display merely sit in your landscape and meekly exist without much notice whatsoever? So what’s the secret to growing vibrant, healthy, explosive annual flowers? The answer is not as simple as you might think. For any plant, annual flower or otherwise, location, location, location is the ...

Are You Sending Your Money to the Land Fill?

If you like to spend your hard earned money on lawn waste bags, cram them full of grass clippings, and then drag them to the curb for pick up, don’t bother reading this. However, if you wish that you could make your lawn cutting chore a little easier, a little cheaper, and help the earth while you are at it, you might want to read on. First of all, lawn waste bags are an unnecessary waste of paper. We may have to cut the grass, but we shouldn’t have to cut down trees to use for hauling away those clippings! Grass ...