A bumpy lawn is one of those problems that's easy to ignore for years and then, one day, impossible to look past. You notice it every time you mow (the scalped high spots). You notice it every time you walk barefoot (the ankle-twisting dips). And if you've ever tried...

The Weed Nobody in Albuquerque Invited Poa annua, or annual bluegrass, is one of those weeds that seems to appear overnight. One week your lawn looks clean. The next, you notice little clumps of lighter-green grass with small white seed heads scattered across it. A...

Before we get into the mechanics of installing Bermuda grass sod, we need to have an honest conversation. If you're in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, or Santa Fe and considering a Bermuda lawn, the first question isn't "how do I install it?" — it's "should I be installing...

You know the look. The baseball-field stripes at Isotopes Park. The bowling-alley pattern some neighbor in your Rio Rancho subdivision somehow achieves every weekend. Those clean alternating light and dark bands of green grass, looking like they took professional...

Most people assume sod installation is a spring-only project. It isn't — at least not in New Mexico. Our winters are mild enough, and our sod cut fresh enough, that we get calls about winter installs every year from Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, and points in...

Nobody wants to spend $1,500 on new sod and then watch it turn yellow three weeks later. Fertilizer timing is one of the most common questions we get from customers calling in after a delivery, and there's a lot of conflicting advice floating around online about when...

Winter in the Albuquerque basin is deceiving. Most days from November through February look sunny. Shirt-sleeve weather at lunchtime. But the nights drop hard — single digits a few times each winter, sometimes below zero up in Santa Fe or Los Alamos — and the soil pH,...

The first time you notice zebra stripes of brown and green running across your Bermuda lawn, the natural assumption is that something went terribly wrong. Lawn disease. Chemical damage. A dog situation you don't want to think about. The good news: it's probably none...

Granular fertilizer. Granular herbicide. Granular iron supplements. If you own a lawn in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, or anywhere along the Middle Rio Grande Valley, odds are you're going to be walking a spreader across it at some point. The mechanics aren't complicated,...

Mixing your first batch of lawn spray feels a lot like showing up to a chemistry class you didn't study for. There's the jug of concentrate, the tiny measuring cup, the tank itself, a wand with a nozzle you're fairly sure is wrong, and a label that reads more like a...