Before giving up completely, Dale decided to give one another lawn care company a try, Earth Elements. He wanted  to see if their customized approach would be able to aid his ailing lawn. “Since then, I’ve been told that it was most likely that the grass wasn’t getting enough water,” he stated. 

Lighting can transform your entire landscape. When we design our lighting plans, we are not just looking for areas to increase visibility, but how light and colour can be used to showcase the creativity and design of our customers’ landscapes.

Water deserves our respect. Without this limited, precious resource, life on earth wouldn’t survive. In Ontario, we are surrounded by freshwater, making it easy to take this resource for granted. In 2015, the average Canadian was reported to use 320 L of water a day, a large percentage of which is wasted.

Drought, temperature shifts, and unpredictable rainfall, have made it increasingly challenging to accurately predict the amount of irrigation needed for turf.  To stay on top of these erratic weather shifts, irrigation systems either need to be manually reprogrammed or adaptive.  Thankfully, advances in technology have resulted in irrigation products that can do so much more then get water down to the roots.

A long snowy winter can not only impact the turf but the irrigation system underneath it.  Snow removal, freezing temperatures, and even rodents can cause damage to the piping, wiring and sprinkler heads.  Don’t worry!  Regular maintenance and upkeep can help prevent any minor problem from becoming a major one.

Last year was the winter for heavy snowfall and dramatic temperatures changes, including freezing and melting snow.  Snow may look like a nice warm blanket, but its prolonged stay can damage your spring lawn. That’s not all, shifts in temperatures and precipitation throughout the winter season can result in damaged roots, nutrient deprived areas, and even dead patches. 

Moles can be a problem in Muskoka. These dark brown velvety fur rodents, push small piles of soil up from their tunnels throughout your lawn.  

With the hot dry summers in Muskoka, many people end up with beige, dormant or dead lawns.  As the cooler evening temperatures of fall approach, grasses start their second growth cycle and lawns start to green up.  However; some of these don’t grow back. In these bare patches,   crabgrass and weeds may step in.

Are you plagued with grubs and other nasty insects? Learn how nematodes can help you control your grub and cutworm population.

Save money and the environment with rain water harvesting.  Rain water harvesting tanks collect and hold storm water, diverting the water from treatment facilities.

Want that the instant gratification of an immediate lawn? Then sod may be for you, however turf in a roll doesn’t come without maintenance.

Described as the probiotics of plants, endophytes not only stop insects from eating the seed but also help provide a healthy boost for the plant itself. A symbiotic relationship the grass produces nutrients for the endophyte, while the endophyte releases toxins which stops the seed from being consumed from livestock and insects.  But that’s not all endophytes also help the grass seed cope with environmental stressors like drought.

Earth Elements uses a variety of seed types on lawns in Muskoka including perennial ryegrass, chewings fescue, tall fescue, red fescue and Kentucky blue grass. 

Thatch is the dense, spongy collection of living and dead grass stems and roots that grows between the soil surface in lawns.

Building a healthy lawn begins with the soil. Lawns need more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potash to grow.

Earth Elements applies the right kind of fertilizer in the right amounts, at the right time to replace essential nutrients needed for a healthy green lawn.

Here are the facts:  lawns typically need about 2.5cm – 4cm of water per week.  The goal for Earth Elements is to build a healthy root system so that the turf becomes both disease and weed resistant.

The shorter a lawn is the shallower the root system.  It is the root system that is the key to a disease free, healthy lawn.