(ARA) – You water, fertilize and give your lawn all the TLC it needs, yet come late-summer you still find unsightly brown patches scattered across the turf. If the turf in these spots can easily be pulled away from the ground, you most likely have a grub problem. And chances are if you don’t act quickly these voracious... 

SIDNEY — The South Platte Natural Resources District is once again sponsoring its Cash For Grass program, which gives landowners in certain areas the opportunity to help protect ground water supplies by choosing buffalograss over traditional cool season lawns. Cash For Grass began as a pilot program in 2005 within the city... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2006 When fall comes to the garden its cold temperatures and brisk winds litter fastidiously manicured lawns and neatly mulched beds with its untidy debris of leaves. In a society obsessed with imposing its illusion of order on nature’s boisterous and often messy exuberance, cleaning up the recurring... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Is your landscape going to seed? If it is, that’s a good thing. Flowers are pretty, but if you remember your sophomore biology class, the flower is just a plant’s way of getting the bees and the butterflies to do all of that x-rated stuff with the stamens and pistils, or whatever the heck... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 A national organization recently surveyed a broad cross-section of homeowners to find out what homeowners find important in a landscape. Very high on the list of homeowner desires was “neatness”. In fact neatness was second in importance to “easy to maintain”. So its not too surprising... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 It seems like everything is going green these days. “Greenhouse” used to mean a building in which bedding plants are grown. Now the term “green house” means a home that is designed and built to be environmentally friendly. Passive and active solar heat to reduce energy demands for heating... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 There are many good reasons to consider shrinking the size of your lawn. First, the rising cost of water, particularly for lawns watered with city water, makes lawns an increasingly expensive landscape feature. Seasonal water bills for lawn watering in some cases are approaching $1,000. Add... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Before you buy your next landscape plants, you may want to find out a little more about their dining preferences. Almost everyone understands that plants vary widely in their ability to tolerate cold winter temperatures. And while maybe only half of all Americans know the USDA Plant Hardiness... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Your seventh grade math teacher was right, after all. Fractions are important. I am aware that bringing up the subject of fractions may cause some readers to have a recurrence of painful and now long-suppressed classroom experiences. So if you are one of those people who are still discussing...