How to Level Your Lawn

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...

How to Get Rid of Poa Annua: The Ultimate Guide

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...

How to Stripe Your Lawn

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...

Can You Lay Sod in Winter?

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...

When to Fertilize New Sod

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...