Green Stuff Outdoor Services begin mowing service to our Twin Cities commercial and residential customers Monday, May 2nd.  We have added more crews to our Minneapolis and suburbs route to handle increased demand.  The successful response to our website tab “What’s New” offering FREE LAWN FERTILIZING/WEED CONTROL to our lawn mowing customers, has started to fill our schedules.  Check it out.

Green Stuff Outdoor Services provide low prices for weekly lawn mowing and a commitment to quality.  We maintain an assortment of professional Exmark Lazercut mowers to fit your lawns specific needs.  Green Stuff Outdoor Service’s vetted and experienced technicians come to your lawn each week with a commitment to provide an unmatched cut.  Let’s get started!

The only good news about today’s Minneapolis-St. Paul snowfall is that the colder temperatures thus far in April, will prolong the crabgrass control season.  Green Stuff Outdoor Services has applied our first of two early pre-emergent herbicide applications to many of our customer’s lawns.  Crabgrass seeds in your soil will start to germinate when the soil temeratures are 60 degrees for at least one week.  Green Stuff Outdoor Services still has plenty of time to apply our double barrier crabgrass herbicide applications to your lawn.

Green Stuff Outdoor Services will begin applying our early preemergent control next week.  Our professional Green Stuff turf management products offer effective crabgrass control all season long to Minneapolis and St. Paul area lawns!  Our preemergent herbicide provides up to 4 months of protection against crabgrass germination.  After our early crabgrass treatment, our Spring application of balanced fertilizer and more preemergent crabgrass control will be applied.  These double barrier applications will virtually eliminate breakthrough crabgrass problems this summer.  Green Stuff is tough on crabgrass.  Let’s get started on your lawn.

Unusually heavy and numerous snowfalls this past winter sent the Twin Cities snow accumulation totals to well over sixty inches.  The Megastorm of 20+ inches in December and the collapse of the Metrodome roof in Minneapolis made this a winter to remember.

Green Stuff Outdoor Services always prepares for the worst weather and hopes for the best, when it comes to our snow removal services.  Our fleet of plowtrucks, snow throwers and hard working, commited drivers provided our customers with quick, uninterrupted and reliable service in the worst conditions imaginable!

Green Stuff’s fast effective service and 24 hour communication with our customers kept us up and ahead of the worst snowstorms in memory.  If your current company provided slow, or poor service last winter why not let Green Stuff remove your white stuff next season.  We’d love to be your year around outdoor service.

Green Stuff is finishing our last few mowings and fall cleanups.  This will wrap up our 34th year servicing the Twin cities area.  We’d like to thank all our customers, website visitors and friends that made this a sucessful season in a very tough business environment.

Our customer support and patronage allowed Green Stuff to employ over 100 technicians and laborers this season.  Green Stuff Outdoor Services pumped back into the economy well over 3/4 of a million dollars in equipment purchases, wages and supplies.  Thank you for allowing us to serve you and help in a small way to rebuild our local economy.  We hope to serve you again next season.

Please contact us for any last minute lawn or irrigation needs before winter arrives.  We’d love to give you a quote for snow removal, before the first snowflakes fall.

Fall grass seed planting  is an excellent way to fill in the worn turf spots from a busy summer of use.  In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area we have two options for fall grass seeding.  Let Green Stuff seed your lawn before October 10th and seed will germinate and establish itself this growing season.  Seeding done after October 15th will lay dormant and germinate in early spring when ideal growing conditions also exist.  Enjoy uninterrupted greening all season long with Green Stuff’s fall seeding program.  Call for an estimate today!

Minneapolis and St. Paul area lawns are typically subjected to hot and humid weather during July and August.  Our staff has seen fungus diseases like Red Thread, Leaf Spot and Summer Patch appearing in lawns.  Green Stuff Outdoor services would like to remind you of a few lawn management tips to help protect your lawn from fungus attacks.

• Maintain balanced fertility
• Reduce thatch
• Increase mowing height to 3 inches
• Irrigate turf deeply and as infequently as possible during the daytime hours
• Apply appropriate preventive and therapeutic fungicides

Concerned you may have a fungus in your lawn?  Call Green Stuff for a evaluation of your turf needs.

Several Twin Citie’s lawns are suffering from Environmental Damage due to the early, dry Spring.  Brown to yellow spots and areas up to 15 feet in diameter have appeared in lawns the last two weeks.  University of Minnesota horticulturists and pathologists, as well as our Green Stuff Outdoor Service’s staff, are noting an increase in reported cases of Environmental Damage.  Lack of moisture in the soil results in poor root growth.  Stressed root growth causes green grass blades to yellow.  Environmental damage occurs in the hottest and driest areas first.  Areas in direct sunlight, sidewalk, driveways and south and west facing slopes are most susceptible.  However, all areas of the lawn are susceptible, depending on soil substructure and watering habits.

Green Stuff recommends you water at least an 1 1/2 inch of water weekly.  Soil should be moist to a depth of 6 inches.  Increased irrigation amounts are needed if extended periods of dry weather are forcasted.  Our Green Stuff lawn care program and good watering practices will keep your lawn healthy all season.

During our 33 years in business, Green Stuff Outdoor Services has heard it countless times.  Radio personalities and television talking heads have read the same old tired prepared script.  They robotically repeat “get your lawn crabgrass control applied when the lilacs bloom!”   While the Farmer’s Almanac is full of fun folklore and interesting nature observations, the lilac/crabgrass adage doesn’t hold true.

Breakthrough new pre-emergent herbicides for crabgrass control have been developed in the past few years (media outlets must not have read the memo).  Green Stuff Outdoor Services uses Prodiamine herbicide for crabgrass control.  Our crabgrass treatment stops crabgrass germination for four months from the date of application.  Our Green Stuff applications made in April are effective all the way through July.  This is well past the average May 30th crabgrass germination date in our Twin Cities northern climate.

Soil temperature dictates when crabgrass seeds germinate, not lilac bushes.  Soil temperatures along southern exposures, boulevards and hard “heat sink” surfaces in a lawn will germinate earlier than say, the northern exposure of a Minneapolis/St. Paul yard.  Crabgrass can germinate and be uncontrollable long before a purple or white flower appears on a lilac bush in these areas.  Green Stuff Outdoor Services’ advise our customers, the earlier the better for crabgrass control with Prodiamine.

So Belinda & Company, you report the news and weather, and we’ll provide homeowners with GUARANTEED crabgrass control!

Emerald Ash Borer was discovered in St. Paul in mid May of last year.  Green Stuff Outdoor Services knew it was just a matter of time before this destructive pest would be introduced to the Twin Cities area.  An immediate quarantine was enacted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for Hennepin and Ramsey Counties.  Unconfirmed sightings of the Emerald Ash Borer have been made as far west as the Minnetonka and Wayzata suburbs of Minneapolis.

Green Stuff’s tree service department now offers a low cost, extremely effective control against the deadly Emerald Ash Borer.  If you have an ash tree in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, it needs to be treated.  Our technicians will begin treatments in mid May.  Green Stuff Outdoor Service’s pricing for an annual injection with Pointer (Imidacloprid) insecticide is just $75.00.  The longer lasting three season injection with Tree:age (Emamectin Benzote) insecticide is just $185.  All injection work is fully guaranteed for the life of the treatment.  Order today, before it is too late.