Annuals vs. Perennials

12March2025

They really aren’t rivals, but for the sake of adding a little drama to your pastoral garden scene, let’s see whether it’s annuals or perennials that win their way into your garden plans. We’ll test their strengths against each other, and factor in their drawbacks to see who comes out ahead in the battle of…

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2024 Year for Cicadas

26April2024

Yes! It’s the year for the “seventeen year locusts” to show up. In May these periodic cicadas will start crawling out of the soil as wingless nymphs, transforming to full fledged adults on their way to the branches of the tree that was likely the repository of their mothers’ eggs 17 years ago. Get ready…

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Shrub Fertilization

14February2024

Enhance the health and beauty of your landscape plantings with a spring feeding. This timely granular application will promote vigor and density, and for flowering species, increase the quantity of blooms. In some cases this nutritional boost will actually lengthen the blooming season for your shrubs or perennials. Also, good nutrition is fundamental to preventing disease….

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Worst Weeds

9February2024

When hiring TML to wage war on weeds in your lawn, you’re bringing in not just well trained technicians but veterans with a lifetime of experience. We know what we’re up against. With that knowledge, we use various selective herbicides at various times of the year to address the full range of problem weeds. Obviously,…

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Understanding Grubs

18February2022

Some people have said to me that the grubs in their lawn came from their neighbor’s lawn. That is not true. Others are worried that just a few in their lawn will multiply and kill the whole lawn. That also is not true. Then there are companies who are eager to sell you grub treatments…

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Crabgrass

18February2022

Hard to kill but easy to keep out of your lawn. Crabgrass is an annual grassy weed. It germinates in spring when the soil temperature is at least 55° for 3 to 4 consecutive days. This is one weed you do not want to discover later in the season. At that point, very possibly, nothing…

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TML Lawn Fertilization Program

18February2022

Lush, healthy, weed free! TML Mowing has the right products and expert technicians to give you great results. For a Healthy Lawn… TML has University of Illinois Extension trained and State of Illinois licensed technicians that implement our Lawn Fertilization Program. It includes 5 rounds of dry granular fertilizer where each is formulated to provide…

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Water! Water! Water!

18February2022

As helpful as fertilizer is to the healthy of your lawn, it is important to know that water is absolutely essential. Given adequate water your lawn will love the nutritional boost. However, if after a fertilization your lawn only gets sun and heat it may smart and beg for mercy. The result could be deadly….

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