Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
Too often when tales of crime and landscape are put together it is the contractor who comes out smelling like fertilizer. But in this case…
It's a tough row to hoe, this $3.50-plus per gallon of gasoline. Don't see how people making less than $10 an hour can afford to…
KSWO Channel 7 News broadcast the plight of Kevin Williams, a landscaper in Lawton, OK. His company maintains about 85 lawns. On the broadcast he…
Today is gas boycott day. Since I filled up last night when the price was a mere $3.19 a gallon . . . no problemo.…
A little healthy competition can be good for business. But three Knoxville, TN, brothers that started a maintenance operation may just make their Knoxville area…
Talk about getting ripped. Wow, did Steve Daniels, the anchor for ABC 11 in Raleigh, NC, unload on the professional lawn care community, even though…
NANTUCKET, MA — Today’s question: Assume during the course of your workday as a landscaper you rake up a hand grenade, what should you do?1.…
Responding to growing concerns about the environment, then-U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, (D-WI), called for an Environmental Teach-in or Earth Day to be held on April…
LM StaffApr 9, 2015
Why anybody would want to play baseball on a carpet has always puzzled me. It still puzzles me seeing as how most of the action in a baseball game takes place on the infield, and most of that on the dirt that surrounds home plate and the base paths.
I have headline envy after reading this article in the New York Post. It reports that the New York City Parks Department has installed 74…
Making a law seems to be easier than enforcing it. Case in point the pesticide neighbor notification law that New York State legislators allow counties…
You may not agree with the source, but a recent column from the Western Catholic Reporter cited some interesting statistics about the lawn care industry…
Wow, the science project involving pesticides that two high school students at Pedro Menendez High School conducted several weeks ago continues to make news near…
Guelph, with more than 100,000 residents and home to one of the top research universities in North America, is not what you would call a…
Talk about giving back to the community! One big pat on the back (and maybe a hug, too) to Keating Enterprises Inc., based in Worcester,…
Do you have to hire illegal immigrants to compete in the landscape business? Kirsten Stewart says you do — in her California market, at least.…
Forget those styrofoam balls on straightened coat hangers rotating around a yellow beach ball. The solar system doesn't cut it as a science project any…
If you've followed this blog you know that Scotts fired one of its lawn care techs this past year because he tested positive for smoking…
This has nothing to do with landscaping really, unless you've been having problems with squirrels destroying your clients' property. But an article from the Los…
I just came across this article from a few weeks ago. It talks about Major League Baseball reaching out to different parts of the world…
A year ago today, March 12, 2006, a tornado did its killer dance through the Midwest. In its path was Sprinfield, IL, including the headquarters…
ServiceMaster Co. (NYSE:SVM), the owner of TruGreen ChemLawn and Terminix pest control services which put itself up for sale last year, may get buyout bids…
Hispanic workers landed two out of every three new construction jobs in 2006, according to a March 7 report by the Pew Hispanic Center. They…
For you visual learners, let me draw this picture:Setting — Cold, rainy, nasty winter’s day in downtown Cleveland, OhioTime — Noon, lunchtimeLocation — Office cafeteria…
