LawnPro Pest Controls & Fertilizers

06/29/2023

Lawn fanatics say being in our store is like being a kid in a candy shop. Well, for us, being able to look at all the great cultivars Jonathan Green offers and being able to make our own custom mix is definitely that same feeling of being a kid in a candy shop. We will of course still have Sodmaker and Sun&Shade, but we will also have the LawnPro Gamechanger Mix, and it’s truly the first mix like it in the market. Can’t wait for seeding season to arrive!!!!

03/29/2023

Spring is here! Come down Monday-Fridays from 730-430 and on Saturdays from 8-11 to get your pre-emergents and anything else a homeowner would need to get your lawn green and w**d free! We have multiple plans you can follow depending on how much effort you want to put into your lawn, and you can take a printed copy home with your as your own personal cheat sheet for timing and products. I hope to see you soon!

08/30/2022

We are excited to offer Jonathan Green Sodmaker shipping direct to customers in the Northeast. If you have a full sun lawn that got baked jn this summers heat, Sodmaker is a mix you should highly consider. With a combination of heat and drought tolerant turf type tall fescues and the improved heat tolerance provided by Texas HYBRID bluegrasses, this seed mix will do better in the hotter summers that are quickly becoming the norm. If you are too far to drive, but live in CT, ME, MA, RI, VT, NH, NY, NJ, PA, OH or MD we’ve got you covered, $255 including shipping…and most states don’t need to pay tax. Good luck with your seeding this year! https://lawnpropesticides.com/product/jonathan-green-seed-sodmaker/

08/18/2022

Here’s a great seeding tip for everyone whose lawns burned to a crisp this summer… If you have stopped watering your lawn, make sure you start watering your lawn again a week before you plan on seeding. Soil that has experienced the current drought will react to water like a dry sponge does when you first put it under a faucet….water won’t be readily absorbed into the soil. If you wait to water until you’ve seeded, the first week after seeding you will be spending more time teaching your soil to absorb water again rather than getting you seed germinating. The other benefit of watering before seeding is aerators, even with plenty of weight in them, will take terrible cores of your soil has no moisture in it; it can feel, and look, like trying to aerate concrete. Adding soil moisture will allow the aerator to take a much better core and get much better seed to soil contact. Good luck with your seeding this year!!!

08/12/2022

This past week I did a little product comparison, to show what crabgrass looks like as it is controlled by the most popular active ingredients in the market. These plants are all within 20 feet of eachother on the same property, and we’re sprayed at the same time. 4.5 days later, this is what has happened so far. All 3 products had Kinetic surfactant, a wetter/spreader/penetrant, added.

The top photo was treated with Tenacity (mesotrione). You can see leaf tissue turning bright white, this happens because mesotrione is an HPPD pigment inhibitor that stops chlorophyll production, which is what gives plants their green color. While control started to be visual after a couple days with the Tenacity, my previous experiences make me believe that without a second application this bleaching may only be temporary, and the plant may bounce back.

The bottom left photo was treated with Drive XLR8, which unlike mesotrione kills the plant by mimicking auxins and affecting growth, leading the plant to turn reddish-purple and die. You can also the whole lesions of head tissue appear and twisting and curling. In this experiment, I was very surprised that the Drive was significantly faster in providing visual control of the crabgrass. The big complaint with quinclorac is that while not does an excellent job killing immature crabgrass plants and very large crabgrass plants, in the 4-5 tiller, mid-life stage of the crabgrass plant it is not nearly as effective, and I certainly have seen that here as well.

Finally, the bottom right photo used Acclaim Extra (fenoxoprop). Acclaim is a lipid synthesis inhibitor, meaning it prevents the plant from utilizing fatty acids essential for cell development and leading to death of the plant. As shown in the photos, the effects of Acclaim are visible from the leaves turning yellow/tan/off white and wilting, finally leading to full necrosis. The benefit of using Acclaim is that it will control crabgrass even at the 4-5 tiller stage where Drive is ineffective. The downside to Acclaim, is you should not apply it within 2 weeks of an application of 2,4-D as they counteract eachother. For this reason, I’d also treating broadleaf w**ds you may need to change you broadleaf herbicide, or decide Acclaim isn’t best for you.

As for my opinion of the results in the first 4.5 days, the kne thing that struck me was how much quicker the Drive XLR8 was in providing control. While it may not have achieved 100% control, the results happens fast and did control most plants sprayed. I’d certainly say it’s better than Tenacity, which seems to always need a second app for most of the w**ds, and I guess when it comes to Drive vs Acclaim the jury is still out. In another 10 days we will know how thoroughly each controlled the plants, and be able to better judge if the increased kill potential of Acclaim is worth the extra wait!

08/04/2022

At LawnPro we carry the best products on the market, but I truly believe the experience and knowledge we offer is our greatest asset. Many customers I’ve spoken to have said as much, as evidenced by the hours they will spend in my store 😀.

To that end, I’ve decided to offer on-property consultation visits to my customers. In-Season, consultations are available evenings and weekends at a flat rate of $200/hr minimum 2 hour visit and drive time based on GPS from 1024 Farmington Ave, Farmington 06032. In the winter weekday consultations will be available at a discounted rate of $150/hr.

After making over 20,000 applications and evaluating over 5,000 properties, being the ‘problem solver’ and running production for a client base of 13,000, running a tree and shrub division, and owning a pesticide dealership, it’s a visit you can’t get from anyone else. I’d expect anyone who took this service to have questions on problem areas, diseases, cultural habits, w**d issues, tree and shrub health, recommended programs and amendments based on soil samples, better understanding of how various products work and things I don’t even know. I know a lot but not everything….if something arises I don’t know, I’ll find out the answer and get back to you on my time, no extra charge. Encountering new problems, finding the solution, and sharing that learnt experience is what my career has been all about.

I’ll provide continued support via email or DM if you have further questions or issues that arise, and will also keep a record of your property and our discussion-as well as provide you with a report that includes notes and recommendations. I am very happy to be able to offer such a unique opportunity.

If you have interest, you can reach me by DM, by phone at 860-461-1679, and by email at [email protected]

Thanks!

08/01/2022

This is fusarium blight, a very common disease this time of year, particularly given the weather pattern we’ve been in. The tell-tale signature of fusarium is you will see some damaged areas exhibit a ‘frog-eye’ pattern. This is when the disease forms a circle while leave some turf healthy in the middle, as you can see clearly in the first photo. Propiconazole 14.3, Artavia 2 SC, Armada 50 WDG, Heritage are all great fungicides if you need to treat it. If these problems are chronic year after year with heavy scarring in the SAME EXACT spots, you may actually have necrotic ring spot, but this is much more rare.

05/26/2022

With grass plants having just gone through stemming, this is the most common time of the year for your mower blades to finally show it’s time for a sharpening. When your lawn looks green before you mow, but pale afterwards, the usual culprit is a dull moss blade. If you look at the photo below, the grass on the left was cut with a sharp blade while the grass on the right was cut with the same mower blade before it had been sharpened. Notice the grass on the right is shredded and white at the top; this is why your lawn look ls pale after you mower it. You are seeing millions of white shredded tips. In addition to making the lawn look pale, these shredded tips act as open wounds where the grass loses water and is highly susceptible to disease pathogens. A sharp blade leaves a clean cut and minimizes water loss and disease. Going into hot summer weather, having sharp mower blades is one of the best things you can do for your lawn.

05/19/2022

If you treat your lawn with preventative fungicides, the weather that promote summer time diseases is definitely here and you should be making your first application ASAP. We highly recommend a rotation of Propiconazole 14.3 and Artavia 2 SC at 28 day intervals. If you don’t treat preventatively but would want to treat if you get a disease, be jn the lookout for spider-web like growth in grass blades jn the mowning and turf browning out with black lesions.

Artavia 2 SC is one of the best fungicides available for your lawn and garden. A generic form of Heritage, it controls a broad spectrum of diseases.

05/11/2022

If you have not put down your preventative grub control yet, make sure you put it down this month. Most homeowners today use the active ingredient chlorantraniliprole, which is in Acelepryn and GrubEx. This product does an EXCELLENT job at preventing grubs, but takes a long time to set up in the grass plant, which is why timing is so important. Applying Acelepryn in April or Maybgive the product plenty of time to translocate throughout the grass plant, so when the grub eggs hatch in August the plants are well protected. If you wait to apply these products until late June or July, they simply won’t have had time to translocate and will not protect the roots of the grass plant. In addition to proper timing, make sure you water this product in well, as it must be watered into the root system to be taken up by the plant. The most affordable as efficient method of applying your grub control is on a bag of fertilizer, something like 22-0-5 w/ .067 Acelepryn is perfect. If you wish to apply the grub control on its own, we highly recommend the 4oz liquid Acelepryn bottles. Acelepryn G and GrubEx are also viable options, but are most difficult to apply at the proper rate and people who use GrubEx tend to have a disproportionate amount of breakthrough compared to those who use Acelepryn-this makes some sense and GrubEx is a homeowner version.

The best grub control available and pollinator safe. Now available in the liquid formulation used by professionals for years.

04/30/2022

These two w**dy grasses are often confused and this is a great opportunity show what separates them. The photo on the left is barnyard grass, while on the right we have orchard grass. If you look at the barnyard grass, you will see it has long leaf sheaths with the leaves open enjoy far from the crown and it grows very prostrately. Meanwhile, the orchard grass has very long almost ribbon-like leaves, not nearly as stalky. Orchard grass can look like a ‘fountain’ of grass in a turf stand. Both of these plants are not able to be selectively controlled so treatments would be the same (roundup, shovel).

03/03/2022

URGENT!!!!! If you live in CT, the lawn care industry desperately needs your help! Responsible use of pesticides is an essential tool in the maintenance of properties, and a bill has been put up in the Environmental Committee that will BAN all neonicotinoids in the state. Neonicotinoids are ESSENTIAL to the sytemic control on insects. A full on ban will make it near impossible to prevent certain devastating insects in the landscape such as Emerald Ash Borer. These products are already restricted in the state, and through FIFRA and the EPA their uses are already well governed. The all out banning of products goes against the entire law framework built into FIFRA and the EPA. For instance, the ban of chlorpyrophos in this bill will be unneccesary as the product is not going to reregistered by the EPA. The framework we have in place WORKS! By banning products we are circumventing science and instead making decisions based on peoples emotions. Please support the science, and contact your representative TODAY! Tomorrow will be TOO LATE, and while it starts with things like this bill, make no mistake success here will just enable those who want to remove ALL pesticides, starting with those used by homeowners! Thank you for your support!!

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