Today I presented: Starting the Switch to Natural Lawn Care for the Boone County Master Gardeners. It went great. The audience enjoyed the topic and had many questions that I answered. It was nice to get out and talk about lawns while the snow is melting in late January. I know that there is plenty of winter left and even more snow in the forecast as I write, but I am anticipating the spring weather already.
Now it is time for me to write my annual spring newsletter to my friends and clients. As always, I talk about how Insite did last year and some of the things that I am thinking of doing this year. I also provide some tips on lawn care and/or landscaping. I like to think that I spread a bit of my 'Spring Fever' around during the winter blues.
Take care and have fun!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Snow Removal
Hello everyone,
Today it is snowing once again. I am looking forward to removing this snow. It is light and fluffy due to the cold weather. The last snow was also the same. The snow that happened on Monday, January 17th was different in many ways. It snowed and then sleeted. Nothing different about that. After the sleet, it rained and some of the rain was freezing rain. I can not remember rain in January so it threw me for a loop on how to take care of the snow. I have to removal lists: 1"+ or 2"+. Well, the snow was only 1.5" deep. So, I cleared my one inch list and when I was done, the freezing rain started. Everything was now thinly coated with ice. Thankfully, the sun came over the next two days and quickly melted that thin layer of ice. I had a few clients call in to ask me to go ahead and remove their snow as well after the weather system passed. This was difficult as the snow/rain/ice all packed into hard snow or just ice. The places where people walked or drove was solid ice and would not scrape up off the ground. I put down a little ice melt after I was done clearing what would come off and the ice melt worked great even though the temps were near zero. Next time that we get rain in winter, I might call around to my clients and see who would like to have me remove the snow before it freezes in place. This would solve some of my unrest of worrying about what to do and provide better service to my clients.
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