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Around the Turf Scene
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From Side Gig to Profitable Business: The Yard Works Landscaping Finds Success Leveraging Value
A hard-working, 6th-grade schoolteacher founded the company 47 years ago as a side job to supplement his teaching income. Since then, it has grown from a single-person mowing operation to a 40-person, 11-crew business in peak season. The Yard Works has built this success by adding value to both their customers and their employees.
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Smart Start Program
There are so many components to achieving an aesthetically pleasing, safe, and predictable playing surface that you might be asking yourself, “Where should I even start?” Advanced Turf Solutions’s Smart START Program is your answer. Smart START, which stands for Site Visit, Testing, Analysis, Recommendations, and Training, is the concept of using science-based testing to make the most accurate recommendations for your athletic fields.
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Chlorosis: A Major Issue For Landscape Trees And Plants
It’s an exciting time of the year—temperatures are increasing, birds are coming back north, and trees are thinking about producing leaves. For some trees though, producing leaves with a normal level of chlorophyll (the pigment that gives leaves their green color) can be very difficult. We have two things to blame: soil pH and plant genetics.
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