Lawn Care

🌱 Improving Your Soil Healthy soil = healthy plants. It’s the foundation of gardening success. ✅ Better watering & fertilizing ✅ Stronger plants & bigger blooms ✅ Ongoing investment in your garden 🔍 Why Test Soil? Soil testing is the first step to improving your garden. A soil test will: 🧱 Identify soil type (clay, sandy, etc.) 🌿 Reveal nutrient or micronutrient deficiencies ⚖️ Pinpoint soil pH (acidic or alkaline) 📍 Soil testing available at: Oklahoma County Extension

Ground Covers The best known ground cover, a lawn, is unsurpassed as a surface to walk and play, but where foot traffic is infrequent or undesirable; many other ground cover plants can offer much of lawn’s neatness and uniformity with considerable less maintenance. Most garden or landscaped areas contain spots that can be enhanced with the use of ground covers. Ground covers offer all sorts of textures and colors and many are noted for their colorful flowers. Ground covers ar

9 Steps to Rid Your Lawn of Fleas & Ticks Blood-sucking fleas and ticks pose potential harm to your family and pets. They hide in your lawn and can cause problems from simple skin irritation to spreading disease. Control fleas and ticks in your lawn with these simple tips. Mow it right. Mowing your lawn to the proper height reduces flea and tick hang-outs. Both of these insects hide in longer grass. Avoid overwatering . Fleas and ticks prefer moist environs. An overwatered o

Striking the Right Balance Reasons to Analyze Soil Soil testing provides a starting place for soil improvement. Unless you know the problems in your garden soil, you are only guessing when you apply fertilizer. For soil testing information, contact the Oklahoma County Extension Center, 2500 NE 63rd St, Oklahoma City, (405) 713-1125. Learn what type of soil composition you have (clay, sandy etc.) Find out what your soil is lacking (nutrients, micronutrients, etc.) Pinpoint soi

The Facts Height: 1′ – 2′ Spread: 1′ – 2′ Sun: Morning Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Carex, or Sedges, are brilliant ornamental grasses that bring life and color to otherwise shaded and dark areas of the garden. Hues of greens, yellows and golds compile this perennial color palette. Since it is a clumping perennial it does not spread much making it a great choice for containers and focal points for shorter perennials. Most varieties don’t mind wet f

Trees Most trees should be pruned while they are dormant and sap is not flowing, which is between December and February. The few...

Cool season grasses , such as fescue and ryegrass, grow best in moderate shade or part sun. These are the areas where warm season...

It can be challenging to keep your garden and landscape beds free of weeds and grass, but your plants, herbs, veggies and flowers are...

Ornamental Grasses In Oklahoma Because of their color, texture and movement, ornamental grasses are wonderful additions to the landscape....

Bermudagrass is the warm-season turfgrass species most commonly planted in Oklahoma. It is the best-adapted turf¬grass for full-sun areas...

Speed Zone: Maximize Weed Kill Broadleaf weeds such as henbit, dandelion, chickweed, etc, flourish in early spring weather. Henbit has...

Oklahoma summers are often long with hot temperatures, drying winds, and minimal rainfall. Landscape plantings, especially those...

Oklahoma Turfgrass 101 If you’re confused about what grass seed to use – you are not alone! Not all turfgrasses are created equal, and...