Lawn Care

June 24, 2022

It’s All About the Water

Moore Green’s Water-Less Treatment has been around for years; however, this year it may be the key to plant survival. “This product was originally used to keep the dust down on dirt roads in the Australian Outback because it attracted water,” explains Blake Moore, owner of Moore Green. “When it was used in a landscape situation,” he continues, “the water savings were an average of 30%.” With the possibility of water restrictions, Moore Green sees this as a tool to maintain healthy lawns.

Soil Wetting Agents vs. Water-Less Treatment. What’s the difference?

Soil wetting agents are products that help water move into the soil and is included in all our lawn care programs. The Water-Less Treatment product makes “unavailable-water” available; it’s humectant and hygroscopic compounds act like a water magnet.

MOORE GREEN is giving a FREE Water Gauge to customers!

Measuring sprinkler output is the key to saving water. Water gauges will be given with a lawn service.

June 24, 2022

Need a Specific Time for Your Service?

When bad weather (wind, rain, snow) happens on your service day, we generally try to return within the next business day or two. Sometimes the weather clears early in the day and we get a later start, which may mean that we can’t get to all of our scheduled stops. We make every effort to text or call those we don’t get to.

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June 24, 2022

Protecting Moore Green Customers from Market Fluctuations

Lawn care products and parts are experiencing crazy fluctuations, just like everything else. We are seeing fertilizer prices climbing over 200% over last year, unavailability of products due to lack of containers and lids as well as lack of active ingredients, shipping prices higher than ever, and equipment parts are on back order with no date of availability.

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June 23, 2022

Is Brown the New Green?

With watering restrictions in place from the beginning of the growing season, all of us have concerns on what this means for our lawns. First off, I’d like to applaud the efforts that customers, cities, and businesses are making to conserve our precious resource.

Holding off on turning on the secondary water until mid-May was a wise decision. Roots grow in moist soil, therefore with infrequent moisture entering the soil from above, the roots must follow the water being pulled downward. This results in a deeper root system, which is crucial to success in the summer months. The best time for allowing our lawns to dry out is while temperatures, especially at night, are cooler.

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June 22, 2022

Tools for Combating Drought

In the lawn business, we use tools such as wetting agents, moisture managers, and polymers to help combat drought and its effects. To an outsider, it can be confusing to know what each of them do.

	Soil Wetting Agents	Moisture Managers	Polymers
What they do:	Reduces surface tension of water, allowing water to easily penetrate soil	Pushes, pulls, and attracts water in the soil, making it available to plants	Absorbs water and holds it more tightly than soil particles
When to use them:	When soil compaction prevents water from entering soil profile or after drought stress has occurred	Before drought situations occur to prevent drought dormancy	Polymers need to be placed INTO the soil, so usually prior to planting seed or after a core aeration
Notes/Comments	Wetting agents are temporary, lasting anywhere from 1 week to 1 month	Lasts up to 3 months. Requires moisture. If there is no water or humidity, nothing happens	As they absorb water, the pellets expand. With constant growing and shrinking, eventually they get pushed out of the soil.