April showers may bring May flowers, but with this year’s unseasonably mild weather, and many flowers already in bloom, who knows what they will bring this year? And while some elements of the gardening calendar have likely been thrown off, following are some of the

For lawn care in Asheville, Hendersonville, Fairview and Fletcher areas this month, it’s best to check with the professionals here at Meadows Lawn Care Inc. for what’s the best lawn fertilize and weed control strategies are given the unusually warm weather. And, of course, we’re here to help with all your landscaping and lawn mowing needs from Enka and Biltmore Lakes to Biltmore Park and across the rest of Buncombe and Henderson Counties. [Read more...]

Most people don’t give much thought to grass, but if they did, they’d know:

Grass is green in more ways than one. For instance, a 50×50-foot area of grass produces enough oxygen to meet the breathing needs of a family of four. At the same time, it’s also absorbing the enemies of good air like ozone, hydrogen fluoride, carbondioxide, and perosyacetyle nitrate (you can say that again).

Lawns are cool. An average healthy lawn has the same cooling power as an 8.5-ton capacity air conditioner (most home units have a 3-4 ton capacity.) Helping your lawn breathe is yet  another reason to keep your lawn regularly aerated, fertilized, mowed and maintained

Lawns are dust busters, acting as natural filters removing pollutants, dust, and other particulates not only from the air, but from the water to the tune of 12 million tons annually. [Read more...]

Seems the mower was broke and the wife was tired of nagging her husband to fix it, so thought she’d use a visual to make her point.

So one day when he cam home from work, he found her sitting in the front yard, scissors in hand busily snipping away at the grass. The husband stood and watched for a while without saying anything, and then hung his head and walked into the house, only to return a few minutes later.

“Here,” he said, handing a toothbrush to his wife. “You’ll probably want to sweep the sidewalk after you finish mowing the grass.

Doctors say he’ll be OK, though he may walk funny the rest of his life (or was that sing funny?)