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Practical ideas for caring for lawns, landscapes, irrigation systems, and outdoor spaces in Northern Nevada.

4 Quick Tips for Fall Lawn Care

Fall is a season of family, football, festivities, great food, and pleasantly cool temperatures. But fall is also a season of change in nature, and that means adjusting your lawn care regimen. Don’t worry, though,

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Perks of Installing a Patio This Summer

A boring backyard is uninspiring and may even go unused. There’s a sad trend across America of people buying homes with spacious backyards, but then never actually using them once they’ve moved in. And the excuses are

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Perks of Installing a Sprinkler System

Maintaining a beautiful lawn is tough work. Grass is delicate, and its watering needs are very precise. However, caring for your lawn could be a little easier if you have a sprinkler system. A full-service lawn

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Common Landscaping Mistakes to Avoid

For many homeowners, lawn maintenance seems like one of the easiest parts of caring for their home’s exterior. After all, how hard could it be to mow the lawn regularly, take out a few weeds, and make sure the grass has

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A Guide to Making Your Lawn Summer-Ready

A beautiful lawn surrounded by lush foliage and blooming flowers is the perfect backdrop to enjoy fun summer days with friends and family. If you’re looking to revitalize your lawn to get it ready in time for summer,

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Best Lawn Maintenance Tips for Spring

In order to have a lush, green lawn you have to maintain it throughout the growing season, but another important component is how you prepare your lawn in the spring. Lawn care services in Reno, NV, can help make sure

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Greenscaping: What You Need to Know

Are you familiar with greenscaping? Landscaping companies in Reno, NV, have offered greenscaping services for years as a way to preserve natural resources in the lawns of their customers. However, many people don’t

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5 Landscaping Ideas for Front Yard

Your home deserves a front yard that pops—it’s what people see first and helps deliver a good first impression. Landscaping in Reno, NVhttps://actionlawnreno.com/, doesn’t have to be complicated, but it should take into

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Ways Winter Can Affect Your Landscape

Cold weather and snow can transform your property into a beautiful winter wonderland. But when spring rolls around, you may begin to see the lasting impact the season has on your landscaping. The extent of the winter

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Fall Lawn Care Leads to a Healthy Spring Yard

It’s been a long, hot summer, and your lawn has been through a lot. As the days grow shorter and the weather cools, it’s good to take advantage of the change in the weather to rejuvenate your lawn in anticipation for

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Time To Winterize!

The cold is here and with it comes the need to winterize your sprinkler system. First off, what exactly does it mean to winterize your system? Well, winterizing your system is almost what it sounds like; it means

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Maintaining Your Lawn in the Fall

With Fall just around the corner, it is time to maintain your lawn with the correct techniques to keep it healthy for the coming months. There are many things that can happen during the colder months to ruin your lawn.

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What Exactly Is Xeriscaping?

Xeriscaping is the use of drought resistant plants in yard and landscaping design. These plants use less water than typical lawns and still provide a beautiful place to spend time. At Action Lawn & Landscape, LLC, in

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Types of Outdoor Kitchen Installations

Summer always seems to bring barbecues, pool parties, and a thousand other wonderful outdoor activities. Unfortunately, sometimes summer finds your home ill-equipped to handle those occasions. An outdoor kitchen

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The Importance of Irrigation Maintenance

Creating a beautiful landscape is an impossible task if you’re unwilling to maintain it or hire professional landscaping services in Reno, NV, to ensure weeds are pulled and the plants stay healthy. As part of a good

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Tips to Get a Good-Looking Lawn in Spring

It’s never too early to nurture your lawn. Do you know how to get your lawn in shape for spring? You don’t need to wait until summer to enjoy a beautiful lawn. Spring is the perfect time to for lawn care in Reno, NV.

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Tips for Preparing Your Lawn for Spring

Perhaps the best way to ensure you have a healthy, green lawn throughout the summer is to make sure you take care of it in the spring. There are a few things you can do this before summer hits to help your lawn be

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How to Shut off a Reno Lawn Irrigation System

1. Turn off your Irrigation System mainline shut off valve 2. Open Sprinkler System control valves, either manually or electrically from the controller, to relieve pressure on the Sprinkler System mainline 3. Slowly

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Reno Snow Removal Ice Melt Tips

- Mistake 1:Waiting until the last minute The benefit of pretreating is that you won’t need as much product in the long run because it prevents ice from bonding to the surface. - Mistake 2: Using the wrong product or

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Winter Watering for Reno Landscaping

- Should you water during drought? During periods of winter drought, people become rightfully concerned about their landscape plants and home foundations. During a winter drought, we encourage our customers to water

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Qualities of a Skilled Landscape Designer

If you’re looking to hire a landscape designer in Reno/landscape-design-installation-reno/, there are certain skills, traits, and characteristics that you should expect to find in anyone who works in this field . Reno

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6 Tips to Finding the Right Landscape Designer

The exterior of your home should be as perfectly manicured as the interior of it. After all, it’s the first thing people notice when they pull up to your house. If your home isn’t conveying the message you want it to,

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The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Landscaper

Your perfectly designed home deserves a perfectly designed yard. If you don’t have the energy to pick out mulch, plan your flower beds, or plant trees to create a beautiful yard, it’s time to hire a professional company

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When to Hire Landscaping Services

In a survey of over 2,000 adults in the United States, conducted for the National Association of Landscape Professionals, 67 percent agreed that hiring a professional landscape firm would allow them to have a lovelier

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How to Prepare Your Lawn for Fall

While you may associate lawn care with summertime, maintaining a healthy lawn requires year-round care. To keep your lawn healthy during fall and winter, there are steps you need to take during the summer to prepare

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Can I Aerate My Lawn in the Spring?

Lawn aeration is an importance aspect of lawn maintenance in Reno/lawn-maintenance-reno/ because removing many small plugs of soil and grass helps water, nutrients, and oxygen to better penetrate the roots. It is true

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Tips for Easy Snow Removal

With winter well on its way, it’s important to have a plan in order to remove snow as it comes. Snow can damage your property and cause safety issues if ignored. Follow these tips for easy snow

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The Importance of Snow Removal

Although people complain about snow when they have to drive in it or when they’re down and dreaming of a warm summer’s day, there’s nothing quite like waking up in the morning to a majestic white landscape. It’s fun to

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The Do’s & Don’ts About Winter Pruning

The winter season is the best time to prune away those plants and trees here in the Reno area. During this time, most plants and trees go to sleep just like a bear in order for them to be ready to bloom in the spring.

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What Full-Service Lawn Maintenance Means

When lawn care companies say they provide full-service lawn maintenance, it’s important to note that this can mean various things depending on the quality of the company. That’s why it’s important to have an idea of

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Advantages of Automatic Sprinkler Systems

There are a lot of things to do in order to keep a lawn green and healthy: mowing, trimming, fertilizing, aerating, the list seems to go on forever. For most working Americans, taking care of a lawn can seem impossible

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The Importance of Landscape Design

As a homeowner there is no denying the importance of landscaping to the exterior of a home in Reno or wherever you live. Homeowners who take pride in their lawn and garden and put in some money or elbow grease can yield

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7 Fall Lawn Care Tips for Reno

As the summer comes to end, it’s important to continue with your routine lawn care in Reno in order to keep your lawn looking its best throughout the year. The work that you put into your lawn in fall will also

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RENO MAINTENANCE – BRUSH FIRE PREVENTION

RENO MAINTENANCE – BRUSH FIRE PREVENTION It’s that time of year where the Reno temperature is rising, causing property owners to water their plants more often and most importantly maintain any easy flammable objects

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Do I Really Need Fertilizer for My Lawn?

A lush, green lawn is a beautiful sight to behold, and getting there doesn’t have to be an impossible pursuit. Even a punishing desert landscape is no match for our advancing technology when it comes to Reno lawn

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How to Care For Your Lawn

Do you know how to take care of your lawn this summer? Grass needs to be maintained carefully. Otherwise, you could end up with a prickly, brown mess. Whether you decide to hire a lawn service in Reno to maintain it for

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How to Get Grass to Grow

While it may seem quite easy, getting grass to grow requires a careful combination of fertilization, water, and soil. Before laying down sod or seed, it’s important to understand exactly what your lawn will need to

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When to Fertilize Your Lawn in the Spring

If you want your yard to be able to flourish during the summer, it’s important to know how to prepare it during your spring lawn maintenance/lawn-maintenance-reno/. One of the most important things you can do is learn

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4 Landscaping Tips Everyone Should Know

Landscaping can be a frustrating aspect of home-ownership. This is especially true if this is your first home and you are just starting out with landscaping. The landscape of your home sets the mood and the tone for

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How to Prepare Your Yard for Spring

Spring is nearly here. While spring means outdoor fun, longer days, better weather, and rainy afternoons, it also means you need to prepare your yard if you want it to look healthy and green all summer. When the snow

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7 Winter Yard Maintenance Tasks You Should Do

Once the weather starts turning colder in the fall, lots of people seem to think they no longer have to do any outside yard work. Beyond raking fallen leaves, there are many outdoor tasks that can help ensure your yard

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3 Ways to Prep Your Yard during Cooler Months

Did you know that the secret to a beautiful lawn in the spring and summer months is proper care for your yard during the fall and winter months? Yes, this might sound strange, as very little growth and development

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5 Super Useful Tips to Improve Your Yard

When it comes to your yard, you want it to look as beautiful and healthy as possible. Most landscapes are considered an investment and can add considerable value to the equity of your home. To protect your investment,

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How to Restore Your Lawn

Is your lawn looking a bit haggard? Don’t worry because there is a simple process that you can follow to restore you lawn to a lush, green lawn that will perfectly complement your landscaping. At Action Lawn &

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3 Ways to Transform Your Yard

Are you looking to dramatically improve your home’s curb appeal? While there are plenty of great ways you can remodel your home, nothing will have as big of an impact as landscaping your yard. A beautiful lawn and

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3 Strange Facts about Maintaining Your Lawn

The grass is always greener where you water it, right? Actually, that’s not really the case. While you may think that lawn care is easy, there is a pretty exact science to getting your lawn looking lovely. Check out

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Reno Lawn Care: Maintenance Tips

Reno Lawn Care: Maintenance Tips To keep your lawn in good shape here are a few tips we share with our customer. 1\. Mow frequently with sharblades. Keeping your mower blade sharp is important to keepyour lawn from

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Reno Maintenance : Pollen causes allergies

Reno Maintenance: Pollen in action Reno Maintenance: Pollen attracts insects like bees Reno Maintenance: Pollen causes Allergies Many of us with allergies are extremely miserable around this time. Though sometimes the

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Sprinkler System Winterizing

Why use an irrigation professional to winterize my system? Sprinkler system winterizing is an important step to not only protect your system from freeze damage, it sets up the reactivation of your lawn sprinkler system

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Fall Is Here

Fall Lawn Care Tip 1: Aerate Aeration is a process of removing soil cores from your lawn to help improve water, air and nutrient movement in the soil. Aerating your lawn reduces soil compaction from foot and lawn mower

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Trimming & Pruning

1. Start with the dead and damaged branches, because they make the plant look bad, and encourage rot and disease. Also cut out wilted, dried or diseased branches as soon as you spot them, to remove the disease before it

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2 Trees That Attract Bees

Bees need a diversity of pollen and nectar sources that bloom from early spring to late fall. They prefer flowers that are white, yellow, and purplish-blue to red flowers. When planting your bee garden it is important

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Preventing Rust From Your Patio Furiniture

Metal patio furniture makes an excellent choice for outdoor spaces. It is elegant and attractive and enhances the ambiance of the patio. Metal furniture is durable and with minimal maintenance, will last several years.

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Over Watering Your Lawn

- Fungus: Fungal lawn diseases take advantage of moist conditions to spread and thrive. If your lawn has a blight, mold, or patch problem, you’re probably overwatering. It could also just be that you might be watering

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When It Rains, It Pours

There are quite a few reasons why rain gives grass the upper hand when you try to mow. Grass behaves like people when it’s getting rained on: it hunches over. The result is that many blades of grass get pushed over, not

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Height Does Count

Most grasses have a range of recommended mowing heights. Stay at the upper end of that range when the lawn is under stressful conditions, such as hot weather or drought, or if you have a shady lawn. In cooler weather,

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Keep Your Pavers Looking New

For those of you who have lived in the Reno, Nevada area all their lives know that the dry weather can take a toll on your beatiful landscaping upgrades and patio furniture. Heres how to keep your old pavers looking

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5 Common Lawn Diseases

1. Snowmold is most common to Kentucky Bluegrass and Fescues in regions where snow falls and sits on the lawn for extended periods of time The best prevention for snowmold is to aerate often. Improving water drainage,

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5 Most Commen Lawncare Mistakes

1. WATERING: Water is essential to all life . . . too little water and we die, too much and we drown. The same is true of the grass in our lawns. Water makes up 70% to 80% of the weight of our lawn grasses and the

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Spring Time Sprinkler Tips

- Water between midnight and sunrise from May to October to minimize water lost to evaporation. - Monitor how many minutes you can run your sprinkler system before water starts to run off the property. Stop the run

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5 Most Common Lawn Diseases

1. Brown patch appears as circular patches in the lawn that are brownish yellow in color and range from 6 inches to several feet in diameter. It effects all cool season lawn grasses but is especially harmful to ryegrass

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5 Early Spring Time Tips

Apply Lime in Early Spring Months – Depending on your soils, pH, you may need no lime, a small amount, or a great deal in order to maximize the spring growth. March is Too Early For Insect Control – Most insect’s life

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5 Tips for Maintaining your Concrete driveway

Clean your concrete or masonry driveway on a regular basis. How often really depends on how much use the driveway gets and how much road traffic and other pollutants you have in your area. A pressure washer is the best

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Benefits of Drip Irrigation

Drip irrigation involves placing tubing with emitters on the ground along side the plants. The emitters slowly drip water into the soil at the root zone. Because moisture levels are kept at an optimal range, plant

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Pitch & Bark Moths

Pitch moth attacks appear as large, ugly masses of pitch that form at a wound site in response to larval feeding beneath the bark. Bark moth attacks typically produce less pitch. Adult moths are rarely observed and are

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Patio Improvements

You may think of your stubborn wooden deck or outdated patio as an eyesore in your yard, but with smart design decisions and creative use of landscape, your outdoor space can become the perfect place to escape. Think

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Winter Watering Tips

If you’ve ever experienced the discouragement of lawn winter kill or dead landscape plants in spring, try winter watering. Even though most landscape plants are dormant and brown, they need to be watered periodically.

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Thatching & Aeration

Maintaining a lawn in Reno Nevada can be a little tough sometimes with the unpredictable weather. The constant change between dry and wet can really be harmful to our lawns if they arent given the proper treatments.

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Preventing tree scalding

Preventing sun scald is pretty easy,quick, and cheap. Tree wraps are commonly available at your local garden shops or home improvement stores in the plant department. The wraps are composed of materials that help to

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Tree Scalding

Sun scalding and frost cracking are similar and occur during the colder months, but sun scald is typically less severe. A sharp drop into freezing temperatures can result in cooling rapidly within the bark. Destroying

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Pre-Emergent Time

Pre-emergent herbicides prevent the germination of seeds by inhibiting a key enzyme preemergent herbicides are used to prevent crabgrass from appearing in summer lawns. Pre-emergent herbicides are applied to lawns in

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Thawing out frozen pipes

If you turn on a faucet and only a trickle comes out, suspect a frozen pipe. Locate the suspected frozen area of the water pipe. Likely places include pipes running against exterior walls or where your water service

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Preventative Action

Preventing frozen pipes If you haven’t done so already, drain the water from swimming pools and sprinkler lines. Do NOT put any type of antifreeze in these lines unless directed to. Remove drain and store hoses used

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Why pipe freezing is a problem

Water expands as it freezes. This expansion puts tremendous pressure on whatever is containing it, including metal or plastic pipes. No matter the “strength” of a container, expanding water can cause pipes to break.

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Winter Waterfalls

If your waterfall moves at least 200gph, it can run throughout the winter. You must be careful with ponds that have long or slow moving streams and waterfalls. Ice dams can form around these areas and divert water over

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Seeding in the Winter

Want to reseed in the winter? There are a handful of options, all affected by temperature and irrigation. You can try dormant seeding, which occurs when the tempurature has cooled and the ground has endured some frost.

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Keeping things green when it’s grey out

Fall has finally settled in. With the sun disappearing earlier and the days getting cooler which has slowed plant growth. It would be lawn suicide to mow at this time. Yet we still see people happily ruining mowing

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