Winter – Village Green Lawn and Pest

Protect Your North Texas Home from Costly Rodent Damage

By Stuart Tinsley
January 11, 2025
Pest Control
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As temperatures drop in North Texas, roof rats actively seek warm spaces—including your home and garage. These unwanted guests frequently access properties through alleyways, particularly in Richardson and older North Texas neighborhoods with detached garages. These rodents can cause extensive damage: Chewing through car engine wiring, leading to costly repairs Damaging home insulation and electrical […]

Winter Watering Guide: Keeping Your Lawn Healthy

By Stuart Tinsley
December 17, 2024
Lawn Health, Watering, Watering Solutions
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Your lawn may look dormant but still needs consistent care during the colder months. Many homeowners make the critical mistake of completely shutting off their sprinkler systems in winter, which can harm long-term lawn health. Watering Recommendations Basic Watering Schedule: Water one 10-minute burst once per week during winter If your irrigation controller has a […]

Winter Lawn Care: Sprinkler System Essentials

By Stuart Tinsley
December 4, 2024
Irrigation, Ken's Quick Tip, Lawn Health, Lawn Solutions, Sprinkler System, Watering, Watering Solutions, Winter Weather
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In today’s lawn health update, Ken addresses a common question from newcomers to North Texas: What should you do with your sprinkler system during winter? As part of our “New to North Texas” video series, we provide crucial information for recent transplants unfamiliar with our local climate. As we consistently emphasize, maintaining a seasonal, consistent […]

How Much Should You Water Your Lawn This Winter?

By Stuart Tinsley
December 13, 2023
Lawn Health, Lawn Solutions, Watering Solutions
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Even though your lawn and plants are dormant in winter, your soil still needs consistent watering to keep it healthy. One of the biggest mistakes you can make with your lawn’s overall health is turning your sprinkler system off during winter. We recommend that you water one ten-minute burst one day per week during the […]

How to Protect Your Sprinkler System from Freeze Damage

By Andrea
December 20, 2022
Sprinkler System, Watering, Watering Solutions
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With the winter blast heading our way, we’ve been getting a lot of phone calls from worried homeowners wondering what they should do to protect their sprinkler system from damage. First, ensure your lawn and landscape are well watered a few days before the polar plunge. That is the best way to protect your lawn […]

Should You Overseed Your Lawn with Winter Rye

By Andrea
December 12, 2022
Lawn Health
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In the fall, we get asked if it is a good idea to overseed a lawn with Winter Rye Grass. Overseeding is scalping a lawn and then ‘overseeding’ with Winter Rye which stays green all winter in North Texas. Many homeowners want a green lawn year-round, so they overseed without realizing that it can cause […]

Mid-February Lawn Health Update

By Andrea
February 14, 2022
Fertilization & Weed Control, Ken's Quick Tip, Lawn and Landscape Care, Lawn Solutions, Watering
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In this quick video, Ken gives a Winter Storm Landon update and what we are currently seeing in North Texas lawns. As we work our way through the last weeks of winter, Ken shares what we are doing in our customer’s yards to make sure they are ready for spring which is only five weeks […]

2022 Winter Watering Guide

By Andrea
December 12, 2021
Irrigation, Sprinkler System, Watering, Watering Solutions
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In winter, even though your lawn and plants are dormant, your soil still needs consistent watering to keep it healthy. One of the biggest mistakes you can make with your lawn’s overall health is to turn your sprinkler system off during our winter months. We recommend that you water one ten-minute burst one day per […]

What Is Wrong With My St. Augustine Lawn?

By Andrea
March 18, 2021
Brown Patch, February 2021 Freeze Solutions, St. Augustine Grass
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Over the past couple of days, the number of calls and emails we are getting about St. Augustine has dramatically increased. Many homeowners are wondering if the epic North Texas February freeze killed their St. Augustine grass (or at least big chunks of their lawn.) If you are wondering what is going on in your […]

Important Lawn & Plant Freeze Damage Update

By Andrea
February 25, 2021
Dallas Lawn Care, How To, Ken's Quick Tip, Landscape Solutions
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Last week we experienced some of the most extreme winter weather I have ever seen in North Texas. With temperatures that went from 0 to 70 in a matter of days, coupled with heavy snow for our area, our plants and lawns had to withstand some brutal conditions. Now that we’re warming back up and […]

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