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Brad is anal annoying psychotic picky about our lawn. He won’t let anyone touch it besides him (which kinda works well for me, considering we have lived in this house since 1996 and I have yet to start the lawnmower!). However, I have many friends who use a lawn service and even more friends who WISHED they had a lawn service!
As summer is quickly approaching, wouldn’t you like the chance to win $30,000 toward a backyard makeover? TruGreen, the nation’s largest professional lawn care service is helping to educate Americans on how unlocking their passion for their lawns can also positively impact the environment. TruGreen is suggesting 10 sustainable lawn care actions to homeowners to assist Americans environmental stewardship by adjusting individual lifestyles.
- Plant the right type of grass for your lawn to ensure a green, healthy turf. Where your grass has difficulty growing, plant shade-adapted ground covers for landscape appeal.
- Periodically test your soil for pH and basic nutrient content and adjust your fertilizer needs accordingly to maximize your lawn’s health and use of added nutrients and to allow new grass shoots to develop.
- Ditch the lawn mower bag and recycle grass clippings back to the soil for added lawn nutrients.
- Keep your lawn mower tuned, sharpen mower blades twice a summer, and mow your lawn regularly, keeping the grass higher to prevent scalping and to save water.
- Keep fertilizer applications on lawn target and off pavement. Sweep granules that fall onto pavement back onto your lawn.
- Give your lawn a slow, steady watering only once a week, if water restrictions permit, using an empty, one-inch food can to measure the amount of water applied to the lawn.
- Water your lawn early in the day and avoid on windy days to prevent moisture loss from wind and evaporation.
- Prevent grass clippings from entering storm drains by blowing clippings back onto your yard for added lawn nutrients.
- Apply three inches of organic mulch to base of shrubs and trees to lessen need for string trimming, to conserve soil moisture, and to reduce weeds.
- Read and follow all lawn care product instructions for proper usage.
TruGreen is also partnering with home improvement retailer Lowe’s to offer Americans the chance to customize their outdoor green spaces with The TruGreen Ultimate Backyard Makeover Sweepstakes. Upon entering, you will have a chance of winning the grand prize of a $30,000 Lowe’s gift card. In addition, 50 first prize $1,000 Lowe’s gift cards and 35 weekly prize $500 Lowe’s gift cards will be awarded. The sweepstakes is open to legal U.S. residents 18 years or older. Go to www.TruGreen.com/sweepstakes now through October 15 to enter and to obtain official sweepstakes rules.
And now the people at TruGreen have given me a TruGreen Treatment card to give away. The TruGreen treatment card is for $125 and is good for at least two treatments on a lawn.
To enter to win (each counts as a separate entry, so leave a separate comment!)
1. Leave a comment letting me know your biggest challenge with your lawn.
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3. Promote this giveaway. If you have a blog, write a post about this giveaway and leave a separate comment with a link. If you don’t have a blog, you can Tweet (and make sure that you are following me on Twitter!) about this giveaway and leave a comment letting me know that! You can post a link to this giveaway on your Facebook page or favorite forum! For each one of these that you do, leave a separate comment for another chance to win!
This giveaway will remain open until Monday June 14, 2010 at 11:59pm EST at which time I will pick a winner using Comment Contest and notify the winner by email
Good luck!
(and don’t forget to check out my other open giveaways!)
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Full Disclosure: I did not ask for nor did I receive any compensation for this post…not even a TruGreen gift certificate for myself (which is fine because Brad wouldn’t use it anyway…see the whole anal/annoying/psychotic/picky comment above)
I think that our biggest challenge is crab grass
I think our biggest problem is crab grass
The biggest problem with our lawn is weeds! We get weeds that spring up in the middle of our lawn, which is so annoying! We definately need help!
amber@waxpaper.org
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amber@waxpaper.org
Our biggest challenge is keeping my husband from spending ALL of our money on it! This would help!!
Keeping the deer and woodchucks out of my flowers! Grrr… Not to mention some kind of fungus in the back yard. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Both front and back lawns are very ‘spotty’ with grass and the occasional crabgrass and ant hill.
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My biggest challenge with the lawn in my husband! He cuts the lawn so short)so he doesn’t have to do it so often)that the lawn is all brown and dying.
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Clover and grubs are challenges here!
Our biggest challenge is weeds!!!
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Easy! The biggest issue w/ our yard is clover! If it wasn’t for the clover, we wouldn’t have a green lawn!
oh there are sooooo many weeds
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The biggest challenge w/my lawn is the weeds.
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Our home is two years old and we have struggled getting our lawn to grow, and now we are battling with a lot of clover!
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Brown/dead spots!
reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com
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reynoldsmommy at gmail dot com
We have kids running in the yard nonstop and the grass is dying from where they run.
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Biggest challenge would be those pesky weeds in the middle of the green grass.
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My biggest lawn challenge is dandelions
I follow on twitter, lunaj1456 and I tweeted
http://twitter.com/lunaj1456/status/16193880116
I added you to my google reader. Thanks for the Dad’s Rock giveaway bash – you all are awesome.
We just bought the house last year. We have a couple of bare patches where nothing grows (not even weeds :p), and we have a wide assortment of weeds throughout the rest of the lawn because the grass isn’t very healthy.
keeping it green (as opposed to brown and crunchy) during the sunny summer months!
I’d like to improve the look of my backyard. Thanks
I subscribed to your emails. Thanks
My biggest problem is i have no lawn
we do the best by building planter boxes for our tiny little garden. My kids LOVE it, though!!
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Promoted on twitter!!
Our biggest problem is the weeds.