Cold weather and lawns

BRR! We have hit a really cold spell.
-14 right now and an overnight low on Wednesday expected to be - 18 C. That is 0F.
With the wind chill it will feel even more frigid.

On the bright side we are hoping that these cold temperatures combined with the lack if snow will kill off a few (or maybe a lot) of the lawn insects like grubs, chinch bugs, leatherjackets.

When we had that heavy snowfall on December 26th, the ground had not had a chance to freeze. I know that because my son's dog passed away just before New Year's and we were able to dig a nice grave in our large back yard. Even though there was close to 6 inches of snow, the ground was not frozen beneath.

Now that the warm weather of the January thaw melted most of the snow away, this cold weather is going to freeze the soil to a greater depth.
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I was on a lawn yesterday to do a lawn care quote. A couple of paces from the curb was a dandelion with yellow flower buds. (Top left corner of the photo)

My question is- did the dandelion flower come out due to the warm January thaw? A friend of mine from church who lives in Oakville, said her Snowdrops were blooming.

Or were these blooms still there from last fall?

Lastly - any guesses to whether we are going to have an early spring?

Guess we can wait til the ground hogs come out?

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Frosty lawn path

Cool white blades.
Sure footing if you
Step on the blocks.
Icy tips of grass.
Lead me too,
The way is sure.

Weeds still dying in late October

Even though the weather is cooling down weed treatments are still worthwhile to apply.
Weed treatments in this day and age in Ontario are not as good as the lawn care customers or the lawn care companies would like them to be. But this is what is available and the best that can be done with permissible products.

Happy Customers are the Rule

Happy Customers are the Rule

Mud Street Seeding

The city has had this median hydro seeded just this week. Hopefully this will grow well and be established by spring. During the spring this median is always a sea of yellow dandelion blooms

Oct 7/12 large garlic

7 x7 = 98 in a 4 x 8 bed

Grubs dying from Nematodes

Found these Nematodes on a lawn today. Their legs were still moving for a while. Lawn was treated August 27th. It appears that it takes some time for Nematodes to do their work.

There were other areas on the same lawn where the grubs were a lot healthier.

Nematodes are just not as consistently effective as we would link them to be.

The other problem is that the raccoons and skunks will still dig in the lawn. In the area where the dying grubs were found there was still a bit of digging going on