Do it Yourself: Landscape Planning

Many gardeners spend the winter pouring over seed catalogs for spring planting. For many, gardening involves planting a crop that grows for only one season and then is replaced the following year. Gardening requires constant repetition that produces temporary results...

Preventing Winter Animal Damage To Plants

[For information on identifying damage to your plants, read our article: Spot Animal Damage To Your Landscape.] If you haven’t protected your plants from animal damage yet, you still have time. Winter in northern climates is part of the natural process for...

Spot Animal Damage To Your Landscape

If you are observant you can take action as soon as you see animal damage in your landscape before it is too late! Every year I am amazed at the number of people who say they don’t have deer problems where they live in central Wisconsin. Yet, they have noticed...

Fall Planting Bliss

If you haven’t tried fall planting you are missing out on the easiest time of year to establish many types of plants. Bulbs, perennials, shrubs, trees and prairie plantings are all easier to plant in the fall. And most fall planting can go right up until the...

You Can Do It! Weed and Mulch in May

May is a great time for you to weed and mulch. The soil is soft and carefully removing quack grass from planting beds is possible at this time. If you want to freshen things up a bit a very light layer of mulch can improve the looks of your landscape. Avoid applying...

You Can Do It! Assess Your Own Landscape Needs

At Eco-Building & Forestry we developed The Property Owner Questionnaire to better serve our customers needs. It has become so popular that other landscape companies now use our Questionnaire for their own customers. Now you can use it to get started on your own...