How Do Pesticides Affect Our Children? Pound for pound, children have much higher exposures to pesticides than adults do, just through normal daily activity. And what’s especially frightening is how vulnerable children’s brains are to pesticides during fetal and early childhood development. Researchers are learning that children’s developmental processes are easily disrupted by small amounts […]
Why Choose Organic Lawn Care? You have a lot of choices when it comes to lawn care, so why choose organic? Let’s start with nutrition. When you choose which foods to eat, you want a well-rounded diet with important nutrients to sustain your body and ensure your good health for a lifetime. When you fill […]
The Sterns have lived in their home for 15 years, and for most of it, the back yard has been a water-logged mess. Over the years, they have gotten help from at least five different landscapers who tried to fix their backyard drainage problem. Nothing worked. The ducks, however, loved their back yard. “We had […]
A Few of Our Favorite Natives and Pollinators to Beautify Your Garden Want to plant a natural garden filled with natives that are beautiful and sustainable? If you love to garden, chances are pretty good that you are hearing a lot about native plants and how critical they are in helping restore balance to our […]
Fostering a True Love for Gardening It’s great when we hear from our customers who love our mission of creating safe lawns with organics, and even greater when we’ve helped inspire them to discover a new passion for gardening and the outdoors. For some customers, putting their lawn in our hands gives them the peace […]
Our New Team Approach to Serving You We’ve always believed that our attention to customer service is one of our greatest assets (just behind not putting any chemicals down!). In our effort to continually improve your experience with Greenwise, we are excited to announce our new Client Relationship Management team. Just in time for the […]
Beware of the yellow buttercup It’s that time of year when you might be noticing some pretty yellow flowers blooming in your garden or lawn, but don’t be fooled. They have the power to destroy your garden. Seriously. We’ve been getting several calls asking us, “What’s that little yellow flower that just popped up in […]
I admit, rolling my t-shirts and organizing my drawers brought me a certain amount of joy this past winter. But, seeing the Greenwise crew performing a spring clean up, sparked some real joy. They edged my lawn and my garden beds, raked up and got rid of any remaining leaves, cleared debris, emptied old planters […]
What Is Mulch and Why Do I Need it in My Garden? I don’t know about you, but my garden goes from dowdy to dressed for Saturday night after I install mulch. An instant makeover. Basically, mulch looks amazing and naturally suppresses weeds while preventing soil and nutrient erosion. Typically, you add mulch to the soil […]
Has Your Turf been Hit with Snow Mold? Our spring season has just begun, and Andy, one of our turf technicians, is seeing quite a few patches of snow mold. Snow mold is something we can see in the Chicagoland area after a long winter. The good news is that it’s fairly easy to resolve. If […]
