We’re off  and running with our 35th season. Our lawn technicians are out making your first applications so you will be seeing them in the next few weeks.   One of the first things that we have seen this spring is the large amount of snow mold and mice damage that occurred over the winter.  Snow mold looks like yellow matted down patches in the lawn areas and mice damage looks like squiggly yellow trails in the lawn.  (To find out more information about snow mold visit www.umassturf.org  .)  As the weather warms up, those areas will start to heal.  To help the recovery, lightly rake out those areas.

Please remember that the first application is a pre-emergent crabgrass control so please don’t plan to do any spot seeding as the pre-emergent prevents all seed germination.

Our irrigation crews are out as well.  Although - - - - I think you’d have to agree that it’s probably not much fun right now starting sprinklers all day  when the weather is a nice balmy 40 degree rainy day.   We will not be starting residential systems for a couple weeks when things warm up a bit.