Preparing your lawn for winter is essential to protect it from harsh weather conditions, proper winter preparation helps prevent damage to grass and soil, promoting a lush and beautiful lawn once the warmer months return.

The Essential Maintenance Calendar is a basic gardening guideline for maintaining your landscape in the high desert of Northern Nevada.

In recent years, establishing lawns by sodding has become popular. Sodding is desirable where complete cover is needed immediately and on steep slopes.

Drought or not, you can have beautiful landscaping, healthy plants and water savings once most plants are established, especially if you choose these plants and use good practices.

With our cool nights and abundant sunlight, the Truckee Meadows/Carson City environment is ideal for growing cool-season grasses which include bluegrass varieties, turf fescues, fine fescues, and perennial ryes.

When selecting plants for a landscape, gardeners need to consider several points very early in the planning process. Simply going to a garden center and picking out something pretty and planting it without considering several factors often lead to problems later.

Gardening in northern Nevada (the Truckee Meadows, Carson City and surrounding area) can be a challenging and often intimidating experience.

A basic gardening guideline for maintaining your landscape in northern Nevada and the Sierra.