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How Aeration Can Help Your Lawn Survive Drought Conditions?

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A drought can make your lawn look dull. But here are a few things you can do to help your lawn survive drought. Drought is a span of dry climates that can destroy a healthy yard. Cities mainly enforce water use limitations to deal with drought, which can restrict the amount of water you can use to keep your lawn green and healthy. After the drought has finished and restrictions are lifted, you could be left with a dull and damaged lawn. 1. Put lawn tasks on holdup: Drought situations are stressful for a lawn. For this reason, it is more reasonable to hold off on tasks like aerating and dethatching. Therefore, plants can keep on to as much moisture as feasible. 2. Schedule fertilizer applications for later: Prevent excess nitrogen fertilizer during hot and dry states. Over-fertilizing will destroy the lawn. It would help if you waited till early September to fertilize when the temperatures relaxed. 3. Keep weeds less: Weeds compete with the turf for all the necessary compone...

How to Safely Treat Fleas and Ticks on Your Cats

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A cat's warm and furry hair and nourishing blood supply are a flea's dream home. Protect your cat with a flea barrier to prevent these tiny pests from settling in. Here are a few different solutions to treat this problem: 1. Products to apply to your cat. On the spot, treatments are safer and more convenient, as well as more effective than traditional specks of dust, shampoos, or sprays. You can purchase them from your vet or online. Ask your doctor where your cat can apply the product, how much to apply, and how often to use it. If you're not getting the treatment from your doctor, first read the product label to ensure it's safe for pets. Some common over-the-counter medicines and brands include Fipronil, Imidacloprid, Selamectin, and Fluralaner. 2. Medicines for cats. A flea collar with flumethrin and imidacloprid (Seresto) may also work well. The pill nitenpyram (Capstar) kills adult fleas on your pet in just 30 minutes. But, it doesn't have any longer e...

Five questions to ask before hiring a pest control company

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When you think about hiring a pest control company, it can be almost impossible to find out what separates a great exterminator from a poor one. You might also be asking yourself if there’s any difference between one compared to another. But just like other service businesses, there will be some pest control companies that are better as compared to others. It can also be their experience or treatment quality and the products they use. A lot of these things and others can impact the final results.   There are five questions you should ask before hiring a pest control company:   What problems do you see in Current Pests? There are a lot of signs of various pest infestations in your home, and you have to be sure the technician you hire is able to identify them. This is important because different problems need different solutions. A pest control company that talks about using one general product for all pests, unfortunately, is not a company that understands pests or th...