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In our household, dad is mainly in charge of the yard care. If this is the case in your household, a great gift for dad would be the gift of TruGreen lawn service. TruGreen makes maintaining your lawn easy by delivering customized care solutions that are effective, innovative and responsible. They listen to you and, after a thorough inspection, they will recommend a solution that’s right for you and your yard.

Here’s few FREE tips from Ben Hamza, Ph.D, director of technical operations of TruGreen to prepare your yard for a healthy summer.

  1. Clean Area: Thoroughly clear dead leaves and debris from flower beds and lawn that may impede new spring growth.
  2. Prune: Conduct corrective pruning of trees and shrubs to enhance plant appearance and vigor, and thin rather than top-shear overgrown shrubs and trees to preserve their overall shape. Make sure not to prune trees and shrubs that bloom in early spring, with the exception of removing dead branches.
  3. Mulch: When your lawn is actively growing, return grass clippings back to the soil for added lawn nutrients and consider using composted materials to nourish plants. Apply three inches of organic mulch to base of shrubs and trees to help conserve soil moisture and to reduce weed pressure, but be mindful not to cover the flare of the tree base.
  4. Right Plant, Right Place: Plant the right type of grass for your lawn to ensure a green, healthy turf. Where grass has difficulty growing, plant shade-adapted ground covers for landscape appeal.
  5. Feed: Spring lawn, tree and shrub roots seek nourishment after the dormancy of winter. Keep fertilizer on target to prevent run-off and sweep fertilizer granules that may reach pavement back onto your lawn. Use a trained professional company, such as TruGreen, that offers customized solutions to lawn and landscape problems based on your region’s needs.
  6. Check Irrigation: Follow the owner’s operating manual to take an automated sprinkler system out of hibernation. Ensure sprinkler heads and related water lines are working properly. Give your lawn a slow, steady watering about once a week, but adjust depending upon rainfall, grass and soil type in your area. Also ensure the irrigation system covers your landscape efficiently. For example, you can place a one-inch deep food can in the middle of the lawn area to measure the depth of water collected after each watering cycle to ensure uniformity.
  7. Protect Against Elements: The beautiful blooms of spring are vulnerable to frost. With an expected cold snap, cover flowering plants before the sun goes down to maximize heat trapped by the plants. Create a tent of warmth with plastic tarps, cardboard, bed sheets or special plant frost protection blankets available at your local nursery or home improvement retailer.

Interested in creating a Outdoor Oasis? I bet you could with $25,000! TruGreen is celebrating real stories for creating your ideal outdoor living room by offering the TruGreen TruStories Sweepstakes through October 16, 2011. One Grand Prize winner will win a $25,000 MasterCard gift card, which would be perfect for creating your perfect outdoor space. There are only prizes too. See complete details www.TruGreenSweepstakes.com/win.

To get kids interested in the diverse plant world, TruGreen has collaborated with Memphis Botantical Garden to launch My Botanic Planet. This is a FREE (we love FREE) online educator resource to inspire elementary students interest in the plant world. Visit www.mybotanicplanet.comto access lessons in botany and related games & activities for your child.

How would you like to win a $125 TruGreen gift card? One lucky Bargain Briana reader will win a gift card, which is good for approximately two TruGreen treatments for lawn, tree, and shrub care.

 

How to Win?

Prize: $125 TruGreen Gift Card

You can enter up to 4 times with the following methods:

1. Leave a comment: How healthy is your yard looking right now?

2. Become a Facebook Liker of Bargain Briana on Facebook.

3. Tweet the following on Twitter:

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4. Subscribe to my free newsletter via email or RSS. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry. If you are already a subscriber, leave a comment letting me know you are already subscribed.

Please leave a comment for each additional entry.

Giveaway ends Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3 p.m. EST.

Winner will be chosen by random. Be sure bargainbriana@gmail.com is in your safe sender list as you don’t want to miss the email if you are the chosen winner.

**Please note: The companies have 6-8 weeks to ship prizes.


This giveaway was sponsored by TruGreen as part of the Win Giveaways Father’s Day Bash. This Post was written by me and was not edited by the sponsor. Read more on my Disclosure Policy. Find more information on the terms for this giveaway on the Win Giveaways Facebook page.

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Comments

  7. My yard is VERY unhealthy right now! We bought our house in forclosure so it is covered in weeds!!
    rahuss85 at gmail dot com

  15. The front yard is looking really great!! Hubby is working hard on it every night and we have a fantastic veggie garden on the side of the house. The back yard…we have two dogs and one is a Boxer/German Shepherd mix…who loves to dig!! :( At least her big dirt holes make for great mud pie making spots for me and the 3 year old!!

  28. Our yard is horrible! Been here five years and still combating weeds no matter what we do. sprayed some weed killer one day and came home from work the next day and the whole yard was brown. There is also two spots in out front yard where we have attempted to grow shrubs but they keep dying. HELP! I want great curb appeal for once.

  39. this would be a great treat for the hubby and a nice break from the extreme heat we are having. he sure loves his lawn…. I like you on facebook

  43. My yard needs massive help especially from the dandelions .. and grass is patchy… it just needs help

  49. pretty healthy…just needs to be weeded some more

    chevybelair1 at juno dot com

  53. My parent’s yard is decent, but there are lots of weeds. It bothers my dad, but he just doesn’t have the time to do anything about it. I would love to give him this gift card for father’s day! :)

  69. We just moved in last fall so this spring was the first real look I’ve had at my lawn. It was pretty bad! I’ve been working my butt off and it’s coming around now. TruGreen would solve all my problems!

  94. My lawn is filled with weeds and would really like to win this GC in order to start a new life from my yard.

    Thanks!

  108. The yard looks pretty good thanks to our yard guy and my husband, but it could use some help in some areas, particularly in one bed that seems to be eaten up by bugs.

  112. I like to plant flowers but my husband likes doing the rest of the yard. This would make the perfect gift.

  118. my yard is pretty healthy right now since we had lots of rain this spring

  128. Our yard is always mowed, my husband tries to get to the bushes in the front. Look out for the jungle in back though :-)

  133. I would love this $$ we have Trugreen now and our lawn looks pretty good, but I would use it for a tree/shrub application. We’ve never done that.

  147. My lawn is covered with dandelion weeds! Spreading to the neighbor’s grass as well! Help!

  151. Our yard is looking okay but my husband has to water it like crazy to survive the heat wave!

  152. Our yard looks rather healthy, with the exception of our flower bushes needing a good weeding.

  155. My yard looks fairly healthy right now because the grass is green, the trees are in full bloom and are garden is growing. My husband is pretty good with the yard but he deserves a break!

  161. Our lawn is about to look like a flower patch thanks to the Morning Glory that’s about to bloom. We need serious help.

    I have liked you on FB.

    I have also signed up for your newsletter.

  162. My yard could use lots of help…weed treatments, new plugs, etc Such a long project for the summer…

  172. Our lawn is looking pretty good, but we haven’t seen the sun here much yet….lots of rain

  175. My yard is so so right now it has lots of dandelions so definetly in need of some weed control.

  181. My lawn looks ok. A few spots need reseeded. The flower beds also need a lot of work.

  186. my yard is over run with weeds…we just bought this house in Nov 2010, this is our first spring, and there is so much to do!

  187. I already subscriber to your RSS feed! thanks for the giveaway! Have a great day.

  188. Our yard could use some love! TruGreen would do the trick! Thansk for the giveaway!

  189. i subscribe to your emails too! Thanks for all of your hard work. I really appreciate it!

  191. My lawn…the first goal when we moved in was green (rather than just mud)….now, we would like that green to be weed-free. We would love this gift. Unfortunately, lawn service is not in our debt-reduction budget….this would go a long way in my world!

  193. I live in Florida, so my lawn looks brown and dried out. It is sunny and we have not had any rain, so please pick me!

  194. Thanks for this giveaway opportunity! I used to have trugreen but had to hive it up this year and do it myself to save money but would love to have them come out for a few treatments. I’m a Facebook fan and get you emails. Thanks!

  195. Mine is looking pretty rough since we just moved into out new place. We barely have any grass and it’s mostly just weeds. We definitely could use this!

  203. Its not very healthy right now. lawn hasn’t been mowed for 2 months now and no weeds have been pulled.

  205. our yard is patchy and the front has a lot of weeds…also fighting the battle of the clover.

  206. Our lawn is a mess. We have just purchased the home and it has a long road ahead of it. Lots of weeds, bare spots, low spots, etc. It will take us some time to get it looking good.

  215. My lawn is a mess. We have an acre, it’s rural, and my Dad gets well, lazy. We have large tree stumps, tons f those huge snail things. IT gets mowed on occasion but it is not really taken care of. Would be a great present for my Dad maybe get him started again. :)

  221. Our yard is looking better than last year, but still in need of help. Random spikey weeds and a few patches dirt.

  222. Since we live in Portland, Oregon and we get a lot of rain, our yard is full of moss!

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