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Congratulations Tom!February 28, 2012, 2:50 pm
Tom Mack is the proud winner of our WSU baseball season tickets drawing. Thanks to all of our customers who entered the contest. Be sure to visit the website often to learn about future offers and contests. Tendercare Lawn and Landscaping wishes the WSU Baseball Team continued success in the 2012 season. Go Shocks!
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TenderCare Receives 18th AwardDecember 15, 2011, 9:24 pm
On December 12th at The Mid America Green Industry council in Kansas City, TenderCare was once again proud to be recognized with an award for residential deign/build for the McCullough landscape and Backyard retreat. The awards are given for overall design, effectiveness, functional use and beauty. The awards are given covering both the states of Kansas and Missouri. This is the Eighteenth award TenderCare has received since 2002 from the Magic Council. We would like to thank this years award to not only all the hard working Tendercare employees who devote there efforts towards making each project special to every client we are privileged to serve, but also to the McCullough family for the trust they gave us with this project!
See more about the McCullough project as well as other past awards.
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Veterans Memorial WalkDecember 15, 2011, 8:26 pm
To the Brave young men and Women who have served and are currently serving our Country. Thank You for all that you do! Tendercare is proud to have been able to help make the new Veterans Memorial Walk in Derby a reality. We sincerely hope our donation of landscaping helps make this terrific project something that all can take the time to visit and pay respect to your true efforts in making sure each of us continue to have the freedom you and your loved ones have so valiantly given us!
Please take the time to visit this new Veterans Memorial in Derby KS. Each branch of our military system is honored along the walk in a beautiful setting located at Garret park just South of Chet Smith on the South end of town.
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Fall Newsletter Coming Soon!August 12, 2011, 6:14 pm
Watch for our Fall Newsletter coming out in the next few weeks! The best most accurate information available to get all of us through the Extreme 2011 weather we have experienced. Specials, Tips and advice on all your Growing Needs!
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7-on-7 Tournament and the Battle of the Big UgliesJuly 14, 2011, 2:01 pm
Community involvement continues to be very important to the entire staff at Tendercare. Recently our crews helped the Derby community by digging the tug of war pit for the recent 7-on-7 tournament and the Battle of the Big Uglies football competition held on June 25th to help the Derby High school football team. The Battle of the Big Uglies contestants competed in a medicine ball throw, 5 man sled race, quarterback throw, bench press, obstacle course, tire flip relay, and tug of war. 24 teams from across Kansas and Oklahoma participated in the event.
Photo courtesy of Catch it Kansas
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Root FeedingDecember 1, 2010, 7:21 pm
Your trees and shrubs are a growing investment that should increase in beauty and value with each passing season. But landscape plants often fail to flourish, and may even go into decline, due to lack of proper nourishment. Proper feeding of your ornamentals offer many benefits, including improved flowering, increased resistance to disease and increased ability to ward off insect attacks. Root feeding injects the proper plant foods directly into the root zone of plants which allows the fertilizer to be easily absorbed and quickly put to work.
Feeding helps compensate for poor soil or less-than-ideal planting locations. Over time, poorly located plants may gradually “decline” if not given proper care.
Feeding your trees and shrubs at least once per season is good preventative maintenance. The right diet helps to prevent many types of stress that weaken plants. When your trees and shrubs are in top health and growing well they’re often strong enough to fight off many infectious diseases or insect attacks without suffering serious permanent damage.
Balanced root feeding, scheduled on a regular basis helps to improve and protect your growing landscape investment.
Call TenderCare Lawn and Landscape today for more information at 316-788-5416 or visit www.tendercarelandscape.com
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Summer Fun IdeasDecember 1, 2010, 7:21 pm
What’s the best way to have summer fun? A swimming pool from TenderCare is the answer! If you have ever thought about a swimming pool now may be a great time to actually dive in and consider the fun & possibilities. Pools offer family entertainment and enjoyment year after year, unlike a family vacation that is over with in a week or two. Pools offer great exercise opportunities with very little impact on the joints.
Today’s pools are very easy to maintain and with what seems like endless options available from saltwater pools, which are very popular today, to fiber optics that boast shine and dazzle at night. There is a pool for just about everyone’s taste and budget.
TenderCare can design your swimming pool to achieve the most in pure backyard enjoyment. While many pool builders simply install pools, TenderCare creates the complete package. Our design team takes into consideration: proper placement, future additions, accurate equipment sizing and the overall fit into the family’s needs, just to mention just a few details.
A TenderCare pool is built to last! Contact us to see how a new pool can become your very own secret vacation hideaway. Or if you would like to see how a saltwater chlorinator or any of the wide array of options available might fit your existing pool give us a call, we offer the finest swimming pool repair and maintenance available.
Visit our website at www.tendercarelandscape.com or call 316-788-5416 for more information.
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Watering…The “Dog Days of Summer”December 1, 2010, 7:19 pm
As July and the “Dog days of summer” arrive, so will the need to water our lawns & plants! Up until now our area has experienced plenty of help in this department from Mother Nature. However, temperatures have started creeping ever so closely to the century mark and as one very wise person recently informed me that over the years Fathers Day begins what she calls the hot dry days of summer.
Well if this proves to indeed be true, and history generally tells us it does stay warm and a bit dry in July and August, we will need to really pay attention to our watering practices. Our landscapes and lawns will depend on us to insure they remain healthy during these times. Often times the tendency is to “over water” when the temperature rises and Mother Nature gets stingy with her help keeping plantings adequately hydrated.
All growing things depend on oxygen to survive if roots are held under to much water for to long they simply drown or they develop very shallow, unhealthy root systems. In over 30 years we have seen more people inadvertently kill new plantings with too much water than any other single thing. While in today’s society we all tend to be a bit busy with work schedules and social events, we must remember to care for our investment.
Technology in the irrigation field has grown significantly the past few years and now allows the user the ability to monitor proper watering through advanced controllers and much more efficient sprinkler heads and valves. The Solar Sync Sensor is, without a doubt, one of the best watering devices I have come across. It helps monitor the landscapes requirements much better than in the past. It not only shuts the system off during rainy periods, but adjusts watering times as the temperatures rise, as well as shutting down the system as freezing temperatures arrive in late fall and all at a very affordable price. Water saving, time saving and plant saving it really makes sense.
Want more information on proper watering? Check out our website @ www.tendercarelandscape.com click on the link ‘proper watering” on our home page.
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Spider MitesDecember 1, 2010, 7:17 pm
What Are Spider Mites?
Spider Mites can be a major problem on many woody ornamental plants. Feeding by spider mites causes’ discoloration, dirty appearance and early leaf drop. Spider mites are related to spiders, having eight legs. These pests are extremely small and are difficult to detect unless viewed with a 10X hand lens. Dormant periods are spent as adult females in protected places (plant or mulch debris) or as eggs. Under appropriate conditions adults resume activity or eggs hatch. Many generations can occur over a single season. Adult females can live for several weeks, laying many eggs daily. Mite development, from eggs to adults, occurs within days, which accounts for rapid build up of large damaging populations on plants.
How Spider Mites Cause Damage
Spider mites have needlelike mouth parts, which pierce cells and suck fluids out. The feeding action causes fine stippling or flecking of foliage. With large mite populations on plants, entire leaves can become yellow or bronze. Presence of shed skins, eggs, and mites give the foliage a dirty appearance. Sometimes, spider mites will spin very fine webs on the plant. These webs are not the coarse webbing produced by common garden spiders. Damage caused by spider mites not only affects the appearance and aesthetic value of the plant, but also its health and vigor. Early leaf drop can occur with some mite-infested plants.
Checking for Spider Mites
To check for the presence of spider mites, hold a white piece of paper under a branch. Shake the branch to dislodge mites onto the paper. If present, these specks will begin to move after a few seconds.
Plants Vulnerable to Spider Mites
Plants commonly damaged by spider mites include: arborvitae, azalea, beech, birch, boxwood, citrus, elm, euonymus, holly, honey locust, juniper, maple, pine, pyracantha, oak, rose and spruce.
Controlling Spider Mites
- Early detection and treatment is the key to control.
- Once populations build to damaging levels, control is difficult.
- Spray coverage of both leaf surfaces as well as stems is critical for mite control.
- Horticultural oils will help, applied both dormantly and in-season.
- For mites that do not overwinter on host plants, dormant oils may not work.
- Several applications of miticides may be necessary
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TenderCare’s Perimeter Pest ControlDecember 1, 2010, 7:16 pm
Pests can run…but they can’t hide!
Your home is a place for relaxing with your family. However, it can also be a place insect’s call home! Your home is an attractive place insects can invade in many ways. Some can enter through open doors and holes in screens, but many others enter through less obvious ways.
It is impossible to block all access into your home; however, one of the most effective methods for keeping out insects is a perimeter pest control application.
What is Perimeter Pest Control?
Our certified applicators will apply a barrier of residual insecticide to the foundation of your home as well as around the doorways, windows, vents and basement windows. This will create a barrier and will keep the majority of insects our of your home.
- Applications tailored to your needs, not a generic program.
- Applications last 4-6 weeks
- Affordable
- General pests controlled: ants, spiders, crickets, roaches, beetles, pill bugs, moths, etc.
Call TenderCare Lawn and Landscape TODAY to schedule your Perimeter Pest Control Treatment at 316-788-5416
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