Field Notes — Grass Reaper LLC https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/ Lawn care and landscaping advice for Northern Nevada, from a Gardnerville crew. en-us Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0800 Brown patches in August — heat, grubs, or your sprinkler? https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/brown-patches-august-diagnosis/ https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/brown-patches-august-diagnosis/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0800 Lawn Care Three very different problems that look identical from the porch. Here's how to tell them apart in about two minutes, before you waste money treating the wrong one. How to water a lawn in a high desert without wasting half of it https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/watering-lawn-high-desert/ https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/watering-lawn-high-desert/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0800 Lawn Care Most Northern Nevada lawns are watered too often and too briefly. Here's how to find your actual run time with a tuna can and fifteen minutes. Why retaining walls fail here — and it's almost never the rock https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/why-retaining-walls-fail-drainage/ https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/why-retaining-walls-fail-drainage/ Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800 Hardscape A leaning wall is a drainage problem wearing a stone costume. What actually holds a slope back in freeze-thaw country, and how to spot a wall that was built wrong. Spring sprinkler start-up in the Carson Valley, step by step https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/spring-sprinkler-startup-carson-valley/ https://thegrassreaper.com/blog/spring-sprinkler-startup-carson-valley/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0800 Irrigation Charging an irrigation system too fast is the most expensive five minutes of the year. Here's the order we do it in, and what to look for on the first run.