Saturday, June 28, 2008

Battery powered lawn mower

Perhaps you may be in the market for a battery powered lawn mower. The video is awesome! When my lawn mower kicks the bucket, I'm going to look into this.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Bananas reaching $1 a pound

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html?em&ex=1214193600&en=d126069861c0a339&ei=5087%0A

With bananas reaching such high prices, why not grow your own bananas in the backyard? In fact, they are so easy to grow it isn't funny!

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Wow. Just wow.

Florida is home to 14 of the largest companies in the landscape industry, according to a list of lawn and landscape firms published by trade publication Lawn & Landscape.

Together, the companies on the publication's Top 100 list generated $7.1 billion in revenue in 2007. That represented 7.7 percent growth over 2006, slower growth than the year before. For 2008, the companies project an average 6 percent growth.

South Florida-based companies that made the list include Vila & Son Landscaping of Miami, which reported $64.5 million in 2007 revenue and Tropics North of Homestead, with $42.5 million. Miami's Dixie Landscape had $32.7 million and Stiles Landscape of Fort Lauderdale had $20 million.