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Andy's Landscape and Lawn Landscape and lawn service. Bulk mulch, topsoil, and landscape rock available for pickup or delivery. Tractor tilling, grading and seeding/strawing.

Residential/commercial mowing, fertlizing, and landscape maintenance. Veteran owned.

The Red Twigg dogwood is awesome little shrub .. beautiful in all four seasons ..
10/23/2026

The Red Twigg dogwood is awesome little shrub .. beautiful in all four seasons ..

great addition to any landscape… big or small ….grasses do it all…very little care and easy to grow !!!
10/22/2026

great addition to any landscape… big or small ….grasses do it all…very little care and easy to grow !!!

10/22/2026

Thank you Andy's Landscape and Lawn for your donation to our Switch Witch event! 🎃

fall colors are approaching …
10/19/2026

fall colors are approaching …

10/18/2026

There's a reason some folks swear by oak firewood while others are perfectly happy burning pine. And once you've spent a few winters keeping a wood stove going, you start appreciating what each type of wood brings to the fire.

Take Eastern White Pine and White Oak, for example. They're both useful firewood, but I wouldn't expect them to do the same job. Pine is lighter, usually easier to split, and catches fire relatively quickly when properly seasoned. That's handy when you're getting the stove started on a cold morning and don't feel like spending half an hour coaxing a flame out of stubborn logs.

Oak is a different story. It's dense, heavy, and generally takes more patience to season. But once you've got a good fire established, dry oak can provide steady heat and long-lasting coals. That's particularly useful on those freezing evenings when you'd rather enjoy your warm living room than keep walking back to the woodpile.

The difference in heat output is substantial. A full cord of seasoned Eastern White Pine contains roughly 15.9 million BTU, compared with approximately 29.1 million BTU for White Oak. That's nearly twice as much potential heat from the same stacked volume. Of course, those are estimates, and actual performance depends on moisture content, wood quality, and burning conditions.

Now, here's where people sometimes get frustrated. You can buy excellent oak, stack it carefully, and still end up with a disappointing fire if the wood hasn't dried sufficiently. Oak often needs considerably more seasoning time than pine, sometimes well over a year, depending on log size, climate, and storage conditions. A moisture meter is worth having, regardless of which species you burn.

And pine? It gets an unfair reputation sometimes. Properly seasoned pine can be burned in a suitable wood stove, although it generally burns faster and produces shorter-lived coals. Excessive chimney deposits are primarily associated with poor combustion and burning damp wood, not simply with choosing pine.

Personally, I wouldn't mind having both in the woodshed. Pine for getting things started and shorter fires, oak for longer-lasting warmth.

Because when winter settles in, the important thing isn't having the most expensive firewood. It's having dry, properly seasoned wood that suits your stove and the way you heat your home.

10/18/2026

Grass keeps growing under that leaf blanket right up until the ground freezes, and a thick mat starves it of light and air. So will a few mower passes handle your yard and spare you a pile of bags, or do these leaves need to come off before snow seals them in?

10/18/2026

Saw three crispy, brown mums sitting by the curb for trash collection this morning. It’s not even October yet. Happens every single autumn. Folks spend good money on these massive, gorgeous displays, set them on the porch, and make one very understandable assumption that practically guarantees the plant will be dead in a fortnight. It isn't a lack of fertilizer, and it isn’t the cold nights. The real issue is hiding right underneath all those flowers. Once you understand what’s actually happening inside those plastic nursery pots, you'll never lose a mum before Thanksgiving again. I've put the explanation down in the comments. It takes ten seconds to fix once you know.

10/18/2026

For years I've watched people tip faded potted mums straight into the compost bin come November. It always makes me chuckle quietly, because these aren't disposable decorations at all—they're resilient perennials just waiting for a second act. If you want a mass of bold autumn blooms next year without spending another penny, there are four distinct ways to winter them over. One easy trick—burying the plant while still inside its plastic nursery pot—uses a natural thermal principle that almost guarantees success. And if you'd rather not dig up the yard, there's a surprisingly simple indoor spot where they will happily 'sleep' until spring. I've broken down all four methods in the guide below, including the crucial detail to look for at the garden center that decides whether a mum will survive winter or not.

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1401 E Main Street
Casey, IL
62420

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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