January 2008 Newsletters for ABC

Start the New Year with a New Clean Up For Your Lawn
With the winter holidays already behind us, it's time to look forward to the coming months of sunshine, flower buds and plants sprouting and maybe even some new green lawns. But before you get caught up in spring fever, it's time to look at what kind of clean-up is necessary for the lawn as well as other preparations to take this month.

Oak Wilt - Tips for Preventing the Deadly Oak Disease
In Texas, we have a green luxury that most of us take for granted. Whether in our front yards, neighborhoods, or local park, oak trees are considered to be majestic and beautiful trees that provide a lot of shade and greenery to our otherwise dull scenes. Especially in central Texas, besides the beauty of rolling hills, we have great oak trees to complement the entire scenery.However, oak wilt is threatening that beautiful scenery quite rapidly.

Bed Bug Pest Control
No longer thought of as just part of an affectionate good-night saying to your children, bed bugs have become something of a real-life nightmare for everyone. In recent news in New York City, a wide-scale epidemic of bedbugs has broken out throughout the city and even posh areas such as the upper East Side have had major bed bug problems. Read on for the bed bug reality in Texas and whether you should be concerned or not.

Winter - The Best Time to Paint Your Home in Central Texas
For years, many people have mistakenly believed the myth that you cannot paint outside during the winter. While in many states, due to freezing temperatures and harsh weather conditions, it is difficult to apply any kind of paint outside, it is simply not true in milder climates like we have here in central Texas. In fact, a long-lasting paint job is easier to achieve in winter rather than during the hot, humid conditions of summer.