Setting home plate, with help from the 1st Baptist Owasso Youth Group.
Last week, the youth group from 1st Baptist Owasso spent one day of their spring break in helping us finish up the LawnAmerica Field at the Hutcherson YMCA in north Tulsa. We started last spring with an empty lot, filled with old trees, weeds, bushes, and junk. Through alot of hard work, along with about $35,000 from LawnAmerica and some of our customers and friends, we’re finally to the point of playing baseball on the new field.
The Hutcherson YMCA is a fairly new facility, serving families and kids in north Tulsa. Now that they have a nice, new youth baseball field to play on, the youth baseball program should really take off. Many thanks goes out especially to our friends at Oklahoma Landscape & Irrigation for donating and installing the irrigation system, which saved us about $10,000. Thanks to Tulsa Sod & Mulch and Chandler Materials, who donated gravel and warning track material for some nice, final touches.
The first official whiffle ball game at LawnAmerica Field.
Practice starts next week for the kids at Hutcherson, so we were able to finish the field just in time. Look for the official grand opening soon in early April, celebrating the completion of LawnAmerica Field in north Tulsa.
But wait…now that the field is ready, and spring is finally here, wouldn’t you know it. It’s snowing on the first day of spring! Gota love Oklahoma weather. How can it be in the 70′s one day, with 6 inches of snow covering the ground (and our nice new baseball field) the next day! So we’ve hitched up our snow plows again at LawnAmerica and unpacked the ice melt stored on our high racks at the warehouse
The snow won’t hurt the grass or landscape any. In fact, after melting, it will provide some needed soil moisture and water in pre-emergent herbicide that was applied this past week. Snow or cold temperatures have no negative effect on pre-emergent herbicides applied. In fact, the cooler the soil temperatures are, the longer the Barricade pre-emergent will last in the soil on into the season.
Back in the day, we played on fields that were nothing fancy. Nor were the uniforms, with blue jeans, PF Flyers, and hats with a big F. I'm in there somewhere with the rest of the dorks. Don't remember if we were any good, but looks like we had fun.
Don’t know about you, but here at LawnAmerica, we’re ready for spring to get here and stay! The new baseball players at out new YMCA youth baseball field in North Tulsa are ready for spring also, with the opportunity to practice and play on a brand new baseball field.
Tags: Baseball, Crabgrass, springtime, YMCA, youth baseball
