Stores selling lawn and garden equipment and supplies (NAICS code 4442) saw a sales increase of about 5 percent.
Scotts Miracle-Gro manufactures and markets lawn and garden care products worldwide, while Deere makes lawn mowers, both walking and riding for your lawn care needs.
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The Hometown stores, which focus on small communities in 50 states, sell home appliances, consumer electronics, lawn and garden equipment, and hardware, plus Puerto Rico and Guam.
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"No one has had a commercial success in natural lawn and garden products, but I think it's a place where we can lead and innovate, " says Hagedorn, 50.
Not surprisingly, among the least profitable categories were two directly tied to the still-lagging real estate market: stores selling lawn and garden equipment and supplies, and building material and supplies dealers.
"Compaction is the biggest enemy of lawn grass, " said Reeves, a retired horticultural agent of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, who now hosts radio and television shows about lawn and garden interests.
The maker of lawn-and-garden products highlighted strong increases in Texas and Florida, two key early-season markets.
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Spring time is traditionally the best time of the year to plant, garden, lawn care, and generally do all sorts of home improvements.
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Despite becoming a wealthy and successful CEO who could easily afford to hire help, George Romney instilled this same work ethic in his kids by requiring them to mow the lawn, shovel snow, rake leaves, weed the garden, and clean the house.
Last March, with the help of local students who have been so incredible, we planted the garden on the South Lawn of the White House, and it allowed us to begin a conversation about the importance not just of healthy eating -- eating right, eating the good food -- but also about getting exercise into our lives.
Forty-two tons of soil were carried up three flights of stairs to create Bartlett's 2, 500-square-foot "country in the city, " planted with a lawn, an evergreen maze, a grape arbor, an apple orchard and a rose garden.
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