What the Mission Blog is for
Answers to the questions we get every week. How often should you water in July. Why your sprinkler heads clog faster than your neighbor's in Austin's. When to start pool season so you're not paying for two months of heat you didn't use. What actually survives in a West Texas landscape bed versus what the big-box store tag promises. Practical stuff — written from crews who've done it, not blogs that scraped someone else's copy.
What's coming first
We're starting with the four topics our crews field the most questions on: hard-water damage to irrigation systems, opening a pool for a West Texas summer, native and adapted plants that actually thrive on the Llano Estacado for landscape maintenance, and mosquito-control timing handled inside turf solutions for Lubbock's May-through-September season. Each post gets checked against our own crew notes and against local sources — Texas A&M AgriLife, High Plains Underground Water Conservation District, City of Lubbock Water Utilities — before it goes live.
Who writes this
The posts come from the team — Tanner, our division directors, and the crew leaders who actually do the work. We'll cite our sources, we won't pretend to know things we don't, and if we find out we were wrong about something, we'll update the post and say so. That's the deal.




