Shaded lawns

QuestionI manage a mid sized lawn care operation in Scarborough, Maine. We maintain a variety of types of properties and have had some clients for decades. Many of these lawns improve under our care but

circles of dead grass on lawn

QuestionWhere my dogs (bitches)urinate on the lawn the grass dies and a circle of dark green lush grass grows up around the outside. How can I treat this? I am told that the ph needs to be adjusted. What can I use

white clover

QuestionIm getting more and more white clover on my lawn. Ive tried Scotts weed and feed but no change. What can I do to get rid of it? AnswerHi Lou, Using a POST-EMERGENT herbicide product to eradicat

baging vs mulching

Questionis it better to mulch or bag grass? AnswerHi Frank, To mulch or not to mulch.... This is an old debate and everone has their own opinion. Some people like using the mulching mowers. Those rated at a high

Fertilizing??

QuestionHi Kenneth: This year I am trying something new.I live in Detroit,MI and I have mostly kentucky bluegrass in my yard. This year we have been getting a lot of rain. But what I am doing differently is I

Different types of grass in my yard

QuestionMy yard is mostly composed of nice bluegrass, but mixed in with it is a lot of tall fescue and zoysia. The tall fescue looks terrible all of the time, and, because I live in Ohio, the zoysia is brown f

How to re-build the lawn ?

QuestionI am living in Boston area. I brought a house 9 months ago. Last 2 weeks, I had people to cut many trees in the backyard. Now, I get more sun light in the backyard and want to re-build the lawn. There are ma

Centipede Grass Maintenance

QuestionI live in Western South Carolina near Augusta Ga. Eighteen months ago I moved into a new house on the banks of a lake. I strip sodded much of my 1.2 acre lawn with centipede grass and

lawn health

Question------------------------- Followup To Question - Hi. I live in Cleveland, Ohio. I bought a new house and am trying to care for the lawn. I recently planted grass in areas where grass was dead. The grass c

prep for new sod

QuestionI want to put in sod. The area was weed infested. what to do with seed that is on the ground? AnswerEasy!! First make sure you have good, loose soil. If you have clay or too much sand, you are not goi

Weeds and clover

QuestionAre there products availoable which will remove weeds but not harm clover? AnswerHi Bill; I dont know of any. The broad leaf killers will kill clover, and the grass killers will not efect clover, but it wil

flat grass

QuestionHi My lawn is lying flat. If I were to rake it, it would all come out. It is very weak! What can I do to thicken it up instead of sodding? This would be too expensive. Thanks maryroses@h

bad grasses

QuestionLast year, the grass on my fathers grave was re-sodded. We added water everyday, and by August, his little area and surrounding few feet looked like a golf course. Dark green. Lush. --The surrounding area wa

What to lay around stepping stones?

QuestionHi Kenneth, I recently removed an old stepping stone path and replaced it with new stones. To do so, I had to pull up the existing lawn if you can call it that -- mostly a collection of various weeds & stra

Grass Types - Addendum

QuestionIve had some difficulty identifying the various grass types in my yard. Possibly you might be able to help me. I have the following: 1) Medium sized blades, growing in sunny areas, grows extremely rapidly,

clover & ants

QuestionWeve had a beautiful lawn till this summer. It seems were being overrun by ants & clover! We did a grub treatment & weed & feed in the spring, and used an ant killer (but they keep coming back after a

pets and lawn

QuestionI would like to know if there is any thing I can do to stop my lawn from dying every time my dog pees on it. I have brown spots all over my lawn. I heard there was something that can be added to the food to

Grass is declining

QuestionAbout 6 weeks ago I soded my lawn, 8 pallets to be exact. I tilled and fertalized the soil befor I laid the grass, I put down Floratam Hybrid. It did great for the first three weeks and then started to decli

Which Lawn seed to buy?

QuestionI will try to be breif. My lawn has history of weeds and bugs. I uses Franks weed and seed and now have holes in lawn ( burned lawn). What grass seed works best. People said if I use annual grass seed it won

growing a good and healthy lawn

Questionhi, iam a nigerian in kano state how do i grow a good and healthy lawn ? AnswerI am not familiar with the climate in nigeria and not know which types of grass would prevail in your area. However, provided y