Dogs tearing up my lawn

QuestionHi, I have two stafforshire terriers mixes (ones 80 lbs and the other is 55 lbs). They love to run around my yard and do laps tearing up the grass as they go. Ive never had great luck with my law

What is efficient and effective way to kill the weeds?

QuestionQUESTION: I have 1.5-arc lawn in GA. Currently my lawn is yellow, dormant, like most of lawns in the winter season. The temperature is about 50s. But the lawn has lots of weeds with purple flowers. I used th

Old sod

QuestionTheres an ad in our local area advertising a few pallets of old sod (cut 3 weeks ago). Its St. Augustine grass. Is there any possibility that with tons of water and great soil that any of this wo

Aerate bermuda with tiller?

QuestionI have Bermuda grass in the north Atlanta area. The soil has never been great and I have had aeration once or twice per year over the years, but now the grass is thinning and I believe most of the soil is ju

Using sugar to control weeds

QuestionI live in Middle Tennessee (Nashville Area) and I have been reading about using sugar on lawns to control weeds. Can you give me any information about this process? What kind of sugar and how much to apply.

sewing new seed after using pre-emergant

QuestionI ran an aerator over my yard and the spread a granule pre-emergent over the yard. I sprayed it with water and moistened soil, then raked it to sped the loose soil around next day. I want to seed it and spre

Using Organics on St. Augustine Grass

QuestionI purchased a home in Central Florida but live in the Maryland area. I do have someone maintaining my lawn, but since I visit once a month, what can I do to keep it looking good while I am away? I recently r

Watering in Atlanta Winter

QuestionIts late February and air temperatures are still flirting with freezing. Is it harmfull to my zoysia to get water b/t 10pm-12am? Will the grass freeze and die? Thanks. AnswerThe grass wont

malaysian Grass care

Question rooftop garden Hello there... I live at the moment in Bangkok Thailand and I live in a duplex with a rooftop.. i installed a rooftop garden a couple of days ago. I made a layer of plastic insulation at

poisoning

Questionwhen zoysia is dormant and yellow in the winter, can I poison other unwanted vegetation that is cropping up in the zoysia without hurting the zoysia? I would be using round up. I was hoping that

weed killers

QuestionI live in west tn and want to know if it is the right time to spray my lawn for weeds such as henbit and other weeds and also onions? what do i need to use to spray it with. it is a small lawn AnswerO

Tilling

QuestionI live in west Texas. We bought a house and the front yard is really dry and have alot of weeds. We are wanting to till up the yard and put new grass down. When is the best time to do this?

New lawn vs. of above-ground pool.

QuestionWe recently removed an above-ground pool from our backyard. The previous owners mixed something (lye?) with sand to for the foundation for the pool. The compound broke up in lumps, similarly to w

Bentgrass

QuestionMy husband and I have some bentgrass in a couple of places in our yard--came from a golfcourse. It does well. Question is, can we use Scotts Halts pre emergent on it? Thanks! AnswerHi Mona

compacted soil

QuestionHello - my lawn is about 12 years old and the soil is rock hard. When the house was built I believe they used all landfill and no soil - we have found large pieces of cement a couple of inches down. Nothing

What kind of seed or grass should I try?

Question12 years ago my lawn was a nice Bermuda grass. I planted trees and now the grass is practically gone. Its hot in the summer and clay type soil although I have a sprinkler system, the trees are taking all t

BROWN PATCH FUNGUS

QuestionI live in Jacksonville FL on a lake; I have a huge front lawn. Last fall I developed what was diagnosed by my lawn company as brown patch fungus; they treated it; it didnt improve; in fact it spread;

pre-emergence

QuestionQUESTION: Will Halts, or dimension hurt established trees and shrubs if applied around them? ANSWER: As long as you are applying at the correct rates, it should be fine. Ive seen it done numerous times befo

putting in a lawn

QuestionI bought a home with 10 horses on it 3 years ago. We didnt even have a weed. We drug the property and put pre emergent on it in the spring for sandspurs and planted grass seeds with hay on them. Water as req

Bumpy lawn?

QuestionMy wife and I bought a new house in Nov of last year. The lawn it beautiful, but once we moved in we noticed that its very bumpy. By bumpy I mean its like sod that was used, if it was used, had gaps in it. I