best lawn grass for Nashville TN

QuestionNashville is in Zone 6b. What type of grass for a lawn do you recommend? It gets extremely hot here with long drought periods. Fescue, which seems to be mostly recommended, just cannot take the h

Help with Floratam lawn on Florida

QuestionQUESTION: Hi, I purchased my home 2 years ago and the builder used floratam sod. I had a pest lawn service the first year and the lawn never looked worse. They said I had grubs but they were never able to ge

kill weeds, grow new lawn

QuestionQUESTION: Hi, I live on the California coast, and Ive just rented a house. I have a large lawn area in the back and 2 small ones in the front. The problem is, there is NO grass left at all, just

grub in lawns

QuestionHello I have had a bumper crop of Japanese beetles this year. I would like to know when is the best time to treat for grub. I live in RI. thank you AnswerGrubs are an interesting problem. The soil is

WATERING GRASS

QuestionIS WATERING GRASS WITH DISHWATER OR BATHWATER CONTAINING LAVENDER OIL HARMFUL TO THE GRASS? AnswerDear Jeff: I can see no harmful effect from putting dishwater on a lawn. It probably contains stearat

weed overtaking lawn

QuestionI live on Long Island and my lawn was pretty good till about 3 weeks ago, it started out as small areas that appeared to be crabgrass.Within 1 weeks time a section of my front yard was totally taken over by

Zoysia weeds

QuestionI sodded my lawn with Meyer sod and while the grass is looking real good I have a problem with crabgrass and ornamental grass as well as clover. We did it on 7/1/07 and we are watering regularly due to dry h

Saint Augustine taking over my ZOYSIA

QuestionHello, the yard next to me has Saint Augustine and its moving in on my Zoysia. I pull the runners every now and then but its slowly taking over. Can I do something to my Zoysia that will let it take back the

lawn woes

QuestionHi Tom. I sampled 2 areas in my lawn, ran ph test on each. test 1 -6.2 ( mostly sunny area little shade), test no. 2- acidic off color chart (-5.0) shady area below 50 cedar, shady ar

summer fertilizing

Questioni have a irrigation system and my lawn is healthy and green even with these high temps. is there a fertilizer i can use or should i wait until the fall to hit it again ? AnswerThe way I see things, Greg, Co

tall fescue

QuestionI live in North Georgia (Zone 7). My tall-fescue (Kentacky) lawn has patches of barren areas. Most of the lawn looks OK. I wonder if I can choose something different to mix with the existing fescue--somethin

Amending A Lawn

QuestionIve enjoyed reading through your many answers to several situations similar to mine, but Im going to be selfish, if you dont mind) and ask for a customized answer to my yard. We moved into our

Tree Seedlings

QuestionI have had 2 Cotton Wood trees removed- they ground down the stumps. Now I had new grass put in the yard and now I seedling (saplings) are coming up all over the new yard. Help what to do? AnswerAnnie

Major grub infestation, aftermath

QuestionQUESTION: Before I get too far... I agree with you on the subject of not using chemical poisons on the lawn to kill grubs. We have a lot of wildlife we enjoy, and attract a lot of birds, but I am exasperated

lawn over seeding

QuestionI live in middle tn and need to over seed my 2 year old yard when and how is the best time to do this? I have a Kentuky 31 and blue grass mixture. Also Have a pesky friends dog that i think has killed a new

Weeds and Yellowing lawn

QuestionHi, I live in queens NY. My lawn has started off very green and lush this year and now it has all these big weeds growing through out it and now I am starting to see two areas that have turned yellow. I had

Unknown geass

QuestionI live in Western Pennsylvania. I have a rather large lawn in pretty decent shape. Several weeks ago I began to notice an infestation of a different grass in many spots throughout the lawn. The new stuff is

Brown circles in yard

QuestionI have brown, perfectly round circles in my yard and we have not had rain in weeks so it is not fungus. The grass does not pull out easily nor is it wet or slimy. It looks like mini crop circles about 1 foot

black powdery spots on grass

QuestionI have recently noticed black spots on our grass. when inspecting the spots, I rubbed a stick on the surface it is powdery and makes a smokey effect like messing with ashes from a fire. but the black still r

Hillside planting

QuestionWe have a steep hillside that we no longer want to weed wack every time we mow. It abuts our neighbors property, so we have to be careful with what we do. Id like to permanently kill the grass, t