Bermuda woes

QuestionDear Charlotte, We recently bought a house late last summer in Irving which had a beautiful dark green bermuda lawn. The previous owners and many of my neighbors have their lawns fertilized by commercial com

lavender spreading

QuestionHi, The former owners of our house had lavender in two flower gardens on the lawn. The lavender is spreading everywhere. Is there anything I can do to control this? By the way, I am not a fanatic about lawn

Brown Grass!!

QuestionQUESTION: Hi, I live in Northwest Arkansas. I had Bermudagrass sod laid down in my front yard in Dec. of 2006--it started out beautifully in the spring, but then, it started to get brown spots near the

Scrub, dirt, and smoe green stuff

QuestionQUESTION: Hello, I live in a small city northwest of Philadelphia, PA. My back yard is only about 30 wide by 40 deep. The yard has two ornamental cherry trees (the largest about 20 high) and a

black fungus on ground

QuestionI have over two acres of little black slimy balls all over my yard and now in my vegetable garden.I cannot grow vegetables as they are all stunned growth.It is now spreading in the whole neighborhood. We liv

Spreading Sugar on Lawn

QuestionWhat is the best way to evenly spread sugar to your lawn? The chemical spreaders you can purchase at the hardware store seems like they may distribute way too much sugar because of the fine granularity

nut grass?

QuestionIs dallies (SP) and nut grass one in the same? How do you apply the sugar to kill the weed? Thanks ever so much. AnswerHi Mary; No day lilies are plants you want, and are beautiful. Nutgrass is

New dwarf fescue sod gone bad

QuestionQUESTION: I live in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno. During the 1st week of June, I had about 1200 sq ft of dwarf fescue sod installed. The Co. that I hired did a sub-par installation leaving gaps,overlap

wild bermuda grass

QuestionI have St. augustine grass but started getting what I thought was crab grass. I took some to the nursery and was told it was wild bermuda grass. They were not able to help me. I have been u

dollar week control in St. Augustine Grass

QuestionI read your answer regarding the use of sugar to control dollar weed. I live in Houston and my question is will the sugar attract the fire ants and sugar ants? This would be a nightmare. Thanks.

yellow St. Augustine Grass

QuestionI live in Decatur, my yard is 13 yrs old. i have tried several fertilizers and watering schedules and have the same problem each year. Some areas of green grass and several non descript size and shapes

roundup

QuestionI live in Richardson, have a lawn that on one side is healthy St Augustine, and the other is full of crabgrass, johnson grass, and very thin sickly looking bermuda because of a large tree shading the area.

Growing grass on top of crushed graninte rock mixed with dirt??

QuestionSo, the previous owner to our house did a really (REALLY) lousy job at the landscape. His anwer to it all was lay down crushed granite rocks (about an inch in diameter) everywhere around the border of the

Homemade Grass Killer

QuestionI am looking for a homemade recipe for something that will permenantly kill grass and any vegetaion. So, in other words, something easy and deadly (towards plants). Thanks, Kurt. AnswerPermanent, as in, Fo

Lawn and Crab Grass

QuestionQUESTION: I live in Connecticut. My lawn is more crab grass than grass. I wanted to attack the problem this fall. What sequence should I do things in - kill the crab grass, fertilize, seed,

pecan tree and my grass

QuestionI am the proud owner of a mature pecan tree which was planted by some previous owner probably several decades ago. This is the only pecan tree I know of in the area. It seems that suddenly the gr

Sugar

QuestionQUESTION: I think I directed my question to Tom when I was really trying to email you. I was wondering about the sugar treatment that some of the messages contain. I live in Northern Utan and it

Sandy Soil on a hill with leech field in lower yard

QuestionCharlotte, Hi I live in eastern NH and have sandy soil with maybe only 4 inches of top soil(black gold) to which I have been trying to grow grass on. I bought 7 yards of loam and now it doesnt seem l

New lawn with weeds

QuestionI just built a house and had Bermuda grass sod lad down about a month ago. I waited until it was about 4.5 to mow for the first time. I have all kinds of weeds growing in it now, thin grass like and broad le

Mushrooms in Lawn

QuestionHi: Im writing from Lynn, MA. Last year we had sections of our lawn regraded to make it as level as possible. The contractor used about 80 yards of screened loam and Blue Tag Triplex Seed Mix, starter