Learn how to maintain a lush, healthy lawn with expert tips on mowing, watering, fertilizing, weed control, and seasonal lawn care.
Turfgrasses split into two camps, and the dividing line is temperature. Cool-season plants do their real growing when the air sits between 60 and 75°F. Warm-season plants want 80 to 95°F before they move. Those two windows barely…
One millimetre of rain on one square metre of roof yields one litre. That is the whole calculation. Everything after it is…
I walked a lawn last August with a sprinkler running on it every morning at six. The owner could not work out why it looked worse than the neighbour’s. The top two centimetres were soggy. Bone dry below that. Six weeks of daily watering…
I have mowed the same half-acre for nineteen years. For the first six of them I bagged every clipping and dragged the bags to the kerbside. Then a turf agronomist watched me tip a full catcher onto a compost heap and asked a question I…
Mowing is the job you do most often, and it is the one most people get wrong. I have walked hundreds of lawns in thirty years, and the same three faults turn up every season. The deck sits too low. The mower comes out once a fortnight when…
Most lawn advice arrives as a checklist. Mow, water, feed, aerate. Work through that list and you will spend a fortune while the grass stays thin. The jobs are not equal, and four of them decide what a lawn looks like. Mowing height comes…
Half the patchy lawns I am asked to look at in a season are not diseased. A dog on a hot afternoon did it, or a maple quietly grew four feet while nobody was watching. The owner has usually bought a fungicide already. I can tell from the…
Most lawn care quotes arrive as one number. Nobody explains how it was built. I have quoted gardens myself, and I have kept a spreader and a soil probe in the back of a truck for twenty years. I still blink at what a season of professional…
Fine fescue first. Tall fescue second. Kentucky bluegrass only if you enjoy wasting money. That is the short answer to grass in shade. What follows is the long one. Purdue’s turf specialists rate the five fine fescue types as the best…
Most lawn fertiliser is bought in the first warm week of April. The grass looks flat and pale after winter, the bags are stacked by the garden centre door, and a feed seems like the obvious cure. It is usually the wrong product. Often it…
