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Lawn Care Tips
Helpful do-it-yourself lawn care tips from lawn professionals, landscapers and home owners who enjoy their lawns and gardens...and care about the environment. Mowing, watering, fertilizing, weed control and more.
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Recent and Popular Tips
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Planting Grass: For Best Results Select Quality Grass Seed
Whether planting a new lawn or overseeding an existing yard, it is very important to carefully choose the grass seed you will use. There are large differences …
Edgeless Turfgrass Growth Regulator for Professionals - Save Time and Increase Profits
Edgeless is a turfgrass plant growth regulator (PGR). The purpose of this product is to decrease the amount of string trimming or edging of lawns.
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Weed and Grass Killers: Roundup vs Generic Glyphosate
Glyphosate is a non-selective chemical herbicide that is a very useful weed control around homes and in landscape beds.
Non-selective means it will …
Organic Lawn Care Tips, Growing Natural Lawns
Organic Weed Control Tips- 10 organic lawn care tips revolving around sound maintenance practices. We call it "preventive health care for lawns". It's the simplest way to grow a lush green natural lawn without chemicals.
- Grasscyling - How to spend more time relaxing on the weekends and less time mowing and fertilizing your lawn.
- How to Compost Grass Clippings
- The best organic weed control method will always be a vigorous, well-managed lawn.
Lawn Maintenance Tips
Lawn Care Tips - Mowing Stripes- Mowing lawn stripes: Have you ever wondered how the pros make the patterns on baseball fields or golf courses? Stripes are made by laying down the grass leaf blades in the direction you are mowing. Lawn striping kits can be made from boat trailer rollers, pvc pipe filled with sand, rubber flaps or chains - anything that can be mounted to the rear of a lawn mower cutting deck. Click here to learn how to stripe your lawn like a pro.
- Mow like a pro! Keep your lawn mower blades sharp. Sharp blades cut cleanly and give your lawn a manicured look. An easy maintenance task - How to keep your lawn mower blades sharp.
- Work safe and smart! Lawn Mower Safety is all about common sense and paying attention to what your are doing. Identify the hazards and then take steps to protect yourself from harm.
- It's important to have your lawn fertilizer spreader adjusted to apply products at the recommended rate. Here's how to do it in a few simple steps: How to Calibrate Your Drop Spreader.
Insects, Pests and Problems
- How to deal with Common Lawn Problems
- Lawn Moss Control: targeting the site conditions that favor moss growth and altering them to encourage healthy grass growth.
- Moles: Damage, Control & Trapping
- White Grubs -- images and control
- Chinch Bug Control
Lawn Care Tips: Safe and Responsible Weed Control- Herbicides for Lawn Weed Control -- Types of weed killers commonly used in lawn care applications.
- How to Kill Dandelions and Keep Them Off Your Lawn using good cultural practices, traditional chemicals or natural organic weed control.
Landscaping Tips
- How to install drip irrigation in landscape beds using a simple kit that converts an automatic pop-up sprinkler system into a drip system.
- Creative Landscaping Ideas -
Do-it-yourself landscape design tips. Simple & fun ways to get your creative juices flowing and inspiration for your design.
Seasonal Tips
Spring Lawn Care - 10 Ten spring lawn care tips to prepare your lawn for the growing season.
- Fall Lawn Maintenance for cool-season grasses.
- Do It Yourself Irrigation: How to Winterize a Home Sprinkler System Preparing your system for the winter using the "blow out" method.
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