As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. A Bermuda lawn can look like it is failing in its first winter: the whole yard turns uniformly straw-brown after the first frost, and it is easy to assume something went wrong all fall. It is completely normal — Bermuda … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. Clover is easy to treat as just another weed to eliminate, but it was once a common component of lawn seed mixes, until broadleaf herbicides became widespread in the mid-1900s and started killing it along with everything else people considered … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. Pulling dandelions by the fistful for an entire Saturday leaves a lawn looking clean by evening, and two weeks later the exact same spots have flowers again, seemingly out of nowhere. What that approach doesn’t account for is that dandelions … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. St. Augustine is a warm-season, broad-bladed grass with genuinely different needs than cool-season turf, and most of the trouble people run into with it comes down to applying cool-season habits to a warm-season lawn. Mowing it short and fertilizing it … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. After a stretch of hot, humid weather in July, roughly circular brown patches can show up seemingly overnight, each one a couple of feet across with a thin, smoky-gray ring right at the edge in the early morning dew. The … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. A section of lawn that goes from green to spongy to completely peel-able, like a loose carpet, over about three weeks one September is a classic grub pattern. Rolling a section back by hand, no digging required, shows the cause … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. A bottle of ordinary broadleaf weed killer sprayed twice, over two weekends, on a patch of what looks like fast-growing grass barely slows it down, and the patch keeps outgrowing the rest of the lawn by inches within days of … Read more
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. See our affiliate disclosure for details. By late July, a lawn with crabgrass has pale, sprawling patches that look almost healthy from the street and then completely fall apart the moment cooler weather hits in fall, leaving bare dirt right where the patch had been. Pulling … Read more