Green Bag It: How to Compost your Grass Clippings Composting your grass clippings is not a difficult process, though it may require a bit more work than you might think and these clippings can sometimes cause problems in your compost pile if not properly composted. Taking a few simple precautions will prevent your grass from [...]

Green with Envy – What’s the Best Lawn Grass for You Lawn care is not only hard work, but it can also be very confusing. If you live in a suburban neighborhood, you know how much peer pressure there is to have the perfect lawn, but that there is a lot to keep track of [...]

How Low Can You Go? Why Cutting your Lawn Short is Hazardous for its Health Cutting your lawn, and understanding the science behind when and how to cut your grass is one of the important parts to maintenance for your lawn. Cutting at the right time and knowing the right length to cut can help [...]

How to Make the Grass Greener on YOUR Side of the Fence As the summer season approaches, many will be considering the care of their lawn. In deciding the maintenance for your lawn, you can also decide to allow your grass to become greener and healthier than what it has been in the past. The [...]

Kentucky Blue Grass – It’s not Just a Type of Music Kentucky bluegrass, as a species of grass, is native to most of Europe, the northern parts of Asia, as well s the mountainous regions of Morocco and Algeria. The grass, though common now in the cool humid parts of the United States, is not [...]

Lawn Cutting is an Art Form—How to Cut your Lawn Properly I bet you don’t think of mowing your yard as an art form. A chore has to be done if you have any lawn at all. It takes about 30 minutes to mow your patch of lawn, and most likely you don’t consider it [...]

Lawn Lingo—Ten Basic Facts You Should Know Maybe you’re a first time homeowner and you don’t know a thing about taking care of a lawn. You look at the neighbors lawns and they are beautifully manicured and a beautiful shade of green with nary a brown spot to be found. You think to yourself, “Can [...]

Laying Down the Lawn – How to Turn that Dirt Patchinto a Perfectly Green Lawn There are several different ways to have a lawn in your yard. One way is through the use of laying down sod, which is pre-grown grass. While this is easier and faster, it is not the only way to turn [...]

Lime for your Lawn—How to Know When you Need It Why do lawns need lime and how do you know when you need it? I’ll try to answer some of these questions for you. The first fact you should know is why lime is used on lawns. Soil ph is a measure of the soils [...]