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Bahiagrass throws up tall, V-shaped seed stalks three or four days after the lawn is mowed. It is a warm-season perennial that spreads by…
Edging cuts a clean vertical line where the lawn meets a sidewalk, driveway, or planting bed. Trimming handles the grass a mower can’t reach…
Ask a sod farm, a synthetic grass installer, and a university turf specialist for “turf,” and you will get three different answers. The sod…
Lime raises soil pH. It helps only when the soil is more acidic than the grass growing in it prefers. Yellowing grass, moss, and…
Horseweed starts as a flat rosette that is easy to miss in a lawn. By early summer, it can send up a single stalk…
A fiberglass pool lasts longer, but one correction is needed before the numbers make sense. A vinyl liner pool has a replaceable part built…
Red thread shows up as pink or reddish patches in the lawn, usually after a run of cool, wet weather. Up close, the grass…
A basic sprinkler timer waters on the same days at the same time, whether it rained all weekend or the yard has been baking…
Lawn fungus usually shows up after a stretch of warm, humid weather. Brown circles appear overnight, pale spots spread across the yard, or your…
During pollen season, a pool that was clean the night before can have a yellow film across the surface by morning. The film collects…
Green algae shows up after a heat wave, a week of storms, or a vacation when nobody checked the chlorine. A pool can go…
Chickweed takes advantage of thin, damp, or stressed areas of lawn, the same weak spots that let foxtail seed heads spread through a lawn…
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