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Spurge is the flat green mat that appears along the driveway edge in July, spreading out from a single point as if something spilled.…

A pool full of water is one of the heaviest objects on a residential property. Empty, it becomes one of the lightest things buried…

Over-fertilizing can leave grass yellow, brown, wilted, or completely dead, even when the soil has plenty of moisture. The damage can spread quickly, and…

You usually smell it before you see it. Somewhere around the second mow of spring, the whole yard comes up smelling like a cutting…

Wild violets are the weed that makes people question whether they know how to take care of a lawn. Everything else on the property…

The complaint always arrives the same way. Somebody walks across the yard barefoot in April, or a dog comes up the steps holding one…

Most people meet hairy bittercress in March, when the lawn is still half dormant, and something green has already thrown up a mat of…

The first year it happens, it’s charming. A mallard pair drops onto the water some morning in late March, paddles two lazy laps, and…

Bromine is better than chlorine at several specific things, and one of its weaknesses is severe enough to disqualify it outright for most residential…

Every irrigated lawn has a dry spot somewhere. Usually the same one in the same corner or the same strip along the drive, and…

Almost everybody diagnoses a brown spot by its color, and color is the least useful thing about it. Dead grass is dead grass. What…

Mustard algae is easy to mistake for dirt. Your pool stays clear, chlorine reads around 2 ppm, and a brownish-yellow film appears along the…
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