How to Get Rid of Spurge in a Lawn
Spurge is the flat green mat that appears along the driveway edge in July, spreading out from a single point as if something spilled. Snap a stem, and it bleeds white. That milky latex is…
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How to Get Rid of Onion Grass (Wild Garlic) in a Lawn
You usually smell it before you see it. Somewhere around the second mow of spring, the whole yard comes up smelling like a cutting board, and when you go looking, you find those slick dark-green…
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How to Get Rid of Wild Violets in Your Lawn
Wild violets are the weed that makes people question whether they know how to take care of a lawn. Everything else on the property responds to normal effort. Crabgrass gets pre-emergent. Dandelions yellow and curl…
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How to Get Rid of Prickly Weeds in a Lawn
The complaint always arrives the same way. Somebody walks across the yard barefoot in April, or a dog comes up the steps holding one back paw off the ground, and suddenly a lawn that looked…
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How to Get Rid of Hairy Bittercress in a Lawn
Most people meet hairy bittercress in March, when the lawn is still half dormant, and something green has already thrown up a mat of little white flowers along the driveway edge and through the thin…
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How to Get Rid of Nutsedge (Nutgrass) in a Lawn
You mow on Saturday. By Tuesday, there are pale green spikes standing an inch and a half above everything else, in the same two spots they were last July. That’s nutsedge. It grows roughly twice…
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How to Get Rid of Bindis in a Lawn
A selective, grass-safe herbicide matched to your specific turf type, applied in late winter to early spring before bindi flowers and sets its sharp seed heads, is the standard fix — a non-selective product like…
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Can You Spray Weed Killer on Wet Grass?
How long to wait before spraying weed killer after rain is a timing question almost every homeowner runs into eventually: the weeds are visible, the forecast isn’t cooperating, and spraying now versus waiting a day…
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How to Get Rid of Tree Saplings in a Lawn
The first mistake almost everyone makes with tree saplings is treating them like a mowing problem. You see little trees coming up in the grass, you run the mower over them, they disappear, and three…
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How to Get Rid of Moss in a Lawn (and Why It’s Really There)
Moss doesn’t invade lawns. That’s the first thing to get straight, because almost everything people do wrong about moss starts with treating it like an invader. Grass loses ground, and moss moves into the vacancy….
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How to Keep Geese Off Your Lawn
Geese don’t wander onto a lawn by accident. They case it first, usually from the air, sometimes for days before they ever land, and by the time you notice the first dropping on the grass,…
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How to Get Rid of Mushrooms in a Lawn (And Should You?)
You walk out one morning, and there’s a cluster of mushrooms near the back fence. Or a ring of them cutting across the middle of the yard. Or one large, thick-stemmed specimen sitting in the…
