Quackgrass is a cool-season perennial that spreads through underground rhizomes and forms coarse, blue-green patches in bluegrass, fescue, and ryegrass lawns. It grows fastest…
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…
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…
Red thread shows up as pink or reddish patches in the lawn, usually after a run of cool, wet weather. Up close, the grass…
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…
Foxtail is a grass growing in a lawn, so most broadleaf weed killers that handle low-growing winter weeds like chickweed will not get rid…
Walk into any pool store, and you’ll find chlorine tablets on one shelf and bags labeled “shock” on another, priced differently, described differently, and…
Bermuda grass spreads in two ways. Runners creep across the surface and root as they go, much like foxtail seed heads spreading through a…
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