It's not hard to learn how to fix a dead lawn. The best defense is to keep your lawn healthy by fertilizing and topdressing with organic material once a year. Mow your lawn correctly and aerate it ...

When a lawn isn’t thick and uniform, the problem is often random bare spots or a thin, lackluster turf across the whole lawn. We can repair each with separate approaches. Random bare patches can be ...

Here’s how to choose between sod and seed to restore your lawn's lushness. Sod establishes faster than grass seed when filling in a bare spot in your lawn. Grass seed is easier to work with than sod, ...

In the Berkshires, snow settles early, lingers late and arrives not as a novelty, but as a fact of life. For homeowners ...

Why talk about lawns in late March? I mean the magnolias are flowering, the forsythia is in bloom and there’s a crowded lineup of others standing in the wings to add to the show. Seems lawns are the ...

Lawns have taken a beating from the long, hot dry spells of summer and many are now in urgent need of repair or renovation. "Most lawns are made of cool-season grasses that don't like excessive heat ...

Dull yellow spots, bare patches and slow growth are signs your lawn needs repair. I'm Lisa Hilgenberg form Chicago Botanic Garden with tips on turf repair. Mid-August through early September provides ...

Q: Our condo community has lost about a quarter of our grass in this summer’s heat and drought. We’ve got terrible clay and shale soil, only a small budget for lawn care, and watering is difficult.

A cheap household item has been hailed as an affordable lawn hack for patchy grass, buy an expert warns it could do more harm ...

Sod establishes faster than grass seed when filling in a bare spot in your lawn. Grass seed is easier to work with than sod, and is more cost-effective, especially when filling in larger patches.