Category: Lawn Care Tips

The best types of sod for your lawn are Bermudagrass, centipedegrass, St. Augustinegrass, Zoysiagrass, fescue, ryegrass, and Kentucky bluegrass. When choosing, it’s important to consider your climate, region, sunlight, foot traffic, maintenance, and budget.

From turning the pile regularly, maintaining proper moisture, and avoiding certain materials, this guide will teach you my favorite tricks to keep pests out of your compost pile.

To effectively use compost in your lawn and garden, use it as a topdressing, soil amendment, compost tea, or mulch to improve your soil’s health and boost plant growth. This guide will help you understand how to use compost effectively, how much you need, and the best times to apply it so your soil and plants thrive.

Fruit peels, corncobs, and grass clippings compost well, while meat, oil, and plastic attract pests, slow down decomposition, and create bad odors.

To mulch around trees, start by clearing weeds, grass, and other vegetation around the base of the tree, then spread mulch in a three-foot circle about 3 to 4 inches thick. Finish by lightly watering the mulch to help it settle against the soil.

Apply pre-emergents from February to April, when your soil reaches 55 degrees, and from August to October, when it drops to 70.

Pre-emergents are liquids or granules that prevent annual and unestablished perennial weeds from emerging in your lawn in the spring and fall.

Straw protects grass seeds against the elements, holds moisture, and regulates soil temperature. Find out why you should use it, how to apply it, when to avoid it, how to remove it, and its alternatives.

To repair salt damage on your lawn, water the lawn deeply, rake the damaged or dead grass, and apply gypsum, to name a few.