If your lawn has suddenly grown a pale, wispy haze of stalks that defy your mower and bounce back up an hour after cutting, you are looking at seed heads. From mid to late May, almost every lawn made of…
The single visual change that lifts a tidy lawn to a professional looking lawn is a clean edge. You can mow perfectly straight stripes, feed regularly, water deeply, and the garden will still look unfinished if the lawn edge crumbles…
There are two kinds of dog owners with lawns. The first kind has accepted that their grass is a write-off and stopped caring. The second kind keeps trying to figure out why the same patches keep turning yellow despite watering,…
Spring rain followed by a sudden warm spell is one of the most common situations every gardener has to deal with in May. The grass shoots up four or five centimetres in a few days, you look out of the…
If patches of your lawn have turned a sickly yellow this month and the grass lifts away like a loose rug when you tug it, you almost certainly have grubs feeding on the roots underneath. The two culprits in late…
If you are still mowing your lawn once a week in May, you are already falling behind the grass. In late spring the combination of warming soil, regular rainfall and longer daylight hours pushes most cool-season grasses into their fastest…
The first warm, dry weeks of May is usually when anthills appear. One Saturday the lawn is flat, the next morning there are half a dozen small mounds of fine soil between the daisies, and within ten days you have…
The lawn feed you apply in the last two weeks of May does more for your garden than any other application of the year. It is what carries the grass through the demanding period from June to mid August, when…
If your lawn has suddenly developed irregular patches of pinkish or pale-tan grass over the past week or two, with thin red threads or tendrils visible on the leaf blades when you look closely, you are almost certainly dealing with…
If your lawn has thin areas or bare patches left over from winter and early spring, the next two weeks are the most important seeding window you will have until autumn. From late May, soil temperatures in temperate climates are…
