The best time to aerate is when your grass is actively growing—spring or fall in cool areas, and late spring in warm ones.

Fertilizer is an essential part of lawn care. It provides the nutrients your grass needs to thrive—it also crowds out weeds, improves disease and drought resistance, and provides a healthy root system ...

Fertilizing a lawn is a must, but are you doing it often enough and at the right point in the season? If you want luscious green grass then getting these things right is essential, but according to ...

Have you been struggling to get a nice, lush lawn your neighbors will notice? Never applied fertilizer to your lawn before? It isn’t as hard as you think, and April is the right time to make your ...

Close up of green lawn on a sunny day, with the blue sky, white clouds, and housing structures in the background. - Sachko/Getty Images Dreaming of having that rich, carpet-like lawn you see in home ...

Experts share when and how frequently you should bust out the fertilizer. Tending to your lawn is an American rite of passage ...

The best fall fertilizer for cool-season grasses is a high-nitrogen fertilizer with the correct amounts of phosphorus and potassium to address soil deficiencies.

Many gardeners and homeowners have completed their fall gardening and home landscape maintenance tasks for the season once the final leaves are removed from the lawn sometime in November, but they may ...

Amazingly, the flowers in my yard that can take the heat look fantastic. And when the grass isn’t wilting, it seems to be surviving pretty well too. We go through this every year: the hot, dry, ...

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If you haven't blown out your sprinkler system or harvested your tomatoes, you are in luck. Fort Collins' average first frost date has come and gone. But don't press your luck. Prepare now for the ...

Dreaming of having that rich, carpet-like lawn you see in home magazines? Using compost as fertilizer might be your best bet to achieve that, as it is one of the natural ways to keep your lawn green.