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Lawn care tips & guides

Practical advice from our lawn care experts: watering, aeration, weed control, seasonal prep and more to help your lawn thrive all year.

Lawn Tips

How Long to Water Your Lawn
Lawn Tips

How Long to Water Your Lawn

Watering your lawn is an integral part of any lawn care program. Knowing how long to water your lawn and using proper watering methods assures healthy, stress-free plants and grass that can

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How to Aerate Your Lawn
Lawn Tips

How to Aerate Your Lawn

Whether you are a novice gardener, a seasonal worker, or a homeowner who wants to know more about lawn care, you’ve probably heard about aeration and how it can help you get healthier and gr

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How to Deal With Clover on Your Lawn
Lawn Tips

How to Deal With Clover on Your Lawn

The sudden appearance of clover in the lawn tells us about the soil’s health. When clover is present in your grass, it indicates that the soil is low in nitrogen levels. Clovers flourish in

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How to Get Rid of Moles in Your Lawn
Lawn Tips

How to Get Rid of Moles in Your Lawn

Are you wondering who might be the one digging holes in the soil on your lawn? You might not believe who built that mound of soil in your lawn, but most likely, your yard is providing a home

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How to Overseed a Lawn
Lawn Tips

How to Overseed a Lawn

One of the most overlooked practices for a lush, beautiful lawn is overseeding. If your yard is healthy and full, you may not need to overseed your lawn.

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Lawn Watering Tips
Lawn Tips

Lawn Watering Tips

There is always a house or two in the neighborhood with impeccable lawns everybody envies. A healthy, beautiful green lawn is a statement piece of a house and creates a welcoming atmosphere,

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When to Fertilize Your Lawn
Lawn Tips

When to Fertilize Your Lawn

Maintaining a lush and beautiful lawn takes a lot of time and effort. Besides regular watering, you also need to nourish your grass with the right nutrients. Fertilizer is one of the main in

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Weed Control

What is crabgrass and how to deal with it?
Weed Control

What is crabgrass and how to deal with it?

Keeping your lawn in perfect shape is a difficult task that requires a lot of effort and precision. Seeing all that hard work disappear in a matter of weeks due to weed infestation is a conf

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How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Lawn
Weed Control

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Lawn

While children may adore yellow dandelion flowers and their fluffy seed puffs, homeowners and gardeners aren’t the biggest fans. The presence of dandelions is not a good thing because those

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How to Get Rid of Weeds
Weed Control

How to Get Rid of Weeds

The question of how to get rid of a lawn full of weeds has no shortage of right answers. After all, no one wants to come home to a garden or lawn choked to the brim with weeds that leave no

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Insect Control

How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles
Insect Control

How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

Beetle infestation is a common problem that plagues many ecosystems in the United States. Known variants have afflicted yards and gardens as well as forest areas in just about every way imag

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