Questions tagged [grass]
Grasses (graminoids) are plants with narrow leaves growing from the base.
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Tips on lawn maintenance and weed control
I have a lawn that is growing more and more weeds as the days go by. What is the best method of tackling this problem and returning my lawn to its former lush and green self?
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Making a yard that's settled more level?
My yard was installed when the prior owners built our house a dozen years ago. They did a decent job with the landscaping and yard. The problem is that some areas of the yard have settled and I'd like ...
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Can my lawn be saved or is it time to dig it up and re-sod?
The majority of the grass in my backyard has turned brown and/or died after what we believe was a chinch bug onslaught that went untreated for way too long. It is St. Augustine grass in South Florida....
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How can I control/remove unwanted grass in flower beds?
I have a flower bed with some ground cover, daffodils, tulips and a few shrubs. Lately grass has been growing pretty much everywhere, including through the ground cover.
I tried an herbicide called "...
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How often should I fertilize my lawn?
How often should I fertilize my lawn? Should I follow a certain schedule? I have heard of people fertilizing on around holidays [US: Easter (sometime in April), Memorial day (last week of May), fourth ...
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How can we grow grass in our heavy clay yard?
My wife and I have been living in a new subdivision for the past two years and have been struggling with getting grass to fully take in our backyard. Our front yard is sod and has been doing fine, but ...
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Why does my grass have bright green patches?
My yard is about 6 years old (new house). When we put the yard in, the seed was equal parts Fescue, Rye, and Kentucky Bluegrass. We live in NE Ohio.
About 2-3 years ago, we started getting these ...
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How can I strengthen a part of lawn that is sometimes driven over by cars?
Our front lawn runs right to the street, with no kerb. The edge of it sometimes gets driven/parked on and (for reasons I'll go into below) we can't simply prevent this. So it tends to get churned up ...
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Family pool on lawn all summer - what can I do to help the grass underneath recover?
Like many families with children we have a large (15 foot) inflatable paddling pool taking up part of the lawn for the entire summer period (roughly May to Oct).
When we pack away the pool, there's ...
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How do I quickly remove crabgrass without too much manual labour?
My backyard is being overtaken with crabgrass again. It started later this year than last. In the early spring, I rented a de-thatcher/powerrake and cleaned up the year of a lot of dead material (to ...
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How can I harvest my own grass seed?
I have a kind of perennial evergreen grass that I would like to spread around the yard. How can I save seeds from the plants efficiently ?
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How long do you water after planting grass?
I have just planted some grass seed to replace some grass lost after the dry summer. I have been watering it daily for 3-4 days. How long should I keep this up?
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What is this weedy grass and how can I control it?
I have a grassy weed with flowering seedheads at the top. What is it and how do I get rid of it in my yard?
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What kind of lawn grass doesn't spread and is exceptionally shade tolerant?
This grass is a very good lawn grass, showed mowed and unmowed, and I would like to buy seeds for it. Of course, I can't do that unless I know what it is. It does not spread, it doesn't turn brown ...
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How do I compost lots of grass clippings?
I find that grass clippings tend not to compost well on their own, however we have lots of grass clippings to compost – so what do we do?
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How to keep fescue grass from taking over my rye grass?
I live in Connecticut, hardiness zone 6a. Last Summer, fescue grass took over a large swath of the sunniest part of my rye grass lawn when it was very dry. Most of it died over the Winter and we ...
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How can I temporarily grow grass on concrete?
I just bought a house that has a backyard, but much of it is taken up by a concrete pad that connects the driveway to the garage. I was thinking about having the pad removed because I want to put ...
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Dandelions taking over the lawn
My lawn was overrun with dandelions so I've used some Ortho Weed-B-Gon Max and that seems to be killing the dandelions very well. The problem is now my lawn is very sparse with grass. There just wasn'...
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How do I keep "cat grass" alive?
Sometimes I buy a little carton of grass at the pet store for my (indoor) cat to nibble on. She likes it but it always seems to die off within a week or two. I'd really love to have a sustainable ...
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What kind of grass is this, and how can I keep it out of my garden
I have a thick, beautiful lawn that borders my garden. Unfortunately, I am struggling to keep the grass from infesting my garden. I have used a variety of herbicides, mostly RoundUp, along the garden ...
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How can I remove the moss growing on my lawn?
I have a lot of fairly thick, short moss growing on my lawn. The grass seems to be growing through it and looks healthy, but I still have a carpet of moss. I try raking it, but it's relentless and ...
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What's the best way to remove grass/topsoil to prepare for grading?
I want to remove about 250 square feet of grass/topsoil and then lightly grade for drainage below a future deck.
Should I:
Man up with a spade & a rake?
Rent a sod cutter & go deep?
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What type of miniature clover is growing with yellow flowers in my short Australian lawn?
I have a weed in my lawn which is prolific where the grass is of low height. It is a very small clover with yellow flowers.
I live in the Sydney, Australia region.
Here's a photo with a ruler to ...
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How to stop grass growing through landscape pebbles?
I have an area in my front yard where I have a row of dwarf Buxus surround by a strip of decorative pebbles.
I layed down a sheet of lining to prevent the grass from growing through the pebbles, but ...
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Dead grass in lawn after winter
Where I live, we have a severe rodent problem during the winter, such that when spring comes around, I have little vole/mouse trails in my lawn and patches of dead grass where the rodents had made ...
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Is early November too late in the season to overseed, repair a cool-season lawn?
I'm wondering if it would be too late in the season to overseed, repair a cool-season lawn in preparation for the coming Spring.
I live in Atlantic Canada.
I've been fighting with our lawn since we ...
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What is the right time to water my lawn?
I finally own my home and this is my first spring. I have a decent front lawn that I want to keep as green as possible. I've always been told not to water in the day as it can burn the grass (as a ...
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How should I fill and reseed shallow depressions in my lawn?
I want to level out a lawn that is roughly 4000 square feet. It has many low areas that vary in diameter and depth. Not sure what caused these holes; my guess is that they are from a previous owner ...
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What should I do after a tree removal and stump grinding to prepare for grass?
I recently had a large tree removed and the company also did the stump grinding. They covered the hole with the mulch from the stump. My question is what should I do next considering I am wanting to ...
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What is this grass that supports all weather types, doesn't invade and prevents bad plants from sprouting?
It apparently doesn't grow longer than on the photos, can support all types of weather, doesn't invade other parts of the garden and it seems to prevent "bad" plants from setting up there (bramble, ...
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Uses of the scythe in a modern garden
Recently on a Basque TV channel from Northern Spain I saw a competition between two women scything a meadow against the clock. They were going almost as fast as a modern ride on mower, but were ...
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Can reel mowers be used to cut wet grass?
So, I picked up a reel mower, and thinking about cutting wet grass with it. When I think about the reasons why I couldn't cut wet grass with a power mower, none of them seemed to apply (There is no ...
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What should I do to rescue grass from a petrol spill?
We had some less than stellar workmen do some work a few weeks ago, and one of them spilled a substantial amount of petrol onto our front lawn. There is now an area about 100cm in diameter where the ...
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What is the best type of grass for high-wear areas in England, and how to use?
We have started a nursery school in our garden in northern England, it has a large lawn but after the first winter there are bad bare patches on heavy-use areas. Clearly we need to be more actively ...
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Any suggestions on how to control clover and grass in a flowerbed?
I have an out of control clover infestation in my flower bed, but every time I dig out a batch of clover, it just springs back up within a month. The native grasses also seems to love the flowerbed.
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Lawn problem - seasonal grass, thatch, or something else?
I've owned my home for about 3 years now and every winter large patches of my lawn appears to die, but in the summer it comes back to life.... which makes me believe its some sort of seasonal grass. I'...
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Ground cover for large sloped area
I have a fairly large area, ~1000 square feet, that I would like to plant with ground cover that looks good, is low to the ground, and is zero maintenance. The area gets full sun the first half of the ...
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How can I fix a lawn which has become patchy?
My backyard lawn has always been slightly "patchy." My yard keeper attributes this to my two female dogs. I've been willing to believe him as the front yard grass has not had this problem and the ...
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What are the benefits of dethatching your lawn?
I have St. Augustine grass. What exactly is the process of dethatching? This question went into a brief discussion regarding dethatching.
Are there benefits to dethatching? When is the latest time ...
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What is pulling up tufts of grass all over my lawn?
I went to mow the yard today and found 1-2 inch plugs of grass pulled out of the ground all over the place. It looks more like the result of digging than a deliberate pulling out.
What could be doing ...
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How can I maintain a permanent shade lawn?
My Fescue Grass does fine here in my shady South Carolina yard. However, it needs to be re-seeded every year or it gets bare patches. Are there any alternatives that do not involve buying more seed ...
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Bermuda grass (I think?) is a muddy mess in the winter time
I live in Knoxville, TN. My back lawn sees a lot of action year-round with two medium-sized dogs. I think much of it is Bermuda grass, since it runs close to the ground, is very thick and soft in ...
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What's destroying my recently laid Kikuya lawn?
About a month ago I had roll on Kikuya lawn planted. Since then the area has had a lot of rain and irrigation and everything seemed to be going okay until recently when portions started thinning out. ...
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What should I do to improve a lawn growing on a new construction lot?
A builder built a new home for us last year (2013) and put sod in the front, and a seed blanket in the back. The seed blanket came up somewhat patchy, so we bought a few bags of seed and a spreader, ...
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Microclover Mix Lawns
What has been people's experience with microclover/grass mix lawns? In theory they sound incredible, but I'm afraid that the clover will be so hearty that it will take over the entire lawn.
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Do I need to/should I till up lawn before putting raised beds on top?
I have a lawn that I am considering turning into more garden space. (roughly 25' x 25')
I've done raised beds on top of an existing garden in the past, but never on top of lawn/grass without ripping ...
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How to reseed grass after killing weeds?
My lawn is overrun by clover and all sorts of weeds. I have lawn grass spots here and there, but the majority is weeds.
I was going to spray with "Ortho Weed-B-Gon Max", then spread some top soil ...
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Mice eating sown grass seed
I've been having trouble re-planting a bare patch of lawn at the back of my small garden. I was wondering if birds had been raiding the seeds (and I have bought some plastic netting ready for next ...
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What ingredients in milk make it a good fertilizer?
During the dead of winter when the temperature was hovering consistently around 32F I took 3/4 gallon of milk that had gone bad and pored it on the grass near the back porch. To my amazement the grass ...
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How do I control the broadleaf weeds taking over my centipedegrass lawn?
I have a lawn that was neglected for a long time - I've done a fair share of Weed-n-feed for a few months, but the weeds continue to prosper in the lawn. I know the soil is great (rich, moist, black ...
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