Questions tagged [lawn]
Low durable plants of consistent height that are grown to fill an area aesthetically, to be walked on, or as a base for sports and recreation.
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How much ash can I use on a lawn?
On occasion I end up burning some oak branches in my firepit, which gives me some ash that I typically throw out. At times I have heard it may be beneficial to use it in the lawn, although I already ...
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How do I repair my lawn this late in the year?
It's mid-November and we just had our driveway expanded. Now the lawn in the region is absolutely thrashed. Re-reading my contract with the driveway crew, they were very clear that the landscaping ...
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What is the best way to sow grass seed in high rainfall areas?
I have tried sowing onto loose soil and covering with grass clippings, but the rain floats the seed and the clippings into piles and the pounding action of the water buries the seed in the mud.
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Is it common to only sod a portion of a lawn?
In relation to this question, I have leveled a big portion of my lawn and am looking into laying sod now as opposed to seed, mostly b/c I don't want to wait for the seed to fully grow.
However, it ...
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What is this growing in my lawn?
This moving from a rental to owning a home and having lawn care is certainly a learning experience... We're working to have a lawn of St. Augustine grass here in Southwest Florida. I've successfully ...
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Nutsedge nightmare. Is there an organic solution that will rid my lawn of ever spreading nutsedge?
I have been battling purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) and yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) as long as I've had a lawn. These weeds grow from tubers. The tuber networks are connected by a baby ...
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How Do I Determine The Best Watering Schedule For My Lawn?
I just bought a new house and I want to program the irrigation system. I don't know anything about the lawn or the system because I just moved in.
I want to know how often I should water the lawn, ...
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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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Forcing a clover takeover of my lawn
I have weeds in my grass lawn. Not an uncommon situation, I understand.
I have a few types of weeds. One type grows like — well, like weeds: quickly and tall. And unsightly. Then there's clover,...
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Advice with laying a lawn please
This is probably the sort of thing thats been asked a thousand times but I have no idea what I'm looking for
we moved into a house with a lovely huge pond, however now we have our first child and ...
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What to look for in a robotic lawnmower?
The idea of a robotic lawn mower is appealing, but it seems that most of the robotic lawn mowers currently on sale are overpromising their delivery somewhat. Amazon reviews are in many cases a mixed ...
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How can I control thistle in a lawn?
Our back fence (an iron bar fence) borders a golf course, and between us and the fairway is about 50 feet of "native" landscaping. This mostly means long, native grass (some type of crab grass?).
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How to reseed my lawn?
A friend of mine told me I should spread seed and then put a half inch of soil over it. I have about half an acre of lawn so this would be a LOT of soil. Is there any way to just spread seed and still ...
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Fish fertilizer for my lawn
I was told by someone that fish fertilizer is good for the lawn; just use 3 tablespoons in a gallon of water and apply it to the lawn. But how many gallons should I use for a lawn that's about .3 ...
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Is this normal for a push reel mower?
I have this mower. It worked great last year, but this year it's left my lawn looking like the photos in this album. Believe it or not, I mowed that grass yesterday (not even 24 hours ago).
It is ...
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What is an aggressive grass that will grow from seed in Maine?
My lawn is a hodgepodge of different grass types - notably Bermuda grass on my front lawn.
Is there a grass that you can seed that will push other grasses out?
For reference I live in Maine.
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How can I stop a dead tree's roots from popping up in the grass?
I dug up a tree a year ago and the roots seem to still be spreading under ground. Every once in a while I will see it sprout above ground. I keep pulling it out but it comes back. How do I kill ...
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What type of lawn damage is this, and what do I do about it?
I would like to give my front lawn a little TLC this year.
I don’t really know a lot about lawn care, (other than mowing it) so I am looking for some general advice. Does this look like a seeding ...
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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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How do I start a new lawn?
I had an infestation of grubs, as well as some severe compaction issues, resulting in a very patchy front lawn (1000 sq ft, Toronto).
Over the weekend I roto-tilled the lawn to a depth of 6 inches. ...
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Should mulch be mixed with something else?
I've noticed that when professional landscaping services put mulch in an area, it smells. However, mulch by itself doesn't smell. I'm wondering what do they mix mulch with and why?
I just moved into ...
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"Saving" an unattended yard?
My wife & I recently purchased a house who's owner was a bit frail & had let the backyard go for a while. It's a mix of some grass, empty patches & lots of clover.
We'd like it to be a ...
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What are the different ways you can level a yard? [duplicate]
Our new house has a backyard that's very pretty "bumpy" and not very level. What are our options for leveling it?
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What can I do this spring to help my new lawn?
I live in Maryland, and I expanded my back yard last fall by clearing some trees and leaves. I brought in top soil and tried to smooth out the contour also. After seeding, I had areas of success and ...
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Best Resources for a new DIY'er Getting Started? [closed]
My wife & I recently purchased a new house and while the backyard isn't a total mess, it needs some work. Both because the prior owner was elderly with limited abilities, but also because we want ...
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Can I replace my lawn mower's blade with any brand blade?
I have a Murray lawn mower (Model 20223X12A). The Tecumseh engine model number is TVS 90 4354K. I measured the blade diagonally and it is about 19.5 inches long. It is just a regular blade.
I wanted ...
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Fixing wheel tracks on lawn
Ok, I had 60yo oak taken down on my back yard. Not sure how to do it properly without damage but guys drove bucket truck and:
Got stuck - there is 1+ft holes in a ground below topsoil
While driving ...
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How do I fill in dead patches in my lawn?
When my sod was about a month old, we (accidentally) didn't water it for about it a month, causing it to go dormant. Over several months, most of the grass came back, but now it has several large bald ...
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Building a concrete divider for a lawn/garden bed
I have a garden bed in between my fence and my lawn, seperated by a row of two bricks in an "L" arrangement.
I'd like to replace the bricks with a concrete divider similar the picture in this post - ...
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Keeping lawn out of garden beds
I have buffalo grass for lawn and garden beds around the house. The grass wants to spread into my garden bed. I have a border of concrete curves that looks like this:
But the border is fairly ...
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Will cutting grass help it spread?
I've planted some kikuyu grass by seed in my Arizona back yard. It's growing well in clumps and I want to encourage its horizontal growth of stolons. Would trimming the parts that are growing up speed ...
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Zoysia temperature range
I'm interested in replacing my lawn with Zoysia (Empire or Empress). But I've heard it's intolerant of low temperature.
Using the USDA Hardiness scale, what is the minimum it would tolerate?
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Laying down Fescue sod in North Carolina in Late October. good idea?
I just scheduled a pallet of Fescue sod to delivered to my home for Wednesday. The salesman said that Fescue sod is only sod that will grow/root throughout the winter if laid down now. Is this correct?...
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Leveling a yard and laying sod
When I bought my house ~3 years ago, the backyard was being watered by hand even though it has a sprinkler system. The sprinklers had no supply line.
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Identify Common Lawn Varieties
I've run into this problem and I'm sure others will too:
I want to know what variety of lawn I've got.
Knowing your lawn type is important for: watering, PH levels, fertiliser, etc. And if you ...
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Watering a new tree in the middle of new sod
The landscapers planted a new tree (1 1/2 diameter) in the middle of the sod they also installed. They have the yard set to be watered 3x daily for half an hour at a time (the sprinkler heads are the ...
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Is painting grass green for the sake of making it green for real?
There's a joke that in the army when the grass has any color but green it is painted so that it has "the right" color.
Now I open Google and search for "painting grass" and there're numerous results ...
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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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Rake or leave lawn clippings?
Is it better (healthier) for the lawn if rake and dispose of lawn clippings or if you leave them on the lawn to decompose and return to the soil?
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Seeding patches in the lawn
I moved into a house a month ago, and am trying to recover the lawn. There are several patches (roughly a square foot each) with no grass at all, just tough soil. There are two large maple trees, so ...
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Fall seeding a lawn in Northern Ontario
I live in Northern Ontario, where evenings below freezing start in October, and snow begins as early as November. I'm looking to aerate and seed my lawn. I've read that Spring and Fall are the best ...
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How to keep a tree and the grass around it well watered?
I am having a problem with keep the grass around my trees green. Half a dozen trees died in the area last year, so I am trying to make sure that doesn't happen to more. I suspect I am not getting ...
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How do I kill these weeds in my lawn?
I am not able to kill these weeds in my garden.
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What is this low growing square-stemmed plant in my lawn?
I have a small, dense, spreading herbaceous perennial plant in my lawn. I don't have anything against it, but I would like to know what it is. It has slightly square stems and rounded leaves. It has ...
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How can I encourage moss to grow on my lawn?
I'm trying to replace some of the grass in my lawn (in the shadier parts of it) with moss. How should I go about doing that?
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How do I kill couch grass organically prior to sowing a lawn?
The area of yard I intend to sow as lawn is around 150sqm, and has just been levelled by machinery which removed much of the plant material. Most parts of it have just had a shallow layer scraped off ...
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How to replace the grass in a yard? [duplicate]
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Can my lawn be saved or is it time to dig it up and re-sod?
I have two problems that I am trying to knock out with the least amount of work possible.
The first problem is I ...
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How much topsoil can I put over grass before needing to re-seed?
My lawn is very uneven - it seems that between trees & settling fill there are places where there are dips of up to 8".
I'm going to get a load of topsoil, but I'm wondering how much dirt I can ...
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How can I establish Zoysia seed without tilling?
I have about 1000 sq feet full of weeds that I'd like replace with grass. I sprayed herbicide over it to kill everything before planting seed. I thought I would be able to get some equipment to the ...
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What Should I Look For In An Electric Lawnmower?
I searched through all the posts on lawnmowers and didn't find anything on electric mowers.
We have a very small front yard and only a slightly bigger backyard. Our elderly neighbor had mowed our lawn ...
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