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May Lawn Care Schedule, Maintenance Tips & Fertilizer Recommendations

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Spring is here and in full effect! By now your lawns should be green, thickening up, and taking off – especially with all of the rain we’ve had in April. This how-to lawn care calendar is a month-to-month guide for cool season grasses – particularly Massachusetts and Zone 6 that have grasses like Turf Type Tall Fescue and Perennial Ryegrass. Following LawnPhix’s monthly lawn care guide will help you kickstart your turf health, vigor, and color this spring, and set your lawn up for success this growing season.

Your Guide To The Best Cool Season Grass Varieties

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There are five important cool-season grass families. Tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, fine fescue and creeping bentgrass (used almost exclusively on golf course putting greens). Jonathan Green Black Beauty® Ultra contains three out of the five families. These grass varieties, bred by Jonathan Green turf grass plant breeders, are some of the best on … Read more Your Guide To The Best Cool Season Grass Varieties

Jonathan Green Black Beauty Heavy Traffic Grass Seed Review

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Several years ago I underwent a full renovation in my backyard which originally spanned approximately 6,000 ft² Many trees (large and small) were taken down, as well as some wooded areas and plenty of weeds. Fast forward to 2017 and we expanded the backyard yet again to the tune of 10,000 total square feet. Jonathan … Read more Jonathan Green Black Beauty Heavy Traffic Grass Seed Review

How To Prevent & Treat Brown Patch in Lawns

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You survived another long winter. You jumped into your early spring lawn care plan and began the much anticipated hard work of clean-up, applied your first application of crabgrass control and prevention, fertilizer, and are starting to see the lawn quickly green-up and grow like crazy.  But soon both the outside temperature and humidity levels … Read more How To Prevent & Treat Brown Patch in Lawns

When To Treat For Grubs in Your Lawn

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Grubs, white grubs, grub worms. No matter what you call them, these pests, when left untreated, can wreak havoc in a lawn in absolutely no time.  Before jumping into prevention, controlling, and killing grubs in your lawn, it’s important to know about the Japanese beetle and its life cycle.  Grubs are the larval stage of … Read more When To Treat For Grubs in Your Lawn

How To Prevent & Control Crabgrass

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Amongst the DIY lawn care community, Crabgrass is the most notorious and difficult to manage “weeds” out there. This common grassy weed is invasive and undesirable. And without the proper prevention in controlling crabgrass, it can quickly kill the good ornamental grasses in your lawn (KBG, Tall Fescue, etc.) and takeover in a matter of … Read more How To Prevent & Control Crabgrass

My4Sons M4 Battery Powered Backpack Sprayer Review (2020)

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After expanding my old yard an extra 8,000 ft.2– totaling ~17,000 ft.2 I had to ditch the manual backpack sprayer and upgrade to a more suitable battery powered sprayer. I knew I also wanted to make the transition from a granular schedule, to one that included more liquids. For many reasons – particularly cost – … Read more My4Sons M4 Battery Powered Backpack Sprayer Review (2020)