Prepare Your Grass For A Lawn Party Whether you’re hosting a BBQ, a graduation party or even wedding event, you want your lawn to look its best. We lawn care nuts spend a lot of time in our lawns to make them as green, lush, and healthy as possible. And now it’s time to show … Read more How To Get Your Lawn Ready For Guests – 5 Simple Steps
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
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
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
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 Plant Grass Seed in Springtime This post was originally published on Reddit. Some of the contents have since been edited 2020-03-12. There’s a lot of confusion and debate around spring seeding for cool season lawns. Some say it’s impossible and beg not to wait until the late summer and early fall – while … Read more Spring Seeding Guide for Cool Season Turf
There comes a point in every lawn care addict’s life when spring can’t come soon enough. After “springing ahead” an extra hour, the days are longer and the extra sunshine gives us all the extra itch to get outside and work on our lawns. I’ve created a simple step-by-step plan of things to go in … Read more Early Spring Lawn Care Steps
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
The awesome guys and gals at Kelp4Less have a brand new product – and this time it’s specifically formulated for us lawn care addicts. Just in time for the 2020 lawn care season, Green Lawn & Turf is now for sale on the Kelp4Less website. After using a slew of their products in all of … Read more NEW Kelp4Less Product for 2020 – Green Lawn & Turf
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)