Lawn Care

Looking for expert lawn care tips and guidance for your home? Whether it’s starting a new lawn from scratch and weed control to turf nutrition and soil amendments, or a quick on “how to” in your yard. In this section, you’ll find plenty of lawn care information.

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Lawn Care

Early Spring Lawn Care Tips (2024)

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 ...
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Lawn Care, Crabgrass

How To Get Rid of Crabgrass in 2024

LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS Crabgrass is one weed where application timing is paramount. This annual grassy weed germinates in the spring when temperatures reach 55 degrees for three consecutive days and thrives in the hot ...
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How To Prepare Your Lawn For Winter (6 Simple Steps)

Another growing season has come and gone. For us cool-season lawn care enthusiasts, the past seven months have flown by, and it’s time to put our lawns away for a long winter’s nap. So as ...
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Lawn Care

How To Kill Poa Annua (Annual Bluegrass/Poa Annua Control)

LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS The best way I have gotten rid of Poa Annua was by applying a pre-emergent at the end of summer. I’ve also had luck spraying Poa twice with Tenacity (Mesotrione), but ...
2024 Lawn Phix lawn care calendar

Lawn Care, Products

FREE Lawn Care Guide for 2024

The updated 2024 calendar is now available for free! Click the button now to get your copy today! Lawn Phix was the July 2019 winner of the Jonathan Green, Show Us Your Lawn  contest. Since then, ...
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Lawn Care

July Lawn Care Guide & Schedule (2024)

Can you believe it's July the year is half over now? That includes our seven month lawn care season too. The outside temps are heating up and by now, hopefully you've complete our June lawn care schedule.  If so, your lawns should be a deep dark green and growing like crazy. There are three main topics to cover for our July lawn care schedule.

Lawn Care

How To Overseed A Lawn (A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Overseeding)

Introducing new grass to your lawn every year will keep your turf looking thick, green and healthy. Whether some grasses die off during the stressful summer months. Bare spots can occur from insect damage. Lawn ...

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THE 5 BEST Summer Lawn Care Tips for 2023 (Lawn Care in the Summertime)

As lawns come out of winter dormancy in spring, we have plenty of work to ensure we achieve a lush, healthy green lawn that brims with curb appeal and makes the neighbors downright envious. Lots ...
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Lawn Care

June Lawn Care Guide & Schedule (2024)

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.
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Lawn Care

How to Kill & Control Weeds in Your Lawn

So your lawn is full of weeds and looking for a DIY how-to kill and control weeds in your yard? Violet, dandelion, clover, creeping charlie, and crabgrass – the list of nasty cool season broadleaf weeds (dandelion) and grassy weeds (crabgrass) here in Zone 6 is a mile long, and they're all rearing their ugly heads now in the spring. April showers bring May flowers... and weeds galore!Follow these steps to help kill, control, and prevent weeds in your lawn.
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Lawn Care

May Lawn Care Schedule (2024)

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.
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Lawn Care

Lawn Phix: Month-by-Month Lawn Care Calendar and Schedule

Looking for an easy-to-follow, month-to-month lawn care guide? Lawn Phix created this specialized lawn care calendar and schedule for cool season grasses – particularly in the Massachusetts/Zone 6a areas. Quickly check your lawn care tasks for each month of the season in this monthly guide to a healthy, thick green turf.