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.
Weeds That Look Like Grass: 11 to Know (With Photos)
Weeds that look like grass include crabgrass, nutsedge, quackgrass and poa. Use color, stem and season clues to identify 11 and pick the right control.
Broadleaf Weeds: How to Identify and Kill Them in Lawns
Broadleaf weeds have wide, net-veined leaves and showy flowers. Identify 13 common lawn broadleaf weeds and the herbicides and fall timing that kill them.
How to Use Milorganite: Rates, Timing & Spreader Settings
How to use Milorganite: bag rate per 1,000 sq ft, spreader settings, New England timing, seeding, and the Massachusetts phosphorus rule for biosolids.
Tall Fescue Grass Seed: Turf-Type Rates, Timing & Tips
Turf-type tall fescue grass seed roots deep and handles drought and wear but won't fill gaps. Rates, timing, brown patch tips and our GCI TTTF results.
Winterizer Fertilizer: Does Your Lawn Need It?
Winterizer fertilizer explained: what the high-potassium bags do, whether cool-season lawns need one, and when to apply it before the ground freezes.
What Does Crabgrass Look Like? Crabgrass Identification
What does crabgrass look like? Crabgrass identification by growth stage, large vs smooth crabgrass, look-alikes, and when it shows up in New England lawns.
Kentucky Bluegrass Seed: Rates, Timing & Best Blends
Kentucky bluegrass seed is slow to sprout but spreads to repair itself. Seeding rates, New England timing, tall fescue blends and the varieties to buy.
Creeping Lawn Weeds: How to Identify and Kill Them
Creeping lawn weeds like ground ivy, violet, clover and spurge root as they spread. Identify yours, pick the right herbicide and time it for fall.
Tall Fescue vs Kentucky Bluegrass: Which Grass to Choose
Tall fescue vs Kentucky bluegrass compared: drought, shade, wear, self-repair, how to tell them apart, safe mixing ratios and seeding rates for your lawn.
Grass Clippings: Leave Them or Bag Them? (Lawn Guide)
Lawn grass clippings: when to leave them, when to bag them, how much nitrogen they return, and why herbicide-treated clippings stay out of compost.
Drought Tolerant Grass: Best Picks for Northeast Lawns
Drought tolerant grass for Northeast lawns: tall fescue vs bluegrass vs fine fescue, how drought dormancy works, and what not to do on a brown lawn.
Slow Release Lawn Fertilizer: Types, Labels & Timing
Slow release lawn fertilizer explained: coated vs organic nitrogen, how to read WIN on the label, and UMass-backed rates and timing for cool-season lawns.