Why can't I have a weed lawn? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 46 answers

Did I totally mess up by meticulously preparing our yard with a tracter/box blade, spending days removing rocks and debres, planting 50 pounds of Fescue seed, thereafter covering it with 23 bails of straw, and watering it almost daily, but completely skipping the part about raking the seed into the soil? 7 days and counting. [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2008 - 13 answers

Lawn Rehab! [more inside]
posted on Apr 9, 2007 - 14 answers

After years of renting apartments, I have moved up in the world: I am now renting a house. Strangely, the house comes with small organic green things projecting from the ground. Having never been responsible for a lawn before, I don't really know what to do with it. I also have two, I don't know, shrubs (I think). One is low growing, thick, with branches that kind of double as rhizomes, and one might be a juniper. As you can see, I'm pretty clueless. What do I need to know/what must I do/what must I buy to take good care of my lawn and it's various planty inhabitants? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2007 - 17 answers

What do I do now in autumn, to get a jump start on growing grass in spring? [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2005 - 7 answers

Oh, my lawn, my beautiful lawn. . .could anyone help me with a problem lawn in Houston?
posted on Feb 3, 2004 - 6 answers