If your lawn is cool-season grass, it will need proper care when the warmer months arrive. Here's how to make sure it thrives ...

Early spring means it's time to make applications of residual herbicides to control germinating summer annual weeds, ...

PULL WEEDS: Be sure to pull up and dispose of cool-season annual weeds such as annual bluegrass, henbit, bedstraw and chickweed growing in beds now. These weeds are setting thousands of seeds that ...

Grow green grass with just a few hours of care per week.

To avoid this common lawn care mistake, plant cool season grasses like Kentucky bluegrass and red fescue in northern states.

Coated seed is common for legume species such as alfalfa and clover. Coatings contain rhizobia bacteria and often a fungicide to inoculate roots and to help protect seedlings. A coating can also ...

It’s been awhile since I’ve written an article on basic lawn care. This article covers management of cool season turfgrass ...

The best time to seed each type of grass is at the start of their active growth phase, which differs for these two classes of turfgrass. Cool-season grasses include fescue, Kentucky bluegrass ...

Wait to sharpen mower blades until after the first two or three times you mow. Sticks and debris often greet mower blades during the first mowing sessions of the season. After a couple of mower passes ...

In Iowa, cool-season lawns can be fertilized in the spring during April or May and from mid-September to early November for fall. ISU Extension and Outreach recommended not fertilizing Kentucky ...

These clumps are annual ryegrass whose seeds found their way into your lawn. Annual ryegrass is a cool season grass. The seeds germinated in the late fall when the temperatures dropped.