Lawns

Learn how to care for your lawn in fall including information on fertilizing, reseeding and topdressing with compost. For more garden videos, check out the National Gardening Association Listen to Podcast:   Podcast Transcript It covers more land than the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Rhode Island combined. People spend more than 40 billion dollars a year maintaining it, and that maintenance results in air, water and noise pollution. Who's the culprit--- your lawn. But your lawn doesn't have to be such a money sucker and...

Learn what to do when this spring to care for your lawn. Listen to podcast: Ahh spring, the flowers are blooming, asparagus is growing, and, oh yes, the lawn needs mowing. While we all strive for a green, beautiful lawn with few weeds, home owners have varying degrees of lawn tolerance. Just take a look around your neighborhood. Some lawns are worthy of a golf course, while others, well, at least they're green. So, let's look at what you should be doing to your lawn this spring to keep it healthy and beautiful. One of the first spring...

Listen to this podcast on how to care for your lawn organically during wet weather. It continues to be a cool, rainy spring. While our shrubs and trees are taking their time leafing out, nothing stops the lawn. It's been growing a mile a minute and mowing is difficult with the soggy soils. So, it's a good time to talk organic lawn care. First of all, if your lawn is so wet there are puddles or the characteristic squishing sound as you walk, avoid mowing. If the grass is becoming a jungle, then mow with the lightest weight mower possible so...