When it comes to starting a lawn, there are two ways you can begin: You can prep the ground and sow the seeds, or you can start with a blanket of already grown grass, known as sod, and maintain it so ...

Smoothing seams Your biggest challenges in planting sod will be to snug up the corners and to push seams together so the surface will be even. Be careful, as you walk on the newly planted grass, that ...

I am tired of fighting the weeds and weedy grasses in my lawn. I am ready to start over. Is this a good time to replace or renovate a lawn? Now is the very best time to plant lawns. The soil is still ...

To seed or sod? That is the question — whether it is wiser to scatter bare ground with the promise of new growth, or to cover it in a toupee of established turf. Jeremy Hreben is the superintendent at ...

You`re ready to move into your new home, and the home is ready for you. What may not be ready is the back yard. The muck that you slogged through during construction trips to your homesite now needs ...

QUESTION: The landscaping company I hired to address my erosion issue is scheduled to come back and put down sod in late October. I know nothing about sod and don’t necessarily trust that they will do ...

The perfect green-carpet lawn – once revered as the hallmark of a responsible homeowner – seems to have taken an about-face. In some circles at least, a big, weed-free lawn is vilified these days as a ...