Homeowners seeking lawn upgrades beyond traditional grass can explore diverse, low-maintenance options. From clover carpets ...

Coastal Plain lawn care requires warm-season grasses. Some of these include: Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, carpet grass. Warm-season grasses take a while to green up.

"I love this transformation every year." Homeowner shares beautiful before-and-after photos of yard transformation: 'There's just no way that's the same garden' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Next to sunshine, the next most vital ingredient in getting and keeping a healthy lawn is water. Generally, most grass needs 1 to 1.5 inches of water per week.

Before you get started, visit your local lawn and garden store to find the right seed. You should choose seed that matches ...

Not only does hot weather stress lawns, but grass seed won’t germinate if it’s very hot, needing daytime temperatures between 60 degrees and 75 degrees. Newly laid sod also appreciates the ...

The first day of lawn work has arrived for The Lawn Tools! We are pretty far north for bermudagrass - in the transition zone - so we are the last people to get a nice green lawn every spring. But, the ...

According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, grass lawns consume nearly 3 trillion gallons of water a year, 200 million gallons of gas (for all that mowing), and 70 million pounds of pesticides.

If you lawn is looking a little sad, check the weather before applying fertilizer. Fertilizing the lawn in the wrong ...