Check gray or purple growth on grass, separate slime mold from rust and mildew, and remove it gently...
Check gray or purple growth on grass, separate slime mold from rust and mildew, and remove it gently...
Check the runners and seasonal color of a nimblewill patch, then decide whether to leave it, dig it...
A low mat beside a path may be prostrate knotweed. Check its papery leaf sheaths, rule out spurge an...
Common purslane has thick, fleshy leaves and smooth red stems. Use those clues to separate it from s...
Torpedograss spreads by underground rhizomes, so correct identification matters before you pull, til...
Learn how to identify Virginia buttonweed, check the lawn conditions that favor it, and choose a tur...
Onion grass can be wild garlic or wild onion, and the leaf shape changes how you identify it. Use a...
Learn how to identify goatheads, remove puncturevine safely, and choose a lawn treatment without spr...
Johnson grass is a perennial with a white-striped leaf and thick rhizomes. Tell it from crabgrass, d...
Name the sticker first: lawn burweed, sandbur, or goatheads. Then hit each one in its window, from a...
Tell doveweed, bermudagrass, torpedograss, and crabgrass apart from your St. Augustine, then kill th...
Purple flowers in the lawn usually mean one of five common weeds. Here is how to tell henbit, creepi...
Bull thistle grows from one taproot and digs out cleanly, while Canada thistle spreads underground a...
Broadleaf plantain is the flat, ribbed rosette that shows up wherever feet and tires pack the soil d...
Foxtail is a summer annual, so every plant in your lawn dies at frost and the whole fight is about s...
Ragweed is the plant behind most late-summer allergy misery, and it hides in plain sight along fence...
Mushrooms in the lawn are the fruiting bodies of fungi feeding on buried tree roots, construction de...
Doveweed is a late-summer annual that shrugs off most weed killers and loves wet, poorly drained tur...
Dollarweed (pennywort) is a sign your lawn is staying too wet. Here is how to identify those round c...
Five summer brown-spot causes look almost identical. Use three quick at-home tests to tell drought f...
Fix dog urine lawn spots the right way and stop new burns before they start. A turf diagnostician wa...
Dallisgrass is a perennial clumping grass that fools people into spraying it like crabgrass, then it...
Spotted spurge is a fast summer annual with milky sap and a deep taproot that sets thousands of seed...
Nutsedge is a sedge, not a grass or a broadleaf weed, so ordinary weed and feed walks right past it....
Wild violet resists ordinary weed killers thanks to a waxy leaf and spreading roots. Here is how to...
Poa annua is a fall-germinating weed, so the highest-leverage control is a fall pre-emergent timed b...
Moss is not a weed you fight, it is a message your lawn is sending. Here is how I get rid of moss fo...
Brown grass is not always dead grass. Learn the simple at-home tests that tell you whether your lawn...
Yellow grass often signals drought or low nitrogen. Lawns need 1-1.5 inches of water per week for re...
Bare patches signal deeper lawn problems, not just missing grass. Learn how to diagnose the cause, c...
Tired of brown spots and weeds despite your best efforts? Discover simple, fast fixes for common law...
If you’ve ever read a lawn care guide, scanned the back of a fertilizer bag, or asked for advice at...
There's something deeply satisfying about watching a barren patch of dirt transform into a lush, eme...