Lawn Care
Looking for expert lawn care tips and guidance for your home? Whether it’s starting a new lawn from scratch and weed control to turf nutrition and soil amendments, or a quick on “how to” in your yard. In this section, you’ll find plenty of lawn care information.
How to Treat Snow Mold in Your Lawns (Typhula blight)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS I see a lot of snow mold every year. These circles of matted-down turf and mycelium appear on lawns every March and April after the harsh, cold, and snowy winters of ...
Spotty Leopard Print Patterns On Your Grass? It’s Chilling Injury
Are you seeing brown spots in irregular circular patterns on your lawn? Seeing spotty leopard prints and footprint-like spots in your grass after an early snowstorm or frost conditions? It’s not brown patch or leaf ...
What is Nitrogen Blitz?
A popular topic this time of year for cool season lawns is Nitrogen Blitz. This dedicated approach to feeding your lawn in the fall can provide many benefits for the remainder of the growing season. ...
How To Renovate Your Lawn (A Complete Guide to Full Lawn Renovation)
One of the hardest decisions (and jobs) when it comes to your lawn care plan is deciding whether or not you if need to start all over and do a full lawn renovation. To completely ...
How to Choose Grass Seed (Types of Warm & Cool Season Lawn Grass)
To grow a healthy, green lawn, you have to start with the best grass seed for your setting. In fact, grass seed is an umbrella term for many different grass species. Choosing the right type ...
Brown Patch Lawn Disease (How To Prevent + Treat)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS I’ve had two turf-type tall fescue (TTTF) lawns over the past five years and am no stranger to brown patch disease. It is also the most common disease that I encounter ...
How To Get Rid Of Grubs In Your Lawn
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS I experienced grub damage several years ago, and let me tell you, it’s no fun peeling back carpets of once-lush turf. I have since implemented a bulletproof strategy into my professional ...
How To Plant Grass Seed in Springtime (Overseeding in Spring)
If your lawn is looking thin or you have lots of bare spots, overseeing in spring can help fill it in. Overseeding cool-season and warm-season grasses in spring is a fairly easy task, and it ...
Early Spring Lawn Care Tips (2024)
There comes a point in every lawn care addict’s life when spring can’t come soon enough. After “springing ahead” an extra hour, the days are longer and the extra sunshine gives us all the extra ...
How To Get Rid Of Crabgrass (Kill + Prevent Crabgrass)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS Crabgrass control is all about timing. This annual grassy weed germinates in the spring when soil temperatures hit 55°F for three consecutive days, and it thrives during the hot summer months. ...
How To Prepare Your Lawn For Winter (6 Simple Steps)
Another growing season has come and gone. For us cool-season lawn care enthusiasts, the past seven months have flown by, and it’s time to put our lawns away for a long winter’s nap. So as ...
How To Kill Poa Annua (Annual Bluegrass/Poa Annua Control)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS The best way I have gotten rid of Poa Annua was by applying a pre-emergent at the end of summer. I’ve also had luck spraying Poa twice with Tenacity (Mesotrione), but ...