Timing is crucial in lawn care; begin mowing too early, and new growth could be damaged. Grass type determines when to start mowing; cool-season spurt early, warm-season later. Proper preparation ...

Manicured lawns are out; wild, pollinator-friendly meadows are in. Here’s how to turn your Northern Michigan yard into a pocket prairie filled with native plants. This article first appeared in ...

Gary Bell, a life-long gardener and Lincolnite, will give a presentation on starting an urban pocket prairie at 7 p.m. Monday, March 6, at the Lincoln Garden Club meeting in Robin Mickle Middle School ...

The grass will be growing again before you know it, so while you’re out there checking out what winter did to the landscape, do some lawn-readying by raking matted leaves and removing trash, fallen ...

“Most of your root growth takes place during the fall,” says David Yost with Merrifield Garden Center. “Grass loves ...

Why talk about lawns in late March? I mean the magnolias are flowering, the forsythia is in bloom and there’s a crowded lineup of others standing in the wings to add to the show. Seems lawns are the ...

“I contracted with a landscape firm to prep and seed my front and back yards. The landscapers removed the degraded grass entirely and then prepped and seeded. The front yard is filled with weeds and ...