When the winter months are in full swing and your lawn looks less than lush, it’s tempting to start planning for greener days. But is January the right time to sprinkle grass seed and jumpstart your ...

Plant Medic columnist Ricky Kemery says frost seeding can allow turfgrass to develop early in the spring, but warns the ...

Lawns can become thin over time because of environmental factors like too much shade, water, and loss of nutrients. Grass might also become patchy due to disease, mowing too low, and heavy foot ...

Slit seeding is an efficient and effective way to overseed a lawn. It offers homeowners a tried and tested alternative to ...

It’s the time of year to get gardening. Today let’s work on our biggest garden - our lawns. If you have sparse grass in parts of your lawn, spring is a great time to plant additional grass seed.

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 ...

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 ...

Autumn's approaching, and thoughts turn to lawns. Whether you're starting a new lawn from scratch or adding to an existing one, you face the same dilemma. Should you opt for the quick fix of turf or ...

Most lawn seed mixes are unclear on what's acutally in them Credit: Photo: ALAMY Ever since Which? Gardening tested different brands of lawn seed a while ago and discovered that some were much better ...

We can’t all be like the dedicated gardeners who use autumn to get their turf in top-notch order to ensure that it goes into the winter looking almost as good as it does in the height of summer. Did ...