Whether you have a sprawling front yard or a small patch of grass, everyone wants their lawn to look lush come spring and summer. The secret to a beautiful landscape is knowing when to sow grass seed, ...

Timing is everything: get your lawn off to a good start with proper seeding. As the first signs of spring arrive, homeowners are eager to get the garden and lawn in shape. For turf areas, this often ...

Planting grass seed is a task on the list for many homeowners each year. Even if your lawn is full and lush, often a bit of reseeding is needed occasionally to fill in bare spots. Most often, grass ...

Dormant seeding is a technique that takes advantage of winter temperatures to plant grass so that by spring you're growing a ...

For many home growers, gardeners, and farmers, spring is a busy time in the gardening year. In the period running up to and immediately after the last frost date in your area, you might be sowing a ...

One of the first things people like to check off their "to-do" list in the spring is plant grass seed. This is understandable because, at the end of winter, the bare areas in the lawn are very ...

We tend to think of spring as peak seed-sowing season, but you can get a head start in your garden by planting certain vegetable and flower seeds now. Not only will this help reduce your workload when ...

Q. I am getting ready to replant my grass. Please recommend a pre-emergent herbicide, fertilizer and mixture of grass seed that would do well in my mostly shady yard. Mark Schultz, Ann Arbor A. Mark's ...

When is a good time to prune my fruit trees? Fall is absolutely the worst time for pruning fruit trees. The best time to prune fruit trees is when the trees are dormant, although under certain ...

Even in the colder months, you can take steps towards a healthy lawn, even if you're starting from seed. Winter grass seeding allows certain grass types to settle into the layer of soil before ...

Having a great lawn takes more than great grass seed. Sometimes, it takes a bit of effort effort. One of the tasks that people always seem to focus on is seeding and reseeding their lawns. One way to ...