Category: Environment

fixing my yard

WIZARD130775 – posted 07 October 2005 15:27 I will be planting a new lawn this weekend. We have a new construction home and a really weed infested and patchy lawn at the moment. The...

Grass type?

jlweger – posted 10 October 2005 13:11 What type of grass seed or sod should I be looking at to purchase? I live in the southeast corner of Oklahoma. My frontyard is mostly shade...

New yard clay soil

bsd4 – posted 17 October 2005 11:21 Hello…First time poster long time reader. We are trying to start a new yard in middle tennessee. The soil is very hard red clay. We are using...

New sod lawn problems

dtw – posted 14 November 2005 11:42 I live in Portland Oregon and laid sod in early October. The grass perked up right away and grew quickly. In mid-october, I cut the grass and...

soil pH, nitrogen, etc.

atoner – posted 25 July 2003 21:14 As I said in my other post today, I bought a newly built house in North Carolina last August. The soil is dense clay with lots of...

leveling spots in a fescue lawn

G$ – posted 25 February 2004 17:06 I’ve been seeding with fescue in a pretty much dead lawn sodded with bremuda for the past couple of years and would like to start leveling some...

how much dirt?

shvlmnky – posted 02 September 2005 06:00 What would be the formula to figure, how much dirt would it take to fill and level out an area approximately: 550sq ft x 6in deep. Thank...

Red Clay problem

Rees – posted 15 September 2005 18:06 Greetings, first time writer. From Northern VA. My ten year old lawn is 75% clovers in the back. We have just dug out walkup basement steps and...