Lawn Care Questions

Collecting yard clippings in the fall will reduce the incidence of snow mold in the spring. Otherwise, you generally want to mulch to return nutrients to the soil and keep it cooler.

Gertens does collect lawn clippings, otherwise many people do compost them with leaves in the fall in a dedicated compost pile.

Generally, you want to aim to water your lawn deeply and infrequently. Once a week for an hour or so is better than every other day for half an hour.

If your lawn has dog damage, put down some gypsum and soak it all through for at least 6 hours till saturation point. After that you can rake away the dead grass and reseed as normal.

There are many correct ways to Aerate, the least invasive way is biological aeration with C20. You can also do a mechanical core aeration, lay down a layer of compost and gypsum, water all the plugs in and reseed. The timing is far more critical, the...

When discussing weeds, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. A thick lawn that is watered deeply and infrequently, cut to 3” high and not mechanically disturbed in the spring when most weed seeds are germinating will have less weeds. Putting...

Hand pulling or using an iron based natural broadleaf weed killer are safe ways to weed.

Liquid applications are easier to burn with and generally not recommended, as it will be 100% synthetic. With granular applications you have your choice of going for all slow release and non-burning, or a mixture of fast and slow release. The slower release in the fertilizer formulation, the harder it will be to burn with.

Full sun is six or more hours of direct sunlight, part sun is four to six hours of sunlight including some afternoon sun, part shade is four to six hours of sun before midday, full shade is less than four hours of sun.