Getting your grass green and thick doesn't require expensive treatments or professional help. Most lawn problems come down to basic care issues that you can fix yourself with the right techniques.

Here’s when to fertilize, whether to seed or sod, and how to treat grubs and fix shade, watering and soil problems.

Spring should reveal a thick, green carpet, not a patchwork of yellow, brown, and bare soil. When your lawn stalls while the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brown patch fungus loves Southern summers, so mow at the right height, water early, and avoid heavy nitrogen to keep grass healthy ...

When it comes to getting the most out of those nutrients, the timing and frequency of fertilizer applications is important.

With temperatures warming up and your lawn awakening, it makes sense to begin watering it, especially when it looks so brown ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Is your grass is crunchy? All the heat and lack of rain have a lot of homeowners not happy with what is happening to their lawns. 2 Wants To Know asked the experts at the NCSU Ag ...

Q : Can you tell what is going on with the lawn from this photo (see reader's photo)? Last year it was green, and this year it has slowly begun looking like this. A: The problem could be several ...

Pick your favorite Olympic image: Turkish target shooting (with off-hand in a pocket, of course), forced niceties between rival Australia and US swimmer, or pint-sized mega athlete Simone Biles flying ...

Mondo grass even comes in unusual colors, such as this one that is so dark green it appears to be black. Most are much greener. Proven Winners One of my readers tells me he is ready to give up trying ...

This sounds like a gossipy tall tale, but I know a hostess who discovered brown patches in her lawn just a few days before a summer garden party. Since everything had to be perfect, she spray-painted ...