Caring For Your Lawn

Chemical lawn care is a ruse, a marketing scheme. Grass, as all gardeners know, is a tenacious weed that needs little help to be healthy. But Americans weaken their lawns with unnecessary chemicals, harsh fertilizing salts and improper cutting and watering. Grow the right grass at the right height and you will be amazed at how easy-care a great expanse of green can be.

1. Plant the right grass

In the North, you want a "cool-season" grass. Always green over winter, it may go brown and dormant during a hot and dry spell in late summer, but will quickly green up again when cool weather returns.

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