Centipede grass is often promoted as a low maintenance, easy-care grass -- and in many locations it thrives on neglect, requiring little to no fertilizer and infrequent mowing. Where centipede is ...

In some yards, centipede grass thrives on neglect, producing a dense, healthy carpet of grass with little care. Yet, in other yards, centipede lawns are plagued with problems. Some are caused by ...

Dear Roger: We bought a house and five acres in Spring Lake in March. About half the property is covered with sandspurs, and we have no idea what to do. We have managed to keep them out of the front ...

Establishing the right lawn for your yard is important, especially with the selection of grasses we have for our area. They include Centipede, St. Augustine, Zoysia and Bermuda. Since Centipede is the ...

Why is my centipede lawn yellowing and dying? Centipede grass has very specific growth requirements. We need to carefully manage it along these lines. If we do not, the lawn may get a condition called ...

Dear Roger: I am so fed up with having to mow every few days just to remove those pesky bahia grass seed heads that keep coming up. How can we get rid of the bahia? - Several readers Dear Readers: ...

Q. Where can we get a year-round lawn care maintenance schedule-one that will tell us how to keep our lawn green and weed-free. I wondered if there was some sort of list of what to do and when, when ...

Centipede is a low maintenance grass that is adapted to our infertile soil along the coast. Over-watering and over-fertilizing cause a buildup of thatch, the lignin part of centipede that does not ...