About
We just really like getting this right
A small group of people who care about lawns more than is strictly reasonable, writing the answers we wish we had found the first time.
Every one of us has killed a lawn at least once. We have bought the wrong seed for our climate, spread fertiliser at the wrong time of year, watered a fungal problem until it spread, and diagnosed grubs that turned out to be a dog. The answers were out there somewhere — they were just buried in advice written for a completely different part of the country, with no indication that it did not apply to ours.
That is the whole reason this site exists. We write the guide we needed at the time: the specific answer, the reason behind it, and a clear statement of which growing zone it holds true for. If the honest answer is “it depends on your soil test”, we say that instead of inventing a number that sounds authoritative.
What we care about
Being useful in the first two sentences. Nobody searching “why is my grass yellow” wants a thousand words on the history of turfgrass before the answer. We put the answer at the top and the depth underneath it, for the people who want to understand rather than just fix.
We also care about not wasting your money. A lot of lawn content exists to sell a product, which is why so much of it recommends buying something. Sometimes the right answer is to mow higher, water less, and wait — so that is what we write.
How the guides get checked
Recommendations are checked against university extension publications, which is where the regional turf research actually lives, and against manufacturer documentation for anything we name specifically. Sources are listed at the foot of each guide so you can read them yourself. When a guide is revised, its updated date changes — no quiet edits.
Tell us when we are wrong
Lawns are local. If something here does not match what actually happens in your yard, that is worth knowing, and we would rather hear it than not. Corrections get made and credited. The same goes for questions we have not covered yet — a good question from a reader is usually a better article idea than anything we come up with on our own.
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