Brown Spots in Your Lawn: The Ultimate DIY Guide
Brown spots in your lawn can be frustrating and confusing. These unsightly patches might be caused by various issues such as fungal diseases, insects, drought stress, or fertilizer burn. This comprehensive guide will help you accurately diagnose and treat the underlying causes, bringing your lawn back to vibrant health. Step 1: Identify the Issue—Why...
How to Adjust Your Soil pH (Up or Down) and the Products to Use
Why Soil pH Matters Adjusting your soil pH is one of the most powerful yet overlooked ways to improve your lawn's health. Whether your soil is too acidic or too alkaline, dialing it into the right range will help nutrients become available and allow your grass to thrive. What is Soil pH and How...
How to Protect Your Lawn During a Heat Dome | Summer Lawn Care Tips
Prepare Your Lawn for the Coming Heat Dome Note: If you’re one of our Yard Mastery app users and your “calendar” menu disappeared recently, that bug has been fixed. Please update to version 3.01.07. We apologize for the downtime! If you don’t have the app, it’s free — get your customized lawn plan based...
Florida Fertilizer Ban? Use Pre-Ban 40-0-0 to Stay Compliant
My Florida friends, it’s May, and it’s still dry!! I’m in Bradenton, and we actually ended up getting a little rain today (May 8) and then some last Sunday as well. These were good rains, too, light and fairly long, but they are just not enough! I have some content coming out next week...
Winter Lawn Tips for Florida
Winter in Florida can be interesting, and this year is no different. Where I live in Bradenton, we have gone from highs in the 90s just 2 weeks ago to the 70s, and today, we just got a big rainstorm and had 16 straight hours of high humidity, which is pretty rare for this...
How To Apply Granular Fertilizer
In this article, I’m going to take you step-by-step on how to apply Yard Mastery fertilizers and know that your spreader setting is correct. I have a detailed video that you should also watch you can find that here: How to Apply Fertilizer In this example, I will be utilizing 24-0-6 Flagship but you...
Fall Lawn Care Steps - No Grass Seed Needed
For those of you with cool season grass, Kentucky Bluegrass, perennial ryegrass and turf type tall fescue, the big push this time of year is aeration and over-seeding. The pressure to burn down the lawn and start over is real.Many of you take my advice and work with your existing lawn to aerate and...