Guides
Written for Lawns Like Yours
Timing, soil and pest guidance specific to the Upstate transition zone — not generic advice written for a different climate.
Best management practices
The Principles Behind Every Program
Know your grass before you feed it
Warm-season grasses and fescue want nitrogen at opposite ends of the year. Feeding fescue hard in midsummer, or Bermuda in November, is the fastest way to push a lawn into disease rather than out of it.
Water deeply, not often
Piedmont clay takes water slowly. Long, infrequent soakings push roots down; daily light sprinkling keeps them at the surface, where August will find them.
Raise the mower in summer
Taller turf shades its own soil and its own roots. On fescue especially, mowing height is the cheapest drought and weed control available to a homeowner.
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