Lawn and Garden


What To Do About Brown Grass - 07/07/2010

How To Cut High Grass - 06/02/2010

Troy-Bilt TriAction Lawn Mower Review - 05/10/2010

Letting Lawn Grass Go To Seed - 05/06/2010

Scotts EZ Seed Turf Builder Review… Growing Grass On A Brick - 04/18/2010

Using A Chipper Vac in the Spring - 03/27/2010

Tips For Growing A Great Lawn - 03/21/2010

Should You Cover Your Air Conditioner During The Winter? - 12/04/2009

Things To Remember When Buying LED Christmas Lights - 11/13/2009

House Numbers Plaque Review - 11/07/2009

Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh - 10/03/2009

Late Summer Is A Great Time For Home Improvements - 09/19/2009

How To Spread Mulch - 06/12/2009

How To Remove and Replace Lawn Mower Blades - 05/20/2009

Planting Grass Seed In the Rain - 05/06/2009

Scotts EZ Seed Coupon and Preview - 05/05/2009

When Is The Best Time To Plant Grass Seed? - 04/13/2009

Why A Pressure Treated Wood Fence is Worth The Money - 02/10/2009

How To Make A Gutter Cleaning Vacuum - 11/25/2008

50 Fall Home Improvement Projects You Can Do With Your Daylight Savings Hour - 10/31/2008

My Troy-Bilt Yard Chipper Vacuum Review - 10/13/2008

Quick Railroad Tie Flower Beds – My Last Summer Outdoor Home Improvement Project - 09/22/2008

Seven Quick and Easy Home Improvement Projects for the Fall - 09/08/2008

How To Install and Replace A Wooden Fence - 07/22/2008

Top Five Summer Home Improvement Projects - 07/14/2008

Ten Signs That You Might Be Obsessed with Your Lawn - 04/10/2008

How To Plant Grass Seed Quickly and Easily - 09/04/2007

Oldcastle’s Ugliest Patio Contest! - 08/03/2007

How-To Guide For Cutting Grass - 06/22/2007

How To Build Your Own Dirt and Stone Screen Sifter…with Wheels! - 06/04/2007

My Ugly Backyard: Step 1 – Removing the Dirt from the Stone - 05/25/2007

My Ugly Backyard Can Be Seen From Outer Space - 04/28/2007

Troubleshooting and Starting Your Lawnmower this Spring - 04/10/2007

Turn Your Lawn Mower Into A Leaf Vacuum and Shredder - 11/24/2006

How to Winterize Your Gas Lawnmower - 11/14/2006

What To Do About Brown Grass

Filed under: Exterior,Lawn and Garden - 07 Jul 2010

Brown Grass - is it dead?  Will it regrow?Okay, what is the photo on the right? Is it a photo from Africa’s Serengeti National Park? It is the remains of a foolish attempt to grow a lawn in the Arizona Desert? Maybe it’s a farm that specializes in growing hay?

Sadly, it is none of those things. It is, unfortunately, my back yard. I live in New Jersey where we’ve been suffering from a heck of a drought for the past three months. In March we had double the amount of …

How To Cut High Grass

Filed under: Lawn and Garden,The Lawn Mower - 02 Jun 2010

There are a number of reasons that you could find yourself in a situation where you need to be cutting tall grass that has simply become too thick or too tall to cut or mow very easily. And though you really should strive to never cut your grass more than 1/3 of its full height, there are times when you simply have to cut your grass more than that. Maybe you just bought a house and the yard was uncut for several months or maybe you went on a long vacation and came back to an extra high …

Troy-Bilt TriAction Lawn Mower Review

Troy-Bilt has always been a well-known brand when it comes to lawn mowers, but this year they’ve come out with a new line of lawn mowers that feature their new “TriAction Cutting System™” which is a collection of improvements designed to cut grass and mulch grass better than other mowers.

The Troy-Bilt TriAction TB230 Lawn Mower

The Troy-Bilt TB230: One of a new line of TriAction Lawn MowersA month or so ago Troy-Bilt contacted me after noticing how often I used my Troy-Bilt …

Letting Lawn Grass Go To Seed

Filed under: Lawn and Garden - 06 May 2010

There’s a long running debate in lawn and garden circles about whether you should ever let the grass in your lawn go to seed or whether you should always cut it before it gets to that point.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To go to seed or not to go to seed?… That is the question!”

Should I let my grass go to seed?

My grass is going to seed…While most of us cut our grass fairly regularly before the top of the grass blades can flower …

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