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What Is the Best Grass Type for Northwest Arkansas?

Introduction One of the questions we get most often from homeowners who are starting fresh, reseeding a damaged lawn, or just frustrated with what they have, is some version of: what grass should I actually have? It is a great question, and it deserves a real answer rather than a one-size-fits-all recommendation. Northwest Arkansas sits

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Is It Too Late to Treat My Lawn in the Fall?

Introduction Every fall we hear from homeowners who assume the lawn care season is over. Summer is done, the grass is slowing down, and the instinct is to put lawn care on hold until spring. That instinct costs a lot of lawns more than homeowners realize. Fall is one of the most productive treatment windows

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Why Does My Lawn Have Dead Spots After Winter?

Introduction You get your first warm weekend of the year and head out to check on the lawn. Most of it is starting to show color, tinges of green coming back after months of dormancy. But there are spots, sometimes small patches, sometimes large irregular areas, that are just not coming back. Dead spots after

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How Do I Know If My Lawn Has Grubs?

Introduction You have been watering consistently. You did not skip your fertilizer applications. But sometime in late summer a section of your lawn starts looking brown and stressed, and it is not responding the way drought-stressed grass normally does. Then you notice birds digging into the turf. Or you try to pull back a section

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Why Does My Lawn Look Worse After Scalping or Early Spring Mowing?

Introduction Every spring, homeowners across Northwest Arkansas do the same thing. They see their lawn looking brown and matted from winter and decide to scalp it down to almost nothing, convinced that cutting it short will help it green up faster. Then a week later the lawn looks just as bad, or worse, and they

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The Real Reason Your Lawn Is Thin and Full of Weeds

Introduction Walk into any lawn care conversation in Northwest Arkansas and you will hear two complaints more than any others. My lawn is thin. And my lawn is full of weeds. Homeowners treat these as separate problems and hire separate solutions for them. Weed spray in spring, overseeding in fall, and yet nothing seems to

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Why Your Lawn Looks Good on Top but Is Dying Underneath

Introduction Every summer, homeowners across Northwest Arkansas watch their lawns fall apart in July and August and wonder what went wrong. The lawn looked fine in May. They did not change anything. Why is it burning up now? The answer is almost always that the lawn was never as healthy as it appeared. What you

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