At a certain point, we all get into our own little groove when we're tidying up, and it is easy to turn our deep cleaning checklist into a habitual routine. Some of those habits we form, however, aren ...

Creating a lush green yard can be a labor of love for many homeowners. For others it is simply labor. Regardless of where you land on that continuum, mowing your grass properly to get it looking its ...

The regular reader knows I am a lawn-mowing fool. Show me a lawn, and in my mind I automatically map out ways I would mow it so the yard would look suitable, or more so, for a magazine cover. OK, it's ...

Have you been mowing your lawn for years, but still feel a little green at it? Lawn mowing, as it turns out, is an artform — and your grass blades can be a tad persnickety, with preferences on when ...

Switching up mowing patterns to create crisp lawn lines and a fresh look. A satisfying lawn care moment that highlights ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Every homeowner dreams of a lush and thick lawn. If you're lucky enough to have healthy turfgrass, you probably spend a lot of time keeping it manicured. When you need to trim a lawn full of tall ...

Do you know how they create the diamond patterns in the grass on baseball fields? I tried by cutting my St. Augustine lawn in a crisscross pattern and it didn't work very well. The designs are created ...

You become a Master Lawn Mower, in my mind, when you've learned to "lay down a pattern" other than the traditional back-and-forth or Leave It to Beaver style of the 1950s. You know what a pattern is: ...