Q: We have a play set in the sun for our toddler. The soil underneath is dry and cracking. What would you recommend to put there so she can crawl and not get eaten up by ants or cut by mulch? Rachel ...

Tom Rogers, who is the proud owner of a Zeon zoysia lawn in Williamsburg, recently spray painted his lawn green so it looks lush and alive during winter. Zoysia, a warm-season grass like Bermuda, ...

Tom Rogers and his yard are the envy of the neighborhood this summer. While surrounding cool-season fescue lawns bake in abnormally dry, hot weather, his warm-season zoysia stays mostly lush and green ...

As a turf-grass scientist at Virginia Tech, Mike Goatley has spent years looking at the various types of grass used for America’s archetypal landscape feature, the lawn. His preference comes down to ...

No matter how much TLC you give your lawn, chances are you’ll occasionally need to patch a sparse area. It’s not difficult, but timing is everything. “The earlier you get warm season grasses started, ...

This is the second of two articles that deal with the challenge of growing a beautiful summer lawn here in the Aiken area. Because we've had a cold winter, we're expecting to see some die-back in most ...