The Year-Round Lawn Calendar

Across 68 pages, The Year-Round Lawn Calendar helps you decide when to seed, feed, inspect, repair, or leave the lawn alone. The date on a bag cannot tell you whether the soil is compacted, the roots are active, or rain is coming. This book shows you how to make those calls using your region, grass type, soil, weather, and the condition of the lawn in front of you.

Inside this edition (68 pages, 9 chapters):

• Start with the lawn you actually have—identify its broad grass type, regional growing cycle, present condition, and realistic needs before choosing a treatment.

• Use The Soil Test to prevent guesswork—collect representative samples, submit them to a laboratory, and make practical sense of pH and nutrient results.

• Treat seed as a timing decision—understand seed-to-soil contact, germination moisture, site preparation, and the differences between overseeding, patching, and full renovation.

• Follow the cool-season calendar—plan late-summer preparation, fall establishment, measured feeding, restrained spring work, and summer survival for fescues, bluegrass, and ryegrass.

• Work through the transition zone—choose the growing cycle you are actually managing instead of mixing schedules that pull the lawn in opposite directions.

• Follow the warm-season calendar—coordinate green-up, establishment, feeding, mowing, and late-season restraint for bermudagrass, zoysiagrass, centipedegrass, and St. Augustinegrass.

• Feed active growth—read fertilizer labels, use soil-test findings, account for rainfall and irrigation, and recognize when an application should wait.

• Diagnose grubs and moss before buying a treatment—separate grub injury from drought, disease, and weak roots, then address the shade, moisture, drainage, or compaction behind moss.

• Repair dog spots and keep a working record—rinse affected soil before reseeding, check the weather, and turn the regional guidance into a reusable monthly routine.

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