Take a walk around your yard, and look for young weeds. “Ideally, you want to find them before they take off,” says Waltz.

When grass seed is applied during dormant seeding, it settles into the soil, waiting to germinate when the warmer ...

Now in its second year, the World’s Ugliest Lawn competition rewards lawn owners for not watering their parched yellow grass and patchy flowerbeds. The winning lawn in the settlement of Birdlings Flat ...