How to Level Your Lawn

Bumps, dips and low spots make a lawn look uneven, scalp when you mow, and collect water that encourages disease. In Phoenix, uneven lawns usually come from settling soil after construction, old irrigation trenches, tree roots, or years of foot traffic. The good news...

How to Get Rid of Poa Annua: The Ultimate Guide

Poa annua, often called annual bluegrass, is the light-green, clumpy grass that shows up in Phoenix lawns in winter and spring. It sends up whitish seed heads even at low mowing heights and stands out sharply against dormant tan Bermuda. It then dies back in the first...

How to Install Bermuda Grass Sod for a New Lawn

Bermuda grass is the backbone of Phoenix and Tucson lawns because it thrives in heat, recovers quickly from wear, and handles our intense sun better than most grasses. Installing it as sod gives you a finished lawn in a day. The difference between a lawn that roots in...

How to Stripe Your Lawn

Stripes are the light and dark bands you see on ballfields and golf courses. They are not two different grasses. They come from bending the grass blades in opposite directions so they reflect sunlight differently. Blades bent away from you reflect more light and look...

Can You Lay Sod in Winter?

Phoenix is one of the few places in the country where the honest answer to “can you lay sod in winter?” is usually yes. Our winters are short and mild, the ground almost never freezes, and a dormant Bermuda lawn laid in December will be rooted and green by...