Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. My river birch tree that is about 30 feet tall had the top knocked off with ...

Centipede grass is often promoted as a low maintenance, easy-care grass -- and in many locations it thrives on neglect, requiring little to no fertilizer and infrequent mowing. Where centipede is ...

Dear Roger: We bought a house and five acres in Spring Lake in March. About half the property is covered with sandspurs, and we have no idea what to do. We have managed to keep them out of the front ...

Establishing the right lawn for your yard is important, especially with the selection of grasses we have for our area. They include Centipede, St. Augustine, Zoysia and Bermuda. Since Centipede is the ...

If areas of your centipede lawn failed to green up this spring, you are not alone. Cold weather this past winter damaged lawn grasses in our region, particularly centipede. Large areas of dead grass ...

Dear Roger: I am so fed up with having to mow every few days just to remove those pesky bahia grass seed heads that keep coming up. How can we get rid of the bahia? - Several readers Dear Readers: ...

Why is my centipede lawn yellowing and dying? Centipede grass has very specific growth requirements. We need to carefully manage it along these lines. If we do not, the lawn may get a condition called ...

Q: I had some work done in my yard in September. Knowing it was too late to plant centipede seed, I broadcast wheat straw. I’ll wait until May, go over the yard very well with a borrowed spike aerator ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I’m having problems with lots of small spots on the leaves of my ...

Lespedeza is a common summer weed in Louisiana lawns. The herbicide metsulfuron does a good job controlling lespedeza and it can be used following label directions despite the heat. (Dan Gill) ...