Introduction

With a combination of soil additives, fertilizers, and tender, loving care, you can change your lawn from scraggly to golf-course green in one season.

Achieving a lush grass lawn doesn’t have to be a constant struggle. And you don’t have to pay big bucks for a lawn service to douse your yard with chemicals either. Learning how to fix your lawn and grow healthy, green grass is mainly just a matter of knowing what to give your lawn and when to give it.

In this story, we’ll show you what to do in the spring, summer and fall to get a grass lawn so nice you could cut it up and sell it as sod. These steps will work for any yard, regardless of climate or soil type.

We worked with lawn care expert George Dege, better known as Mr. Lawn. Following Mr. Lawn’s advice, we worked on the lawn shown here from spring to summer. In March, it had dead patches of grass caused by voles. By August, the grass over the entire lawn was so thick we felt like we were walking on a shag carpet. And the grass lawn looked great too. It was noticeably greener than the neighboring yards.

We also spoke with Craig Elworthy, the founder of Lawnbright, to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about patchy lawns.

About the Experts

• George Dege has been teaching lawn care classes since the 1970s and has helped thousands of homeowners improve their lawns.
• Craig Elworthy is the founder of Lawnbright; he’s combined his 20+ years of tech experience with his knowledge of lawns to help his clients learn what it takes to fix a patchy lawn.

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