In the yard maintenance system, people are visited by two separate yet equally important groups: the weeds, who plague the lawns; and the mowers, who whack the weeds. These are their stories. Featured ...

In the suburbs, homeowners take their lawns seriously. A neighbor, who maintains an impeccable bed of grass in his backyard, once spent a full hour explaining to me how he’d had a sample of his soil ...

All over the country the air is thick with the song of a thousand lawn mowers. The grass is lapping ankles and the first wands of spring sunshine trigger the internal lawn mower in every manly chest.

When your lawn starts turning green as the weather warms up, it seems like it's truly springtime. A few simple care practices at this time of year will go a long way toward promoting a dense stand of ...

After what felt like one of the longest, toughest, wettest, coldest, windiest winters in years, it’s fair to say that spring – yahay! – has finally sprung. Yet the scars left behind by all of that ...

It didn't take long for Spencer Marble to start his own business in lawn maintenance after moving to northern St. Johns County from Brighton, Mich., over a year ago. For the 18-year-old Marble, what ...

My yard is not what anyone would consider overly maintained. I like to think of it as being natural and free, although I’m sure many other people just think of it as a mess that has grown out of ...

You could hardly find a better example of a neatly manicured lawn than in the charming cottage garden surrounding John Dixon and Marianne Griffiths's rural retreat in West Sussex. The extensive, ...