Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gardener holds a handful of grass seed above lawn. - Dean Clarke/Shutterstock Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is found in ...

Key Points Add a layer of topsoil to help keep seeds in place and protected from the elements and hungry birds.Water your ...

When you're ready for a beautiful new lawn, sometimes it feels like forever.

Cool temperatures over the past three weeks have slowed the germination and establishment of perennial ryegrass used for divot repair. Pre-germinating the seed can jump start this process. Although ...

Grass seed is the easiest and most economical way to start a cool-season lawn. But sometimes the seed can be slow to get going after planting. If it's been more than two weeks since seeding and you ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

It can be a nail-biting experience when you've recently seeded your lawn and rain is in the forecast. You may have visions of that costly seed being washed away. This isn't necessarily the case, say ...

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc.) to ...

Editor's note: Gardening columnist Randy Reeves submitted the following article from Adam Russell, extension communications specialist in Overton, for this week's column. The article also will appear ...