Healthy lawns start with manure
Manure is a gardener's best friend. Composted manure -- available at hardware stores -- feeds your lawn and improves the soil. It can also be added to flower and vegetable beds.
Fresh manure stinks and will burn your lawn, but composted manure is odorless and supplies slow-release nutrients. It's easy to spread by hand. Use it to fill in low spots as well.
The result is a healthy, more drought-tolerant lawn.
Dandelions have always been a common lawn weed. Don't use poisons. Get a dandelion digger. It's easy to pop them out by the roots. Don't let them go to seed. If you take care of them now, you'll have very few in the years to come. I don't need to dig more than a dozen or so each spring.
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