Top-dressing a lawn is a fancy term for amending the soil without disturbing the sod. Golfers might be familiar with the practice because this technique was first performed on golf courses in Scotland ...

Q: We built a house two years ago and are struggling to establish a new lawn. Our soil is mostly clay and highly compacted. I aerated the lawn last year and am planning to aerate again as well as ...

I use my own homemade compost sifted with a homemade hardware-cloth sieve after cooking for a year. The finished material is fine, black and loaded with nutrition and microorganisms. You can also buy ...

In our own climate we are not generally overwhelmed with leaves. They usually don’t pile up 6 to 8 inches deep, and if they pile up at all, they will decompose quickly. The decomposed leaves add ...