A Professional's Guide to Mowing Patterns and Techniques" offers insight on patters, techniques, selection, and more.

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a woman mowing lawn with a red lawn mower - AndrWater/Shutterstock At a certain point, we all get into our own little groove when ...

Cool-season grasses grow quickly in the spring, and waiting too long to make the first cut can stress the lawn unnecessarily, ...

Lawn striping is a mowing technique that creates a pattern of alternating light and dark green stripes on your lawn, similar to what you see on professional sports fields and on golf courses. Gene ...

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The regular reader knows I am a lawn-mowing fool. Show me a lawn, and in my mind I automatically map out ways I would mow it so the yard would look suitable, or more so, for a magazine cover. OK, it's ...

A man mows his the lawn in his backyard next to a garden bed filled with flowering shrubs and small trees. - Olena Miroshnichenko/Getty Images Every homeowner dreams of a lush and thick lawn. If ...

What do you do when you mow the lawn? I like to listen to podcasts and think of new blog ideas. This one has been in my head for a long time. What is the best way to mow the lawn? Should I just go ...