Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset – Features seven short how-to videos and photo galleries plus interactive images and concise directions to make it quick and easy to understand the steps to cultivating a healthy lawn that is an attractive environmental asset. Also available on iTunes or as .pdf file.
Turfgrass Species and Variety Guidelines for NYS – Now available as .pdf. Thinking about starting a new lawn or renovating an old one? This iBook will help you choose the grass species and varieties best adapted to your growing conditions, lawn care plan and expectations. Also available on iTunes.
Lawn Care Without Pesticides – Arm yourself with an understanding of what grasses need to thrive — and commit to a long-term plan to meet those needs — and you can grow a perfectly acceptable lawn while foregoing lawn chemicals. [12 MB .pdf]
Homeowners Lawn Care Water Quality Almanac – Provides a month-by-month plan for lawn care that results in a healthy lawn while preventing environmental damage.
NYSIPM Program factsheets:
- Grubs in Your Lawn? a guide for lawn care professionals and homeowners
- Weeds and Your Lawn
- Weed Suppressive Ground Covers – See also: Weed Suppressive Ground Covers Brochure
Mow less!
Learn about our urban grassland work at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in this short PSA from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams. For more information, see our webinar Managing Green-Wood Cemetery in an Era of Climate Change.
More lawn webinars:
- Cale Bigelow, Purdue University, on lawn mowing heights and water requirements by turf species [2020-05-29]
- Paige Boyle, Utah State University on earthworms and clover lawns [2020-05-15]
- Healthy Lakeside Lawn Care [2020-05-14]
- Matt Elmore, Rutgers University, on goosegrass and crabgrass control [2020-05-08]
- Lawn and Landscape Webinar 6: Joellen Lampman on what to know about ticks [2020-05-01]
- Karl Guillard, University of Connecticut, on nitrogen and water quality [2020-04-24]
- Maggie Reiter, University of California Cooperative Extension, on organic alternatives to glyphosate [2020-04-17]
- Doug Soldat, University of Wisconsin on the physical, chemical, and biological components of soils[2020-04-10]
- Dr. Matt Ellmore, Rutgers University, discusses early season weed management [2020-04-03]
- Best Management Practices for COVID-19 [2020-03-27]