Lawn Care Automation Lawn Care Automation 14 articles on lawn care — guides, reviews and comparisons from the team that measures real lawns.
Tips & Maintenance Can a Robot Mower Make a Bad Lawn Look Good? My lawn had crabgrass, weeds and thin spots, and my robot mower made it look great all summer anyway. Here's how — and why I'm fixing what's underneath this fall. 
Tips & Maintenance Daily Mowing Kills Weeds: How a Robot Mower Changes Weed Control Weeds that seed above the cut can't reseed under a daily cut, broadleaf weeds lose to thriving grass, and a crabgrass patch dies in a zone cut under an inch daily. 
Lawn care Spongy Lawn, Puddles After Rain: Aeration and Dethatching A spongy lawn or water sitting after rain means thatch or compacted soil. The two tests, core aeration vs dethatching, when to do each, and seeding into the holes. 
Lawn care Brown Circles in the Lawn: Brown Patch, Dollar Spot and Fungus Circles that widen after humid nights are a fungus. Brown patch, dollar spot, fairy rings and summer patch told apart, the four habits that stop them, when to spray. 
Lawn care Crabgrass: Why It's Back Every Summer, and the Date That Beats It Crabgrass dies at frost and comes back from seed. The pre-emergent date (forsythia bloom, 55°F soil), the seeding conflict, and the thick lawn that ends it. 
Lawn care Why Is My Lawn Yellow? What Fertilizer Your Lawn Actually Needs Yellow all over, in patches or in stripes: three different problems. Read the color, decode the bag's numbers, feed by season, and the $15 test that beats guessing. 
Lawn care Something Is Digging Up My Lawn: Grubs, and What Digs for Them Turf that lifts like carpet and animals digging at night mean grubs. How to count them, the number worth treating, the two treatment windows, and reseeding. 
Lawn care Moss and Thin Grass Under Trees: How to Grow a Lawn in Shade Moss grows where grass gave up on the light. How much sun a lawn needs, the fine fescue that copes, lifting the canopy, and when to make it a bed instead. 
Lawn care Why Won't My Lawn Fill In? Repairing Bare and Thin Spots Why bare spots never fill in (bunch grasses, shade, traffic, compaction), how much seed a patch needs, the repair in order, and when the mower goes back on. 
Lawn care Why Does My Lawn Look Brown After Mowing? The ⅓ Rule and Blades White, frayed tips a day after mowing aren't disease — they're dull blades. The ⅓ rule, the right height for your grass, and the two-minute fix. 
Lawn care Dry Lawn or Dog Spots? Watering Right and Fixing the Circles Footprints that stay pressed in mean drought; a dead circle with a lush ring is a dog spot. The inch-a-week rule, when to water, dormancy, and fixing each circle. 
Lawn care What Kind of Weed Is This, and How Do I Get Rid of It? Tell a broadleaf weed from a grassy one in ten seconds, what each says about your lawn, the fix that holds, and why a robot's daily cut is half of weed control. 
Customer Installs Why He Ripped Out His Boundary Wire Mower — Warrington, PA Six years without aerating, because of one buried wire. Why a Warrington, Bucks County homeowner swapped his boundary wire robot mower for a wire-free Navimow X430. 
Buying Guides 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Robotic Lawn Mowing Three seasons of robot mowing taught me 10 things I wish I knew on day one — the mulch-bed edging trick, buffer zones, deck height, daily micro-cutting and more.