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Garden Fact Sheets

Basic Lawn Care

Lawn Care (7.202) PDF version Covers the basics: mowing, watering, fertilizing, and thatch management in your Colorado lawn without water restrictions

Renovating the Home Lawn (7.241) PDF version How to change your lawn from one species to another, renovate/rejuvenate an old lawn, or repair a lawn that has been damaged by drought or pests

Watering Established Lawns (7.199) PDF version How to water an established lawn

Eliminate Grass Clipping Collection (7.007) PDF version It is beneficial to leave the grass clippings on your lawn when you mow

Lawn Weed Control
Broadleaf Weed Control in Lawns (3.100) PDF version How to manage dandelion, clover, thistle, bindweed and other broadleaf weeds in your lawn

Control of Weedy Grasses in Home Lawns (3.101) PDF version How to manage crabgrass, foxtail, and other annual grassy weeds in your lawn

Control of Perennial Weedy Grasses in the Home Lawn PDF version ONLY How to identify and manage bentgrass, quackgrass and other perennial grassy weeds in your lawn

Lawn Disease Management

2.900 Necrotic Ring Spot in Turfgrass PDF version
2.901 Ascochyta Leaf Blight of Turf PDF version
2.908 Fairy Ring in Turfgrass PDF version
2.909 Leaf Spot and Melting Out Diseases PDF version
2.933 Dollar Spot Disease of Turfgrass PDF version

Lawn Insect Management
5.505 Clover and Other Mites of Turfgrass PDF version
5.509 Sod Webworms and Cutworms PDF version
5.516 Billbugs and White Grubs PDF version
5.608 Leafhoppers on Lawns PDF version

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