Monkey grass is pretty low-maintenance when it comes to fertilization. "In average to rich soils, additional fertilizer isn't necessary," Hancock explains. If your soil is on the poorer side, you may ...

Q. You recently mentioned dwarf mondo grass. Is this also called dwarf monkey grass? My landscaper planted a patch. Some of the plugs are doing great; others are mostly brown and they are in the same ...

Q: My monkey grass browns many summers, but it never has done it this badly. What caused it to do this? A: This was an unusually rough summer on monkey grass (also commonly called mondo grass). I had ...

The usual reason to replace one of the lawn grasses with another type of groundcover is because there is too much shade to support a grass variety. Even the most shade-tolerant grass, St. Augustine, ...

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