We've answered a lot of questions at the Minnesota State Fair over the years and know that fairgoers will have even more questions this year with all the recent challenges to our lawns. This webpage summarizes resources to help with some of the most common questions we receive.
Watering your lawn
- Water-saving strategies for home lawns
- Auditing irrigation systems (pdf)
- Tips for drought (pdf)
- Irrigation resources
- Allow some browning in lawns to conserve water
Pests
- Creeping Charlie
- Identification and control from UMN Extension
- Management and Value to Pollinators
- Japanese beetles in yards and gardens from UMN Extension
- Tips for controlling crabgrass in your lawn from UMN Extension
General lawn care
- Lawn care from UMN Extension
- Lawn care calendar from UMN Extension
- Finding the right grass seed
- Overview of the different turfgrass species used in Minnesota (pdf)
- Purchasing turfgrass seed
- Planting and maintaining a fine fescue lawn from UMN Extension (NEW for 2022!)
- Which fine fescue should you use?
- How to control thatch in your lawn from UMN Extension
- Dormant seeding from UMN Extension
- How-to videos from Turfgrass Science team
Bee lawns
- Planting and maintaining a bee lawn from UMN Extension
- Installing and maintaining a bee lawn (pdf)
- Bee lawns: turfgrass with flowering plants (pdf)
- Purchasing bee lawn seed
- May I Not Mow in May?
Lawn Care Newsletter (NEW for 2022!)