Your lawn can be the envy of the neighborhood! Learn how to select the best grass for your lawn and how to maintain it.

Join Horticulture Agent, Shawn Banks, for Lawn Maintenance Best Practices on Wednesday, May 29th, 5:30-6:30pm, at the Western Branch of the Carteret County Public Library System at 230 Taylor Notion Road, Cape Carteret, NC.

Sandy soils, salt spray, and high humidity all combine to make growing grass in our area a little bit difficult, and that's doesn't even include all the other issues. In this workshop, we want to help you select the best lawn to grow in your yard in any season. Some species of grass won't grow in the shade, while others are happy there. Certain grass varieties can be maintained to look like a golf course fairway, while others prefer a taller, more park-like appearance. Some types of lawn need to be mowed two or three times each week, others are happy with once a week or even less. Come with ideas about how you want your lawn to look and how much work you want to put into maintaining that lawn and we'll help you select the lawn that will work best for you.

Along with selecting the proper grass for your lawn, we'll also go over lawn maintenance such as how often does the lawn need to be fertilized? How tall to cut the grass? How to set the lawn mower at the proper height? How to tell when the lawnmower blades need to be sharpened? What type of fertilizer is best? We'll answer these questions for bermudagrass, centipedegrass, zoysiagrass, and St. Augustinegrass. There will also be a lawn maintenance calendar for you to take home for whichever grass you have or would like to have growing in your yard.

Bring your other questions and we'll see what we can do to answer those questions as well. This is a free workshop but registration is required.