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Tell us about your lawn

Zip, size, what is growing, what you pay now. The plan, the shopping list, and the savings math all come from this.

Where

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Size

Lawn area, square feet

A typical collar-county quarter-acre lot has 5,000 to 7,000 sq ft of grass after the house and driveway. Measure front plus back on Google Maps if you want it exact.

What is growing

Kentucky bluegrass

The classic carpet lawn of the northern suburbs. Spreads by underground rhizomes, so it heals its own thin spots and gives that dense, striped, golf-fairway look.

Perennial ryegrass

The fast starter. Germinates in 5 to 7 days and is in nearly every bag of mix sold at the big box stores, so most lawns have some.

Tall fescue (turf-type)

The low-input choice. Deep roots make it the most drought and heat tolerant cool-season grass, so it stays green in August when bluegrass goes dormant.

Fine fescue

The shade grass. Needle-thin blades, tolerates dry shade under maples and oaks where nothing else survives, and needs the least mowing and feeding of all.

Sun and shade mix

Most bags labelled Sun & Shade are a blend of ryegrass, fine fescue, and a little bluegrass. Lawns seeded from them end up a patchwork, with each species winning where it is happiest.

Not sure? Pick bluegrass; it is most lawns here. You can photo-identify it later and change this.

Condition todaySun

What you pay now

A crew mows my lawnA service does weed and feed (TruGreen, Weed Man, Lawn Doctor)

Mower