Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. My river birch tree that is about 30 feet tall had the top knocked off with ...

Centipede cannot tolerate extended wet periods when it is dormant and will die in spots that are even slightly lower than the rest of the lawn. Southeast Louisiana experienced record-breaking rainfall ...

Centipede grass is often promoted as a low maintenance, easy-care grass -- and in many locations it thrives on neglect, requiring little to no fertilizer and infrequent mowing. Where centipede is ...

Dear Roger: We bought a house and five acres in Spring Lake in March. About half the property is covered with sandspurs, and we have no idea what to do. We have managed to keep them out of the front ...

Establishing the right lawn for your yard is important, especially with the selection of grasses we have for our area. They include Centipede, St. Augustine, Zoysia and Bermuda. Since Centipede is the ...

If areas of your centipede lawn failed to green up this spring, you are not alone. Cold weather this past winter damaged lawn grasses in our region, particularly centipede. Large areas of dead grass ...

A mix of several conversations I have had in Possum’s this year. Between moles and other unknown causes, my lawn took a beating this season. I have a lot of patchy, bare areas. I was thinking of ...