Renovating Your Lawn

Homeowners with troubled lawns often throw their hands up and simply start over, ripping out the old sod and laying down new grass. Depending on the extent of the damage, however, it can be less expensive and labor intensive to renovate the current lawn.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Your Florida Lawn--Renovation and Establishment

UF/IFAS Publications

• Caring for Flooded Lawns (PDF)
• Lawn Problems: Dead or Dying Areas in the Lawn (PDF)
• Low Temperature Damage to Turf
• Promoting Turf Recovery After a Hurricane
• Re-establish an Old, Declining Lawn (PDF)
• Renovation of Turf Areas

Other Sites

• Lawn Renovation--Clemson Extension
• Lawn Renovation: A Master Gardener How-to Paper--West Virginia University Extension Service (PDF)
• Lawn Renovation and Establishment--Cornell Gardening Resources
• Lawn Repair and Renovation--University of Illinois Extension
• Renovation the Home Lawn--Colorado State University Extension