Monkey grass is pretty low-maintenance when it comes to fertilization. "In average to rich soils, additional fertilizer isn't necessary," Hancock explains. If your soil is on the poorer side, you may ...

Q: The ditch in front of my house is weedy and ugly. I would like to plant some kind of ground cover on the ditch. What plant do you recommend? A: There are many types of ground cover that would work ...

The usual reason to replace one of the lawn grasses with another type of groundcover is because there is too much shade to support a grass variety. Even the most shade-tolerant grass, St. Augustine, ...

Q: Is my pachysandra down for the count after the Christmas freeze? Should I whack it now like monkey grass and see what happens in the spring? It has never looked like this before, and I'm worried. A ...

Q: My monkey grass browns many summers, but it never has done it this badly. What caused it to do this? A: This was an unusually rough summer on monkey grass (also commonly called mondo grass). I had ...