Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Fine-tune your mowing practices to maintain a lush and well-manicured yard. Mowing may be time consuming but is a critical part of maintaining a vigorous lawn. Healthy, well-managed grass not only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a woman mowing lawn with a red lawn mower - AndrWater/Shutterstock At a certain point, we all get into our own little groove when ...

Striping is an optical illusion: The color differences you see comes from grass blades bending in opposite directions, affecting how light reflects off their surfaces. Plan out your stripes: Mow in ...