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Customizing a Home Lawn Care Plan

Continuing Education Hours: Claim 2 hours if you watch the video, read the article, and complete the quiz.

Green healthy lawn

This Plants Plus focuses on how to put together a maintenance plan for home lawns.

You will learn:

  • How to do a site analysis to determine the specific needs of a particular lawn
  • Proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing for Wisconsin lawns and putting these into a seasonal plan
  • How to best manage common lawn weeds in a seasonal plan
  • Options for lawn repair and renovation and how they best fit into a plan
  • Tying all the information together into a custom plan

WATCH: Video

  • Presenter: Bruce Spangenberg, Statewide Horticulture Outreach Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extension
  • Video is ~60 minutes long

READ

Read this detailed article on lawn care and designing a plan for Wisconsin lawns:

QUIZ

Complete this quiz to show us what you’ve learned:

Customize Lawn Care Plan Quiz

REPORT HOURS

Report your continuing education hours in the Online Reporting System.

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