A healthy colony of moss in your lawn means too much shade; acidic, compacted, or wet soil; or too little fertilizer. For very shady areas, reseed with shade-tolerant grasses such as creeping red ...

When your lawn needs some extra TLC, opt for a soil plug aerator to return nutrients to the soil. Plug, or core, aerators are the way to go if your soil is particularly compacted. Signs to look ...

Areas of the lawn that get heavy traffic, such as play areas often become very compacted which can cause problems with drainage, weeds and moss. Improve by pushing a garden fork into the ground as ...

Instead of poking spikes into your lawn, you can use a slice aerator to cut through the compacted soil and thatch. "My favorite version of a slicing aerator is actually a slicing seeder ...