Is it just us, or does anyone else struggle to have a nice, green lawn every year?
It's so frustrating. We paid the money for soil preparation, sod, and a sprinkler system, and still we have a hard time keeping the grass nice. We've had to dig out crab grass and dead parts due to lack of water or cutworms. Here we have the "automatic" sprinkler system, and we still find ourselves dragging a hose around to try to save all these problem areas.
We fertilize four times a year and water according to local recommendations. We're using pesticides to kill the cutworms and just aerated. What else can we do?