The Yard Doctor

About The Yard Doctor

August humidity on the banks can take a lawn from green to blotched inside a single week. The Yard Doctor reads a yard before touching it — where the water sits, where the sand runs dry, whether the mowing height is working with the roots or against them — and treats from there: feeding, weed control, aeration to open packed ground, overseeding into the thin places, and mowing and edging on a rhythm the grass can actually keep. Coastal lawns fail in particular ways, and each way has its own answer. There is no better sight than a fading patch coming back in thick and even. Nags Head yards are worth diagnosing rather than guessing at.