DIY home guide: Summer
How to protect the value of your property, cut energy costs, avoid costly repairs, and spiff up your surroundings all summer.
Feed your lawn, southern edition
Cost: $20 for a bag of fertilizer that covers 5,000 square feet
Live in the warmer half of the U.S.? Fertilize your lawn in summer, the peak growing period. Northerners should wait until fall, says Susan Littlefield, horticultural editor at the National Gardening Association.
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Last updated January 28 2011: 5:22 PM ET
