| Month | Activities |
| April | Clean-up, rake, investigate winter damage |
| May | Aerate and top-dress and overseed if needed, pull dandelions and other weeds, apply corn gluten meal, pre-emergent for crabgrass, fertilizer, wait 30 days if overseeding |
| June | Pull dandelions and other weeds, monitor grubs |
| July | Monitor grubs, monitor chinch bugs |
| August | Apply nematodes if necessary for grubs. Late in the month, overseed with drought-resistant grass — perennial ryegrass or red fescue |
| September | Overseed early in the month, monitor and pull weeds |
| October | Buy fertilizer |
| November | Apply late-season fertilizer |
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