Southeast Lawn Care Guide

The Southeast straddles the transition zone, which means one rule doesn’t fit the whole region: coastal Georgia greens up weeks before the Carolina foothills, and your first mow of the year should follow your grass, not the calendar. Bermuda is the full-sun workhorse, Zoysia gives you a dense, low-maintenance lawn, and Centipede handles the acidic clay soils common across the region.

The Southeast’s other defining factor is humidity — it drives fungal diseases like brown patch and dollar spot, so mowing height and watering time of day matter as much as how often you cut.

Lush Lawns Southeast lays out the grass choices, the latitude-aware green-up timing, and the season-by-season care that keeps a humid-climate lawn healthy. Pair it with MowGuide’s Southeast mowing guide for the height chart, then use the book for the full plan.

Inside Southeast Lawn Care Guide:

1. The Southeast and the transition zone: Why your latitude changes your green-up date and grass choice.
2. Choosing your grass: Bermuda, Zoysia, and Centipede — strengths, soils, and mowing heights.
3. Spring green-up and the mowing calendar: When to start mowing and the seasonal schedule from the coast to the foothills.
4. Humidity and lawn disease: Brown patch, dollar spot, and how mowing + watering timing prevent them.
5. Weeds, pests, and fertilization: Pre-emergent timing and a warm-season feeding schedule for the Southeast.