Tools
Free utilities that take the guesswork out of lawn care: get your exact square footage from satellite, identify the weeds you're seeing and what controls them, and calculate how much sand or topdressing to apply. No account required.
Sand & Topdress Calculator
Don't know it? Use the Measure Your Lawn tool ↓
Pro move: for needs beyond buying bags, buying bulk "coarse washed sand" (USGA spec) from a landscape yard is a fraction of the cost per ton. And despite what the lawn forums say: sand + water ≠ concrete :\
Weed Scout
Measure Your Lawn
Trace your lawn on a satellite map to get square footage instantly: drop pins around an area, finish the zone, then start the next one. Signed in, you can save measured zones straight to My Lawn.
How to measure
- Search your address to center the map on your house.
- Click each corner of an area to drop pins around it.
- More than one patch? Hit Add shape and trace another. They total together.
- Hit Finish zone to name & seal them as one zone.
Click the map to drop your first pin
Got your total? Send it to the Sand & Topdress Calculator above ↑