Love your lawn. Rake up the excess leaves you didn’t get around to last fall. Too many can suffocate your grass and stop it from growing. "Pull up weeds, and remove foilage from the lawn, shrubs and any plants," says Neal Julien, landscaping expert with Neal Works Landscaping in Capitol Heights, Maryland. Pull up dead flowers, and replace them with a low-maintenance variety such as pansies, begonias or mums.
