Garden: Summer slump comes early for lawns this year

Lawns and other turf in Greater Columbus typically experience a summer slump sometime in late July or August, when the cool-season grasses, which make up most lawns, sharply reduce their growth rate, and their lush green color of spring fades to shades of yellow and gold. This year, the lack of rainfall in the second half of June coupled with more than a week of temperatures in the high 90s, have caused most lawns in Greater Columbus to enter a summer slump several weeks early, just as the calendar signaled...