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- Today, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Spacklerstyle 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 48
Re: Spacklerstyle 2024 Soil Test
I have no strong opinion. Two weeks apart would be great, but if you want to drop them the same day, it's not really going to matter much. If you're using the Milo at that time, you can also slack back with the feeding to about half to two-thirds rate for that point (the Milo contains a lot of phosp...
- Yesterday, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: 2024: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today (Cool Season)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1260
Re: 2024: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today (Cool Season)
Sprayed Tenacity and Round Up on lawn and garden weeds. I may have accidentally slipped up to eight feet over the line but...I'll never tell. Still waiting for my own soil tests, the soil arrived last Wednesday.
- March 16th, 2024, 8:39 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Chris's 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 172
Re: Chris's 2024 Soil Test
Always skip April and don't force the grass. If you fed well last fall, it doesn't need it and it just forces growth you don't want or need to be forcing, particularly on Zoysia. You'll just end up with more thatch to deal with. If you'd rather use Milo, I'm fine with that, just add in an additional...
- March 16th, 2024, 8:35 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Weeping willow question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 30
Re: Weeping willow question
You do want to establish a strong central leader for a willow, yes. So sure, go cut those off. You can prune a willow in late winter, so do that now. I'd also be inclined to cut the one at 1 PM (on the lowest photo) off as well, to establish the central branch as, unquestionably, the leader. But I m...
- March 16th, 2024, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: 71GTO 2024 soil test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 64
Re: 71GTO 2024 soil test
If that were literally the last "organic" on the planet, I might be fine with it. It isn't, so I'm not. Those are slow release synthetics with some organics added. I'm not going to say "avoid, avoid, avoid" because they have their place, it's just not as an organic.
- March 16th, 2024, 1:37 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Spacklerstyle 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 48
Re: Spacklerstyle 2024 Soil Test
Hello, calcium soil. From last year, your OM is doing exactly what I expect--not that much. It takes a while for the stuff to work down, so continue onward with applying OM. And yes, there's a distinct front/back difference, which is fairly normal for a slope. We can fix that. Try to apply things wh...
- March 15th, 2024, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Early treatment for Winter weeds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 78
Re: Early treatment for Winter weeds
"Before they seed" might be "next week" at this rate. My lawn is already greening up and starting to grow, which is a record.
- March 15th, 2024, 8:00 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: New cool season turfgrass species: "TTRF"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 104
Re: New cool season turfgrass species: "TTRF"
I skipped it, mostly because my supervisor left and I kind of got dumped with half the workload. And I took a portraiture class. Then I got promoted. It turned out to be a busy fall and winter. There are entire subsections of the lawn that are not doing as well as I might hope, but I'm still torn be...
- March 15th, 2024, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: R2k 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 1
- Views: 44
Re: R2k 2024 Soil Test
I'm mildly surprised elemental sulfur worked that well, but you really didn't have far to go. I've see recommendations on another forum to add it to calcium pit soils with a pH of 8.2 and just shake my head. Good luck with that, but the same person recommends tossing aluminum sulfate around wholesal...
- March 15th, 2024, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: New cool season turfgrass species: "TTRF"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 104
Re: New cool season turfgrass species: "TTRF"
Kinda ditto, and I'm unsure if this is a crossbreed or genetic insert. I'm trying genemod flowers this summer and I have modest hopes for them. If they work, wonderful.
- March 14th, 2024, 10:25 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Early treatment for Winter weeds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 78
Re: Early treatment for Winter weeds
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yes, but the herbicide will take noticeably longer to work in cooler temperatures. I've already sprayed some in my lawn and gardens, but I'm not really expecting them to die until April.
Long answer: yes, but the herbicide will take noticeably longer to work in cooler temperatures. I've already sprayed some in my lawn and gardens, but I'm not really expecting them to die until April.
- March 13th, 2024, 11:08 am
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: 71GTO 2024 soil test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 64
Re: 71GTO 2024 soil test
I have fifteen minutes until my next meeting and I'm burned out. Congratulations, that means you win. :-) I don't have any major issues with this soil. Phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium are good. Sulfur's fine. I'd be OK with any organic feeding you wanted as Ocean Gro is kind of high in phosphorus...
- March 9th, 2024, 9:53 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Chris's 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 172
Re: Chris's 2024 Soil Test
I'm late this year and had to work today to recert another system. It's been hectic. Sorry. I always read soil tests like they're your first (I do the same with mine; literally, what would I do if I were seeing this soil for the first time?) In your case, the answer is, "Develop a slight migraine an...
- March 9th, 2024, 9:45 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Clemsonfan Winter 2024 Soil Test
- Replies: 1
- Views: 44
Re: Clemsonfan Winter 2024 Soil Test
We really only read Logan Labs soil tests (the reason is that we can't familiarize ourselves with every soil tests' accuracy, which is generally not that great, measurements, and range of recommendations terribly easily). But I don't mind taking a very general stab at it, with the realization that I...
- February 20th, 2024, 9:11 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Wire-Free Robotic Mowers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 427
Re: Wire-Free Robotic Mowers
Oh, they're not perfect, far from it. I'm not a personal fan of my Landroid, actually, and currently give it 2 1/2 stars. It strongly dislikes major issues like...smaller areas of thick grass, tiny bumps in the lawn. Corners. Typical for Germany, there's a German kit to add to the wheels that gives ...
- February 19th, 2024, 3:59 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Wire-Free Robotic Mowers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 427
Re: Wire-Free Robotic Mowers
They don't pattern predictably and even the wired ones have to be watched a bit (I work from home so not a problem). I've heard a bit of this and that about the GPS ones, some very good. Some not so good. They tend to have specific drop points where they seem to get lost and the patterning software ...
- February 5th, 2024, 11:48 am
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: 2023 Soil Test Interpretation Queue
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10020
Re: 2023 Soil Test Interpretation Queue
I'm awake, I'm awake. Assuming I don't go back into torpor again, that is.
Heads-up, though, my supervisor quit and I got promoted again, I'm now running the entire library and then some, so I have even less time than I did last year. Be ye forewarned.
Heads-up, though, my supervisor quit and I got promoted again, I'm now running the entire library and then some, so I have even less time than I did last year. Be ye forewarned.
- February 5th, 2024, 11:46 am
- Forum: Flowers & Annuals
- Topic: Firefly Petunia
- Replies: 0
- Views: 468
Firefly Petunia
I admit it, this one got me. They've inserted glowing mushroom genes into petunias to create the Firefly petunia that glows in the dark. https://light.bio/ I've ordered two for the season. At $84 for two, that wasn't exactly cheap. Updates to follow. Sadly, reproduction at home is illegal, so it wou...
- December 30th, 2023, 10:00 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: TTTF Fertilizer & Pre Emergent Schedule
- Replies: 3
- Views: 679
Re: TTTF Fertilizer & Pre Emergent Schedule
Yeah, sounds about right. With highs around sixty, it's just about flawless for grass. It'll want a feed about every six weeks or so at that temperature, assuming perfect watering (with the atmospheric river I hear you guys are getting, that should be relatively true). Most of the people I work with...
- December 30th, 2023, 9:55 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Christmas Goodies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1368
Re: Christmas Goodies
Same. Santa actually delivered a large number of blank canvases and new paintbrushes, mostly.