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- January 9th, 2021, 4:05 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Soil Temps
- Replies: 5
- Views: 488
Re: Soil Temps
I should start taking my soil's temperature. I certainly have plenty of meat thermometers. Science keeps finding microbes which thrive at extreme temperatures, so I would be surprised if the soil did not have some of those. Then the question becomes, are they of any benefit to the plants or the soil...
- January 8th, 2021, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Help Identifying Grass
- Replies: 8
- Views: 803
Re: Help Identifying Grass
Also would you mind redoing your location in your profile to elaborate on where SF Valley is? Is it San Fernando Valley in the LA area? I have no idea.
- January 8th, 2021, 3:59 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Should I mow high or low when mulching leaves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 813
Re: Should I mow high or low when mulching leaves?
ken-n-nancy, if the leaves are as big as your hand, then yes. When the leaves are the size of your fingernail, that doesn't work. Live oak leaves are not fragile enough to be chopped unless they are held down/captured between something solid and the moving blade. Tall grass is not solid enough to ho...
- January 8th, 2021, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Greetings, everyone! Terrible problem with weeds in my yard. Advice Please?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 996
Re: Greetings, everyone! Terrible problem with weeds in my yard. Advice Please?
Based on what you have said, I'm going to assume you are new at this. You're new at lawn care, new to Texas, and/or new to bermuda, but you're new enough that I'm going to give you the bermuda basics. Water deeply and infrequently. Deep means 1 full inch, all at one time. If your soil cannot take it...
- January 8th, 2021, 1:56 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: How Is Everyone Doing? (Coronavirus)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1041
Re: How Is Everyone Doing? (Coronavirus)
My wife and I both got it. She never had any symptoms. I had minor diarrhea for 3 days prior to Thanksgiving. T-Day morning I awoke with severe chills. She got on the phone and found a quick-test lab open 40 miles away. We both tested positive. I did not really feel like driving to the lab, but I fe...
- January 8th, 2021, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: My mom
- Replies: 10
- Views: 489
Re: My mom
So very sorry to see this. Best wishes to you, BP.
- January 8th, 2021, 1:40 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: So Who Got What?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 688
Re: So Who Got What?
My daughter has inherited my procrastination, but I'm told to expect a Joule sous vide machine any day now.
- November 5th, 2020, 2:00 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: New Sod Turning Yellow
- Replies: 2
- Views: 178
Re: New Sod Turning Yellow
I did also reply over there. I see you're in San Antonio. Did you get your sod at Milberger's Nursery?
- October 25th, 2020, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Need Help Amending Sandy Soil
- Replies: 7
- Views: 946
Re: Need Help Amending Sandy Soil
Yes I always like to bring a spot of whimsy to my posts. Here are before and after pictures of the back yard of my current house. Before was taken prior to 2014 when I moved in and after was taken a month ago. Before https://i.postimg.cc/YvVKVFKR/House-in-2011.jpg After https://i.postimg.cc/rDD7Sp0r...
- October 22nd, 2020, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lets see some dog pics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 708
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Should I mow high or low when mulching leaves?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 813
Re: Should I mow high or low when mulching leaves?
Start mowing high and if that doesn't work, mow lower. My experience with Live Oak leaves is that you have to mow at near the mower's lowest setting to mulch them. Live Oak leaves are about 3/4 inch long, so at the high setting, there's nothing to grab onto.
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:50 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Winter/Spring Pre/Post Emer Plan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 473
Re: Winter/Spring Pre/Post Emer Plan
It would seem like you missed the window to treat the soil and get rid of the weeds. The way you do that is to receive the new soil, water it daily for a week to sprout any weed seeds there are, spray those weeds with Round Up, continue watering daily for another week, and spray any new weeds with R...
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Newer zoysia lawn mixed with Buffalo grass?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 482
Re: Newer zoysia lawn mixed with Buffalo grass?
It's really hard to tell from those pictures. What is most likely is bermuda invading the zoysia. If you mow the lawn at the mower's highest setting, then you have a chance to minimize the bermuda. Nutgrass is a swamp type plant that thrives only in soggy soil. Technically it is a sedge and not a gr...
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:37 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Need help with my lawn.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 247
Re: Need help with my lawn.
Did you inherit this lawn with the house, or did you install it? Because the last picture tells me you have zero drainage on the property. The soil height should be at the level of the surrounding hardscape, not an inch lower. The mold growing on the soil reinforces that there is no drainage. The so...
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Grass apocalypse- what in the world is going on
- Replies: 1
- Views: 283
Re: Grass apocalypse- what in the world is going on
I've never seen that.
What is your normal watering schedule? How often and for how long do you water?
Have you used any herbicide, insecticide, or fungicide on the lawn recently?
How high/low do you mow?
Have you ever used an organic fertilizer?
What is your normal watering schedule? How often and for how long do you water?
Have you used any herbicide, insecticide, or fungicide on the lawn recently?
How high/low do you mow?
Have you ever used an organic fertilizer?
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:29 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: San Diego, CA - Just had Platinum TE Paspalum installed
- Replies: 74
- Views: 6343
Re: San Diego, CA - Just had Platinum TE Paspalum installed
Awww, shucks! You wasted your first post on the forum to say that?(and big shoutout to Dchall_San_Antonio for all of his great advice)

- October 22nd, 2020, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Georgia Bermuda Grass
- Replies: 13
- Views: 766
Re: Georgia Bermuda Grass
The color of your lawn is the same color of lawns which are overwatered. What is your watering schedule? How often and for how long do you water?
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Getting to know St. Augustine - Fungal issue help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 441
Re: Getting to know St. Augustine - Fungal issue help
Moumz, are you asking me to repeat the reply I posted several months ago, before your question?
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Bermudagrass novice
- Replies: 1
- Views: 240
Re: Bermudagrass novice
Hope you're still watching for replies here. I have a couple questions. You can use a manual reel mower, but scalping will continue. When you say it is scalping under 2 inches, is the entire yard scalping or is it just in a few spots? If it is just in a few spots, then you need to level the surface ...
- September 1st, 2020, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Irrigation
- Topic: Poor man's irrigation system?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1363
Re: Poor man's irrigation system?
One of the things we studied in grad school was the similarities of mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical "spring/mass/damper" systems. Without boring you with the math, what you want is the largest diameter, most rigid pipe you can find. If you can squeeze a piece of pipe with your hands and deform...