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- April 14th, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Soap versus detergent definitions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 136
Soap versus detergent definitions
I'm having a little trouble sorting out what the difference is between soap and detergent. Here's what I think I know, but am ready to be corrected. Soap is made from animal or vegetable fat plus a caustic material like sodium or potassium hydroxide. Scented oils and colors may be added. Detergent i...
- March 29th, 2024, 5:13 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Warning about Internet newsletter lawn advice
- Replies: 2
- Views: 348
Warning about Internet newsletter lawn advice
This is the time of year when the professional gardening writers serve up their lawn growing advice. Since their advice often flies in the face of what we on the lawn forums have come to agree upon, I feel the need to adjust some misstatements I have found. A few weeks ago my news feeds sent me an a...
- March 28th, 2024, 6:18 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: 2024: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1286
Re: 2024: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
I'm sidelined this season with a Valentine's Day accident. I missed the last step going down some stairs and tore my quad tendon. My wife has been doing the lawn work so far. By way of reporting the current state of affairs, we only had a few days of cold weather this year. Spring weeds started in D...
- March 28th, 2024, 6:09 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: water soluble and soil temp
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3246
Re: water soluble and soil temp
As usual I'm late to this, but the ingredients of feather meal, soybean meal, and blood meal create a progressively timed "release" of organic nitrogen. Blood meal is available tomorrow once it is moistened. I should be used sparingly, so that's why it's the smallest amount in the bag. Too much bloo...
- September 18th, 2023, 3:11 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QUATS)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1381
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QUATS)
I've been looking at ways to clean grout in a shower and the idea of quaternary ammonium compounds (QUATS) has come up. Quats seem to be the ingredients in bactericidal and disinfecting soaps, so I'm thinking morph is going to have some information about quats. Certainly anyone with knowledge about ...
- September 15th, 2023, 4:01 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Patchy Emerald Zoysia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2107
Re: Patchy Emerald Zoysia
It has been a full summer now. How do your patchy areas look now?
- September 15th, 2023, 3:59 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Freshly Laid Emerald Zoysia Sod - Problem?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 686
Re: Freshly Laid Emerald Zoysia Sod - Problem?
You've probably already paid them, but they should replace the dead pieces of sod. Also they should have smushed the sod pieces up against each other instead of leaving those huge gaps between them. Also they should not have tilled and added topsoil, but all that is water under the bridge. Overall i...
- August 5th, 2023, 4:00 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: No-see-ums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1346
Re: No-see-ums
I have never tried a good test of this, but I had occasion to be on a crew in a Louisiana swamp for a few days (many years ago). As we drove out the first day I mentioned that I had Avon Skin So Soft to keep bugs away. One guy grabbed it right out of my hand and said, "Will this work for noseeums?" ...
- August 5th, 2023, 3:48 am
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Biochar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 581
Biochar
I've never been as excited about biochar as a lot of my fellow organic gardening cohorts. At best I saw the material as a possible substrate to hold minerals and possible nutrients for future uptake by plants. I just came across an article which suggests something I never considered. The linked arti...
- June 12th, 2023, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Patchy Emerald Zoysia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2107
Re: Patchy Emerald Zoysia
First of all, the yard looks pretty danged good.* Regarding pictures 1 and 3, it often happens that when two massive concrete structures come together like that, the heat retained by the concrete will dry out the soil much more quickly than the rest of the lawn causing the grass to suffer from dryin...
- June 12th, 2023, 5:30 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: renovation advise
- Replies: 1
- Views: 681
Re: renovation advise
When you say, "Very reputable," what does that mean? Some people thing Tru-Green is very reputable. While they can be reputable in certain locations, others are not. I know this because I worked with a guy in a different industry who was a salesman for Tru-Green. I asked him some questions, and he a...
- April 26th, 2023, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Few organic questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1527
Re: Few organic questions
If you visit Tractor Supply you can find pelletized corn products as well as alfalfa products. Their chicken and fish food are practical examples. The pelletized versions will flow better through a spreader than a meal, which tends to absorb humidity and stick to itself. You do pay for the pelletize...
- March 3rd, 2023, 3:59 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Dry Pour Concrete
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2255
Dry Pour Concrete
Has anyone here "poured" a concrete slab using the dry pour method ? In a nutshell, they set the form, fill it with dry ready-mix concrete, screed the top surface round the edges with a normal rounding tool, roll the surface with a dry paint roller to even the surface, mist the surface with water an...
- March 3rd, 2023, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
Re: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
This is not my personal diary, here. Anyone, feel free to comment. We've had an early spring in San Antonio. We just escaped another freeze a few weeks ago, and with higher than normal temps for the past month, stuff is blooming all over town. In the past week I watered NEW grass. Normally the grass...
- February 21st, 2023, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
Re: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
Mowed on Prez-Day and am about to spray for weeds? Seriously?! We're running a full month ahead of schedule here with temps in the 80s. What I mowed was 99.9% the dormant straw, but there are signs of life coming up. The weeds are mostly winter rye which we got by disturbing the soil and bringing up...
- February 5th, 2023, 3:22 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Beginner question....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 879
Re: Beginner question....
It looks like the OP might have moved on, but for the casual reader, one problem with the tenacious weeds is they reseed prolifically. You may have killed the plants which were growing, but seeds continue to germinate. Thus you have to repeat the treatment as soon as you see new weed growth and befo...
- February 5th, 2023, 3:14 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Feb 2023 and they're selling bermuda seed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1069
Feb 2023 and they're selling bermuda seed
Walked through Lowe's and Home Depot yesterday and saw bags of bermuda seed for sale. If you want to buy seed now, fine, but keep in mind that spring is not the time to seed bermuda. Wait until the heat of summer, say, June, to put it down. But also, if you think you need more seed now on your dorma...
- January 22nd, 2023, 3:51 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: I Dislike This Phone
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2581
Re: I Dislike This Phone
I've been through a few phone companies. I started with Samsung whatever their first two models were. I don't remember why but I ended my Samsung career with a Note, because it was huge. Everyone laughed at me holding a dinner plate to my face to make a call. Who's laughing now??? By the time the No...
- January 22nd, 2023, 3:32 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Olivia Died
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2360
Re: Olivia Died
I'm just now catching up. I don't want to bring up old memories, but do you have any pictures of her? Maybe some childhood pictures from the proud papa when you bought her?
- January 22nd, 2023, 3:22 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
Re: 2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)
After the 19 degree nights a couple weeks ago, we are as dormant as we could possibly be. Still, the "Autumn" leaves are starting to fall so my wife mulched them into the dead looking canopy to clean things up. The freeze was followed by many days of very low humidity, so we have watered once since ...