Welcome back.

Nice looking painting. I have pretty much no artistic talent, so I can't contribute.

If you can't find urea, can you find ammonium sulfate (21-0-0)? That seems to be more common in Utah than urea. Maybe the same would be true in Montana.

As you can see from the first number, it's about half as strong as urea.

Aether wrote: ↑

June 1st, 2020, 3:58 pm

Mowed and bagged clippings. Sprayed organic fungicide.

Out of curiosity, why bag the clippings? They're good for adding organic matter to your soil.

Morpheuspa has one (or had one, anyway). He used to post about it. If you search for myrtle (that was what he named it) and search by his name in the user name field, you'll find some posts.

And we've had many days with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s, with no frost warnings to speak of.

I agree with Andy. Voles leave surface trails all over the lawn and a few (or in my case this year, dozens of) small holes to their dens.

You're correct that the soil gurus here will only interpret tests from Logan labs. I'm a bit of a hypocrite telling you to get a soil test, because I've never gotten one. But I'm doing things differently from most here. I'm trying to convert my lawn to mostly native grasses, so the requirements are ...

I'd suggest getting a logan labs test (follow the directions in the sticky in the soils forum).

You'll get a full workup. There's more to soil chemistry than applying lime.

WIPool888 wrote: ↑

May 15th, 2020, 12:16 pm

I guess Boron will have to wait one more month. Everywhere is out of stock due to covid-19!

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=Borax&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Welcome. Your best bet would be to read the sticky post on this forum about posting a soil test for interpretation and sending a sample to Logan labs to be interpreted by the experts here. There's no "magic bullet" ingredient that will fix your soil. Also, if I remember correctly, you may be surpris...

andy10917 wrote: ↑

May 12th, 2020, 8:41 pm

These soil tests are much easier to interpret when the member actually attaches the soil test.

Could we try that?

I right clicked the broken image and opened in a new tab and it's there. I'm not sure why it's not displaying inline.

Apple trees are not self pollinating (at least most aren't), so if it's an apple tree, you won't set gruit unless there's a pollinator nearby.

I don't think I'd suggest that approach. Head clippings have a tendency to mat up.

I've got a non elite lawn (I'm going for a lawn that requires minimal water in desert conditions) and I've never done a renovation. But I've been participating in lawn forums for a long time. I think you'll be much happier with an all kbg blend than with a mix of kbg and other greases. If you have a...

It's nice when a company stands behind their product like that.

I bought a 1 gallon Chapin sprayer a couple of weeks ago, but it's low tech-- no battery or motor.

Would you get into a Triathlon if you were very sick? Read back - earlier I stated Don't try funky games like trying to fertilize it back to health. You need to sit back, keep it watered, and have an adult beverage (or 2 !!) until it is FULLY green again. Don't you have to be a little sick to even ...

I moved to Utah in 1993. It's not really unusual to get snow in mid May.

I think it had only snowed in June twice since I've lived here.

At higher elevations, it snows even later than it does here.

With only a few exceptions, commercial beer doesn't have any live yeast in it. And yeast aren't really going to be very helpful in the composting process. The soda only supplies sugar. There's nitrogen in the grass clippings already. The microbes that will turn your grass clippings and cardboard int...

I mowed yesterday (fiskars manual reel mower). Today, I mixed and sprayed 2 gallons of repels all on the part of my lawn with mouse/vole infestation. The ingredient list is putrescent egg solids, garlic, cloves. It smells about the way tired expect, although once it dried, I didn't really notice it....