Day 14... Things are going well. According to the Mrs. she's been living at a crime scene for the last two weeks but these darn kids couldn't keep their shenanigans off of the grass babies so I had to take precautions. The tape is better than creating a snipers perch in one of the upstairs windows....

Tenacity (mesotrione) is considered safe for seeding TTTF and other cool season grasses. I applied Scotts Starter with Tenacity at the same time as seed and things are germinating quite nicely. Some grass might start to turn white but the effect should be temporary. I did some small patches in the b...

Things like that are pretty popular in California where they had years of extreme drought and watering your lawn resulted in fines. They have a great program to help convert grass into more native plantings and drought resistant landscapes but not everyone has the money for that so they just have di...

The breakdown is: 30% Dakota Tall Fescue 30% Montana Tall Fescue 20% Tonto Tall Fescue 10% Krypton Kentucky Bluegrass 10% Frontier Perennial Ryegrass Jonathan Green owns their own seed company and aside from their own products, they sell to wholesalers and sod farms. If you're so inclined, they have...

8 days in... Things seem to be progressing well, I don't really have anything to compare it to but for only 8 days it seems like I've got a pretty decent amount of new grass popping up. I've been keeping everything moist and I'm seeing more and more green each day. :yahoo: https://s26.postimg.cc/t6...

Thanks kev! Thankfully it's not lawn disease, I may have gotten a bit heavy handed with the glyphosate. There was a lot of fescue clumps I tried to get rid of. Now that you mention it, I'm probably going to have some thin areas, it didn't occur to me to seed those heavier... mental note for next tim...

Just bought this house in December and the lawn was super thin with a large dirt patch right in the middle of the front yard. I've been doing what I can, got things looking pretty darn good just with organic fertilizer some pre-emergent and spot spraying weeds plus mowing tall. I had it in my mind I...

TimmyG thanks for the link. OK so the evergreen "of some kind" is just a Boxwood. I'll plan to move them in early spring. I've been doing a lot to the lawn this year and I can't hear the wife one more time say ":club: how much did that cost?" lol So my aim with the bushes was to reuse the junk alrea...

Around Labor Day is a good time for many plants, but "evergreen bushes of some kind" is unlikely to get you committed answers. Either go with general advice, or get to good ID's... I'm more focused on the burning bush and barberry, I threw in the evergreen while I was at it but I'm working on an ID...

I've got 3 burning bushes, 3 evergreen bushes of some kind and 2 barberries I want to transplant. Should I wait till things go totally dormant or is it OK to transplant now? Temps should be mid 70's for the next couple weeks if that matters. If you need any other info just let me know. Thanks!

HoosierDaddy No pressure but... I'm just going to let you know I'm stalking this topic so I can take queues from you on when to start stuff. ha! I'm just going to over seed this year but it's all new to me. ;) Real quick, if I'm over seeding will I be OK without putting down peat or compost? The wif...

If you live in an area with a Meijer store I was surprised to find a couple pallets of Milo in their garden center. The HD by my house has been out for weeks. I never would have thought to check Meijer but there it was. It wasn't on sale the day I was there but it was the same reg. price as all the ...

I think Jonathan Green sells a product now to lower PH in addition to the Magical they sell to raise it, might be worth a look When I was reading up on lowering soil pH I did a lot of reading and also contacted JG to ask about their Mag-i-cal Alkaline product. They took a few days to get a response...

They don't know if turf is on it yet, or whether or not you want to keep that same turf. The recommendation is only based on the fact that the desired ground cover on top of that soil will be turf in the future. A sports field might till the sulfur in and put new sod on top. That's a great point. I...

Hi Bucky. Welcome!

I've seen a couple threads on this, and the question that always pops into my mind is: Has the product changed, or has the analysis method changed? Perhaps the analysis method has changed and give different (hopefully more accurate) details of the same product they've always produced. Maybe someone...

Thanks HLG, the experience of a "local" is really appreciated. The recommendation to add sulfur was one of the first things I started reading up on. I pretty quickly came to the conclusion that trying to lower the pH was pretty useless and decided not to mess with it. The pH came back as 7.5 so it's...

And nobody who cares about soil would have you applying 10 lbs/1000 sq ft for a surface application in a year. This is a pretty old topic but I found the quoted statement striking as this is exactly what the recommendation was when I got my soil test back from the lab my local Soil & Water Conserva...

Most of our significant other know we are a bit OCD with the lawn. We have some milk that is going to go bad since the kids are sick and not drinking it. I told my wife not to throw it away. She was about to ask why, but then said "don't tell me, for the lawn". Priceless. I got caught up in reading...

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March 28th, 2017, 7:42 pm

Fill up the gas tank.

So should I do that before or after mowing???