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by LadyAnglesey
January 22nd, 2019, 11:58 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Rate Your 2018 Season Results
Replies: 18
Views: 1407

Re: Rate Your 2018 Season Results

Really thrilled with the way my renovation from warm season to cool season went. Smoked it, scalped it, tilled it with peat moss. Seeded it. Then...the monsoons came just after I seeded. I'd repatch and 2 days later -- with absolutely no rain in the forecast -- another monsoon would hit. We got abou...
by LadyAnglesey
January 21st, 2019, 9:51 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: End of season pictures
Replies: 5
Views: 640

Re: End of season pictures

Pretty pleased with it altogether. Some light greenish patches from frost and sleet, but it's a world of difference from the cornucopia salad patch of weeds and bare clay it was last year this time. This is its first Winter after renovating it in Fall 2018. https://i.postimg.cc/B8kstqSK/Bradford-Ear...
by LadyAnglesey
December 4th, 2018, 12:41 am
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

TO be clear, the suggested rate for reno (not overseeding) was 10 lbs / 1000k. I followed that.
by LadyAnglesey
December 4th, 2018, 12:19 am
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Nearly 100 lbs. Should have been 50, but the crazy storms washed out multiple patches, MULTIPLE times. So once the third monsoon hit, I ordered another 50 lb sack. Plus, I decided to seed an area I'd previously decided against. It's about 500 sqft. But I still have about 12 lbs to use for patching c...
by LadyAnglesey
November 13th, 2018, 1:48 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Just went back and re-read earlier posts. So to answer your questions: 1. I bought the humate off Amazon and used most of it, but soon switched to Green County Fert N-EXT products of RGS, Dethatch, Air-8, GreenEffect. It's easier to apply with a hose-end sprayer and the seeds (and later grass) got w...
by LadyAnglesey
November 13th, 2018, 1:28 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Just went back and re-read earlier posts. So to answer your questions: 1. I bought the humate off Amazon and used most of it, but soon switched to Green County Fert N-EXT products of RGS, Dethatch, Air-8, GreenEffect. It's easier to apply with a hose-end sprayer and the seeds (and later grass) got w...
by LadyAnglesey
November 13th, 2018, 10:30 am
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

I promised an update. It's been an interesting renovation, especially given the unusual weather. I had to adjust, adapt, repatch after some washout from the heavy rains, spoon-feed liquid and granular ferts and humates, etc. But it shaped up nicely and came in lovely. It's had 2 mowings down to 4" a...
by LadyAnglesey
August 11th, 2018, 7:30 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Seed Selection
Replies: 20
Views: 6761

Re: Seed Selection

Pulled the trigger and ordered the GCI TTF blend for my front yard and got a small bag of BB ultra on the way (backyard). Can't wait to get seeds down within the next month. I also ordered GCI. Excited to see the results. I plan on seeding Labor Day weekend or the weekend before. I'm just outside C...
by LadyAnglesey
August 11th, 2018, 6:36 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Lime
Replies: 10
Views: 642

Re: Lime

For price, if you're near a Lowes or Menard's, they have 40lb sacks of lime for under $5. I bought 2 bags this past Spring.
by LadyAnglesey
August 11th, 2018, 6:22 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Any thoughts on quickly seeding before a fall pre-emergent?
Replies: 11
Views: 486

Re: Any thoughts on quickly seeding before a fall pre-emergent?

You can use Tenacity now and/or at seeding. It's the one pre-emergent that won't harm seeds. BUT will harm germinating seedlings. Folk have had good luck prohibiting POA with it and it also kills nutsedge.
by LadyAnglesey
August 11th, 2018, 5:29 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

PW405--If you're talking about the Roundup Concentrate Plus in the red-lidded bottle at HD, the additional ingredient is Diquat. Diquat is a dessicant, meaning it dries the leaf where it touches it. From what I understand, diquat is added for visual effect. It makes the leaf brown quickly, making p...
by LadyAnglesey
August 11th, 2018, 4:37 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Thanks for the tips, PW405. I bought some Bonide Turbo Spreader Sticker to add to it for the next round, but I've used this brand to great effect in the past. Also, we've had continuous slow steady rain for nearly 2 days now and it's cooled the temps for now. Two weeks ago, it was 103, right now 76....
by LadyAnglesey
August 10th, 2018, 1:52 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

I used no additional water, rather changed the way and times that I watered. Here's what I did this past Spring And Summer to prepare: 1. Upgraded my old misting sprinkler heads to Hunter rotary heads, which produced fat droplets that decreased evapotranspiration letting me water less frequently. 2....
by LadyAnglesey
August 10th, 2018, 8:08 am
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

We got much more than that. Enough so that my RainMachine smart irrigation controller elected to skip this morning's regular 1/2 inch cycle due to what it calls "water surplus". Luckily, we're not under restrictions, only suggestions, as Plano draws from a different water source than Dallas proper (...
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 11:27 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Yes, we did break a record what with that heat dome that lasted so long. I can't recall the last time we hit 100 in early June. The NOAA that said July was the 11th hottest month on record for the USA as a whole. As for those patches of TTTF that made it through the heat in my yard, I'm truly amazed...
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 9:17 pm
Forum: Lawn Renovations
Topic: 2018 Renovators: Seed Selection Completed?
Replies: 1
Views: 200

Re: 2018 Renovators: Seed Selection Completed?

Chose mine, received the shipment this week. Got it stored indoors in a cool, dry, dark place, awaiting cool temps. Can't wait.
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 9:12 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

Re: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Thanks gardenpants for the encouragement. Everything you said made perfect sense. Last time I did a test patch was in the Spring and the temps were in the 60's, quite a bit cooler and low humidity. And I thought I was nuts then to have added fertilizer to encourage the weeds and grass, but now I don...
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 4:04 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help
Replies: 24
Views: 1255

LadyAnglesey 2018 Renovation Help

Autumn 2018 Full Renovation. The "yard" used to be hubby's joy/job, but he died young 2 summers ago and I was too traumatized to even notice the lawn was failing miserably. I'm woke now. (smile). So, I'm killing off my Bermuda/Orchardgrass/Crabgrass, a small edged section of Asian Jasmine, etc. "law...
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 3:45 pm
Forum: Lawn Renovations
Topic: Roll Call: Class of 2018 Renovations
Replies: 23
Views: 1006

Re: Roll Call: Class of 2018 Renovations

Okay. Sorry. Thanks.
by LadyAnglesey
August 9th, 2018, 1:52 pm
Forum: Lawn Renovations
Topic: Roll Call: Class of 2018 Renovations
Replies: 23
Views: 1006

Re: Roll Call: Class of 2018 Renovations

Autumn 2018 Full Renovation. Killing off my Bermuda/Orchardgrass/Crabgrass, a small edged section of Asian Jasmine, etc. "lawn" in favor of 100% turf type tall fescue. I'm in the North Texas portion of the transition zone. I used a hose end sprayer because I have very large sections with no vegetati...