Thanks for the reply.
I’m going to go ahead and give it a shot. I just didn’t want to waste the effort if it was going to be a total waste of time.
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- January 31st, 2021, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Will this survive or waste of time/energy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 364
- January 31st, 2021, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Will this survive or waste of time/energy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 364
Re: Will this survive or waste of time/energy?
Sorry I should have been more clear. It will be on the soil in its intended spot.
- January 30th, 2021, 3:27 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Will this survive or waste of time/energy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 364
Will this survive or waste of time/energy?
Hello. We're getting some work done in our backyard and will be tearing up about 200 sqft of our St. Augustine lawn. I've been plugging another area in our front yard with St. Augustine to let it slowly take over. If I were to rent a sod cutter and transplant the St. Augustine from the backyard to t...
- February 19th, 2020, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: St augustine, kill paspalum and fescue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 460
St augustine, kill paspalum and fescue
Hi all. Last year I threw some st augustine plugs into my front yard wanting to see how well they’d do. The front yard is a mix of fescue and paspalum (that grows everywhere in our area like a weed). The st augustine plugs did well but didn’t spread much as I hoped they would. The paspalum was just ...
- June 24th, 2019, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Question on cat food.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 455
Re: Question on cat food.
Have you considered how much cat poo you'll add to the mictoherd when all those curious cats come to the yard for a snack?? 🤣🤣 My microherd dines on the highest quality cat and opossum poop made from old dog food. Here's a grainy pic from a couple of weeks ago... never seen a cat and opossum chilli...
- June 20th, 2019, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Garden lizards!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 445
Garden lizards!
Hello. We have a couple smallish piles of concrete rubble from a front yard reno. Garden lizards quickly moved in and claimed it as home. My kids like watching them, my dogs like chasing them, I like them, they're cool. What I don't like is the piles of concrete that I was planning on getting rid of...
- June 17th, 2019, 11:08 am
- Forum: Irrigation
- Topic: Drip Irrigation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 546
Re: Drip Irrigation
A cheaper route would be to use a $25 "dig" brand kit from home Depot that attaches to your faucet and seems to have very postive reviews. The only thing you would need to add is a timer I have one of those $25 Dig kits in our raised vegetable beds. Pretty straight forward to set up, almost plug n'...
- June 17th, 2019, 10:57 am
- Forum: Irrigation
- Topic: Drip Irrigation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 546
Re: Drip Irrigation
My landscaper said the 1/4 lines can be fairly Long. On my case I have two limes that will be 8-10 feet long but everything else will be 5 feet or less. With the slow flow rates There are table out there to estimate total system length via the main Netafim 1/2 inch line and all the lines that come ...
- June 11th, 2019, 2:25 pm
- Forum: Irrigation
- Topic: Drip Irrigation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 546
Re: Drip Irrigation
What’s usually the max length 1/4 inch tubing off of the main line? Trying to figure out my system design and how many Ts I may need. Following along for advice. Just decided over the weekend I'd like to convert an area to drip irrigation and was wondering the same thing. Thinking if I could run 1/...
- May 23rd, 2019, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Varying Organic Fertilizers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2384
Re: Varying Organic Fertilizers
Reading the last few posts, and please correct me if I'm wrong, it seems like Masbustelo was asking if Milorganite was considered "fertilizer" not necessarily if it was "organic." I enjoy threads and discussions like these as a relative newcomer to using organics as fertilizer. I just started last s...
- May 22nd, 2019, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Varying Organic Fertilizers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2384
Re: Varying Organic Fertilizers
Compost is a depleted product made from formerly good sources of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. The compost I used had enough urea content that it burnt the turf here and there. I've used it for years in my garden with great results. Growing grass is just another type of gardening....
- May 9th, 2019, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: St. Augustine or Platinum Paspalum?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 939
Re: St. Augustine or Platinum Paspalum?
Yeah really simple for a novice like myself. Height of cut is at the highest my mower will go ~3.75" year round and just a regular string trimmer for edging. Last summer I was mowing twice a week for both the St. Augustine and paspalum lol. But I was also trying to fill in some areas so I was pushin...
- May 9th, 2019, 11:23 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Questionable dry dog food on lawn
- Replies: 7
- Views: 618
Re: Questionable dry dog food on lawn
Sorry if I wasn't clear. My concern was mainly if it would be wise to toss it on the lawn if it was possibly contaminated with something like salmonella. I wasn't sure if it would be an issue if the area wasn't used for edibles and didn't get a lot of foot traffic from the dogs. I don't know a lot ...
- May 9th, 2019, 11:20 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: St. Augustine or Platinum Paspalum?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 939
Re: St. Augustine or Platinum Paspalum?
While I am far from an expert, I do happen to have both St. Augustine (floratam) in my backyard and a random variety of paspalum in the front yard. I love how the paspalum does great in the summer without a ton of water and minimal care but the one or two days of frost we have during winter sends it...
- May 1st, 2019, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Shredded Paper as OM
- Replies: 6
- Views: 728
Re: Shredded Paper as OM
About 3 weeks ago I had the same idea and did a test area using shredded bills/junk mail (mainly to reduce our paper waste). So far it's still totally recognizeable as shredded computer paper. This is on a mulch mowed and organically fed lawn (coffee grounds, alfalfa pellets, milorganite, dog poop a...
- April 23rd, 2019, 11:14 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Questionable dry dog food on lawn
- Replies: 7
- Views: 618
Re: Questionable dry dog food on lawn
I'm pretty sure somebody has posted about using dry dog food as lawn fertilizer before. I think it was DC Hall. Personally I would; Plan on watering right afterwards to help break it down. Sorry if I wasn't clear. My concern was mainly if it would be wise to toss it on the lawn if it was possibly c...
- April 22nd, 2019, 12:58 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Questionable dry dog food on lawn
- Replies: 7
- Views: 618
Questionable dry dog food on lawn
Long story short, we have a couple of bags of dry dog food that we got off Amazon. Our dogs have been eating the same food for 5+ years but this was the first time buying online. After eating it they both started vomiting and I saw on the Amazon reviews that one customer from a few days ago reported...
- April 22nd, 2019, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Working around tight mowing schedule.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 206
Re: Working around tight mowing schedule.
You could involve your 4 year old with the yard work, it gets them outside and occupies them while you do your thing. My two kids, now 3 and 5, have been outside while I work in the yard since they were toddlers. My 5 year old is actually really helpful with easier tasks. He even helped us transplan...
- April 11th, 2019, 12:05 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Looking for suggestions to my lawn maintenance schedule
- Replies: 11
- Views: 834
Re: Looking for suggestions to my lawn maintenance schedule
Give BLSC a chance this spring before you core aerate unless you have construction type compaction. +1 Before I found this site last year I was planning on plugging my yard. I could barely get a shovel in 1/2" into the ground without jumping on it. Thanks to the info on this forum and after changin...
- April 1st, 2019, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Vinyl raised garden beds, DIY?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 442
Re: Vinyl raised garden beds, DIY?
Finally set the beds up this weekend. We bought three 2-packs but decided we liked the height of them stacked two high. If anyone stumbles upon this thread and wonders how the Costco 2-pack stacks (I did before seeing them first hand) it's actually pretty well done. The corner posts are about 1" tal...