andy10917 wrote: ↑

September 16th, 2019, 8:40 pm

It doesn't matter very much about irrigation with most of the calcitic limes - just make sure the bag doesn't indicate the need for watering.

If the N component is Urea, then try to separate the Lime and fertilizer by two weeks if possible.

Perfect. Thank you.

Update: I finally found some calcitic lime. I ended up getting SoluCal from Amazon. I got strange looks at my local lawn and garden stores when I asked for it...doesn't exactly give me the warm and fuzzies about them. Anyway, I haven't put it down yet. We are in a dry spell, and I don't have irrigat...

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I've been shopping around for calcitic lime, and I can't seem to find a good source locally (Lowe's and Home Depot don't seem to have it...?). I found Mag-I-Cal on Amazon (which I can have shipped for free), but Amazon has no info on the product at all. Is all Mag-I-Cal calcitic, or could I end up w...

First of all, THANK YOU! This is a really fantastic resource! In the cations, Calcium is short, Magnesium is excessive, and Potassium is great. This is good news and bad news - the combined numbers create a pH of 6.3 (which is fine), but the Calcium:Magnesium ratio is around 4:1, which is often wher...

Today I got the results of my first soil test and posted them here for interpretation! At this point, these lab results may as well be in an alien language. Haha. #stilllearning

andy10917 wrote: ↑

June 30th, 2019, 10:54 pm

Disaster Day - got nothing done in the yard after my 130 gallon show-aquarium suddenly failed catastrophically and flooded the Family Room with 130 gallons of water. Now I need to deal with remediation folks to prevent the whole thing from becoming an unlivable situation.

That REALLY sucks!

Hey guys. This is my first soil test, and I've only owned this lawn for about 6 weeks or so. As I've mentioned in a previous post, I can run a mower with the best of them, but I'm trying to have a healthier lawn with fewer weeds than I've kept at previous properties. I'm still learning about weed co...

I took my first ever soil sample and prepped it to send off on Monday. My wife said, "So you're just going to put a bag of dirt in the mail...?" Haha :good: Ha ha... and there is no going back after this. Try putting seed in the mail and having the post office slice it open thinking you're mailing ...

PSU4ME wrote: ↑

June 24th, 2019, 12:08 pm

4” here, don’t mind the triv spots I’m treating

That Triv looks an awful lot like irrigation boxes...

I'm the author of the Triangle Approach for weed control, and I'll explain the theme/intent of it a bit, and then get to why I think you may be getting off-course in your thinking a bit... Thank you for the clarification. I'll take a good look at Weed be Gone and plan to start that (or something eq...

EddieN26 wrote: ↑

June 22nd, 2019, 7:55 pm

jadam318 wrote: ↑

June 22nd, 2019, 7:39 am

All this clover and crab grass looks pretty good when it is freshly mowed.

IMO nothing beats nice evenly mown 30"+ wide striped anything. Looks great

Keeping up with mowing really does help. Thanks!

I took my first ever soil sample and prepped it to send off on Monday. My wife said, "So you're just going to put a bag of dirt in the mail...?" Haha

You're smart to ask the questions you're asking, and I suspect by your posting that you know the answers to many of your questions, but don't like what you know the answers are. To tell the truth, you lost the battle against broadleaf weeds and crabgrass when the Forsythia bloomed. You could still ...

Also, I have a weed control question. I've read up on the triangle approach, and I plan to start that. The problem is, it is now summer. Air temps here are reaching the mid to high 80's pretty much every day (high today is forecast to be 86, for example). My understanding is that most, if not all, h...

All this clover and crab grass looks pretty good when it is freshly mowed.

More pictures for grass ID

Cool. Thanks, Andy. I'll check out that book. I also found a ton of resources on NC State's website using the Google search trick you described. Here is a link to that in case anyone else is in/around North Carolina: https://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/publications/ . They have a page dedicated to each o...

Honestly this site is the best place to start. One thing unique here is there is absolutely no financial interest in the decisions you make from the info provided here. ... Use the google search trick site:ncsu.edu For my area, I read articles put out by Purdue or Michigan State. They are usually p...

Thanks again for the input and the welcomes. I've done some more digging around here and found some links to some really informative articles. My next step is definitely a soil test. I'm still looking for more education, though. So if anyone has suggestions for books, websites, etc. I'd love some re...