If your over-seeding or doing a reno, now is the time to plan your watering. You need to water it 3-4 times a day, so you should either have irrigation, or plan on some type of battery powered hose end timer. So if your truly watering by hand, you have to realize thats difficult to do. Also don't di...

Just be aware, a lot of landscapers are using the same equipment we can rent ourselves. Thats probably why so many of us end up doing it ourselves. I wouldn't be scared off by the machine if its the right model, there are plenty of Youtube videos that give you an idea of how to use it. If you watch ...

A lot of people on here aren't crazy about disturbing the lawn before you reno or over-seed. If you have POA-Annua or POA-Triv problems you could be bringing the weed seeds to the surface and giving them a head start. So your not going to get a lot suggestions to disturb the soil twice. Instead of t...

I have a patch of disease popping up and the lawn looked like it needed water, so I set the timer to water this morning. I wake up check the phone, and weather underground was predicting 0.75". I cursed myself for not checking the weather and watering the night before a day that was going to be so m...

I saw that, Im not sure how closely they are holding that. Two guys who I told about BSF at work split a pallet two days after I told them about it. They had been feeding their 10k++ lawns with Milo at $20 a bag. What they did was bring two trucks up and buy a pallet's worth. I can fit about 25 bags...

I don’t think I ever thanked you, but this spring during the COVID lock down I installed 1’ poly pipe and fed it with my hose bib. The poly pipe was buried in my mulch bed and under my patio pavers, it waters 1,500sf. One zone runs 4 heads, the other 3 heads. It takes me 2hrs to put down 1/2“. The l...

I kind of had to decide this a few weeks ago.... Is the he’ll strip in the shade, or direct sun? If in the full sun, the poA-a will probably be the first to show signs of heat stress, then you can just pull it. Are you planning on reseeding the area in the fall? Not sure if the tenacity might stick ...

Not a drop of rain in S.E. Mass since early May. I debated skipping my last two BSF apps end of June and beginning of July, but with no real rainfall and humid 80deg weather, it was probably for the best. I also skipped on applying tenacity on the POA-A, that was probably also the right call. Ill ju...

They do mention CEASE, the smallest size they sell it by is by the gallon, that might work next year, but I wouldn’t want to buy a gallon for Aug/Sept.

I’m going to check a few local stores or just stretch the last bottle as long as I can.

Im down to one bottle of Serrenade and started hunting around for one, I found this on the 7 Spring Farms website.... *Serenade Quarts have been discontinued by the manufacturer. Please consider CEASE as an alternative." Since this stuff is alive, and I only have about 2k to spray, I will never use ...

That actually makes sense as in previous years, I was pulling huge clumps of POA-A out of the problem areas. Last summer I really stretched the watering and toasted my KBG, but the POA-A really got hit hard, but I noticed as soon as September came around the POA-A started coming back from dead looki...

I am having an odd year this year in my KBG lawn. Last year I put a Promadime pre-m down in August and late Sept. I also put down a pre-m for crab grass in April. In spring I got tons of KBG seedheads. More than I ever have, it made it hard to really spot the POA-Annua, but pulled a ton of it out wh...

Thanks for all the replies and bringing me to my senses, I will hold off on the BSF (Milo) until late August when it’s time to wake things up. The icing on the cake is that I noticed what I thought were KBG seed heads browning was actually my old friend Poa-Annua. I thought I pulled most of it this ...

My lawn looks Ok despite the high temps and lack of rain. My irrigation seems to be doing its job, but right about this time I start doubting my fertilizer plan. I usually I drop BSF (Milo) at 1/2 bag rate very two weeks from May 1st to July 1st, on the last app in July I'll add SOP so i get 3 SOP a...

Im just curious how often everyone is applying their Serenade when using it as a preventive measure? For my KBG lawn; I usually start with 2oz/1K in May every other week and bump it up to 4oz/1k in June. I usually cut the lawn the night before I water, then apply Serenade the next day when its dried...

I had a little accidental dormancy practice last year with my KBG lawn. I had a bad POA Annua problem, and the POA-A seemed to make it through the summers and tenacity. So last year I had the bright idea on my 2 year old lawn to stretch the watering to 1” once a week because I assumed the KBG would ...

I realize WBG CCO has instructions for using it with a hose end sprayer, but no matter how safe a product seems, I would never spray an herbicide with the equivalent of a fire hose. People unsure of how to apply herbicides should go about it carefully and almost be scared to get it wrong. Using a ho...

[quote=schreibdave post_id=341121 time=1592440934 user_id=408] Thanks. I will water tonight and try to spray in the morning. We are having a historic dry spell here and my irrigation system is going every night.[/quote] Is there a reason your watering so much? Usually the best practice is deep and I...

I got a lot of KBG Seed stalks this year. I decided I didn't want to cut below 2" to remove them with summer heat coming soon, and now I noticed they are turning brown and dying off. I'm just not sure if its fungus causing them to go brown or just what the KBG does to transition to regular growth? I...

I totally agree that it’s not a decision between a professionally installed system and dragging house. I used to have rubber hose run along my mulch bed and then I would connect a few Gardena sprinklers. The whole system worked OK and was run from a battery powered hose end timer. This year I got si...