Yep, I've moved into 7b (no surprises there, I've been using that since about 2000 anyway).

Daily; the mower's out from 9 AM through 4 PM daily through the season, but it's a small robot that trims continuously. So technically, that works out to about 7 hours a day, 180 days a year.

I was being a tad flippant about the drain, but for most stuff in your sprayer, it actually wouldn't be a problem if you rinsed it a few times outside with just water, then cleaned it. If you do it outside, I'd probably dilute at least six to one (six extra sprayers full of water to the one of the c...

You're lucky I ducked in. Sodium carbonate is commonly called washing soda, as you noted, and sold in the laundry aisle of the grocery store. It's completely safe to use up to a cup at a time to clean out your sprayer. Dump it down the drain, the only thing that might happen is that your pipes will ...

Yes; keep it damp. The seed pre-germinates immediately (practically instantly in those temperatures) and germinates the first moment it can as temperatures drop. Which will probably happen around the third to fifth night. There's a reason I put seed on heaters that kick temperatures into the low to ...

Thee are late. Or getting there; the weather's going to slide fast. Do it ASAP because, will you, nil you, it still needs a solid sixty to ninety days to grow in before winter.

Some can certainly be a matter of preference. I keep mine at maximum height all year long, but winter? What's a winter any longer? My grass still grows in winter, just extremely slowly. You might be a little cooler in terms of weather than I am, perhaps even with the occasional snowfall on the PA/MD...

As a very general rule, 2,4-D is extremely safe even for very young trees as long as absolutely nothing gets on the leaves. Don't spray to runoff (most people use about five times more than needed). Don't spray on a windy day. And don't get it on the trunk, which can and does absorb chemicals, altho...

That's fine. I actually do combine the BLSC with Prodiamine as well, I just follow behind myself and water it off for ten minutes to assure it's off the grass and down onto the soil.

As soon as you say "water" and "property," the only response should be "get a professional to evaluate this." We can't say much about the pitch of your land or where the water is entering or exiting, nor the laws that cover this in your locale.

Spitballing on the topic doesn't really help.

I can't imagine that would be a problem, hosed off or not. Apparently it can be used to disinfect pruning blades, but it's unknown how effective it is (ten percent bleach water is recommended for that; we know it works). Lysol is mostly water and alcohols, so it'll dissipate fast and that's most of ...

I have ten minutes while I wait for others to get off their rear ends so... Just say no to Impatiens. At least lately in PA. I gave up on them about ten years ago. Even my shadier areas are getting sunnier plants that can take heat blasts. If you must say yes, give them more sun than you think you s...

Still reading. Horrendously busy. Will catch up.

Really, once it's dry it stops absorbing. Redamping will restart the process, and I've taken advantage of a damp evening for that. Once redamping doesn't produce a noticeable scent when you swipe your hand across the grass, it's deactivated. FAS isn't harmful to animals in tiny amounts, so the re-en...

Tenacity isn't labeled for juniper, so use is not at all recommended.

The weirdest part was that during a meeting I was complimented on my dark green shirt (most people I work with know I dye my own fabrics). I was wearing a plum shirt. The orange light from the windows, plus the weird camera interpretation on the laptop, turned it green. I had the interior lights off...

Agreed. That having been said, ten year old dogwoods aren't generally expensive trees, worth sinking a lot of money into, or difficult to replace in MA. I'd be inclined to cut away the damage, see if it recovers, and if it doesn't, replace it. Mine didn't; it got anthracnose. I put a Jane magnolia i...

I got little sympathy from our California team members from the Los Angeles area, either. They just said, "That's our summer."

Yeah, but this is Pennsylvania. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no wildfires, droughts are rare, the weather is temperate, and even hurricanes are almost unheard-of.

Noon was halfway Silent Hill and halfway Fallout 4 from a radioactive storm on Wednesday. It smelled something like a wildfire then segued into a tire fire later.

Fortunately, I work from home and could run the filters on high all day.

Boron and copper are both required for every plant on the planet. Bork it up and you just rendered your soil completely sterile. However, the amounts we recommend aren't easily in the "borkable" range. We're usually targeting 0.5 to 0.7 PPM for boron, 2 PPM or so for copper. Sterility starts around ...