Modest to high. I vaguely considered dropping urea on the garden yesterday when we were "supposed" to get 0.5" of rainfall. Surprise, there was a thunderstorm in there that dumped 2" of pouring rain on us in the middle of that as temperatures dramatically rose ten degrees. Grand total rainfall for t...

Technically? Two weeks. If you're VERY VERY SURE, you can do it now. If you're not very, very sure, you can also do it now, but you may find even good grasses turning rather pale.

This is a little off the beaten path here, but I'm thinking Drummond's Willow, at least for the second? The first looks much the same, with slight leaf differences, which could simply be how early it is in the season.

This ain't rocket science (scary fact; I knew a rocket scientist who came to our company from NASA. She was one of the densest, most narcissistic, least flexible people I've had the displeasure to meet). Just a little basic care really does go a very long way.

If you're going to hit it with glyphosate... I usually let the Tenacity do its job and kill it out on its own. But PA isn't CT.

I'd wait. Look for something up to 1" absolute maximum, with 0.25" to 0.75" being optimal.

Wow, thank you so much for the detailed info and all the pics. This is definitely food for thought, as I'm looking at (on average across a few estimates) about $6k for 16 x 5/6' ($372 each, installed, on average), $8k for 6/7' or $10k in 7/8'. Though I did have one guy quote $8k for 8' trees. Bleed...

It's a decided meh. The 0.3" is a killer, the 0.65" aren't great. If you were targeting an inch, you'd target about 20-25 minutes, and that would short the low-end areas. You could fill in with a sprinkler, but that kind of defeats the purpose here. Run times of 45 minutes would solve some problems,...

The white fence is five and a half feet tall or so; I can see over it, but not by a great deal when standing next to it. Today, 2023, growth has slowed; they haven't grown that much in the last five years because I don't feed them much. They now stand about 25 feet tall, interlocked, a solid wall of...

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June of 2024, with excellent care. Let's see if I have photos; I'm sure I do. I photograph everything. Fortunately, this is now and not next week when I'm setting up a new computer and juggling M.2 drives. They don't call them Thuja Green Giant for nothing. I was pushing these, but...yeah. 2009, abo...

I'm not worried at all about the nitrogen source. Ammonium sulfate, urea, organic, whatever you like.

Skip iron sulfate and potassium sulfate until we get the test back and read it.

Managed to cut out a burlapped root system two to three times wider than the width of the branches, did they, to a depth of four inches through the volume? Sure, they did. And totally without shocking them, I'm sure. Mind, trees can be forced harder than others, but no, they certainly didn't take th...

What bound to humate and attached to soil could have stayed put, but that's not going to be a vast amount. But some, sure. Anything that was in soil solution at the time is gone. Urea is a salt; it doesn't bind and washes out very easily--overapplication of urea on grass can be solved by watering it...

I'm not terribly worked up by nitrogen applications, so you can go ahead with May nitrogen apps if you like. Just don't drop iron sulfate until after your soil tests are taken. Say, end of May, beginning of June.

While I was momentarily tempted to...no. Just take the samples normally.

You aren't at the point where you need to worry overmuch about adding too much phosphorus, so I'm fine with the Milorganite. Although personally, for Michigan, I'd apply normally in early May, early August, early September, mid September, and follow up with ammonium sulfate in early October. Otherwi...

Agreed, and that makes the first test date window for 5/21/23. I'd be inclined to wait a bit longer. Fifty pounds of gypsum isn't going to go down easily.

It does depend. If the fertilizer was water-soluble urea, it's most likely gone, although it depends on your undersoil and whatnot. And yes, it went into runoff, street, storm drain, and waterways. Not great. Water-soluble phosphorus, ditto, and that's actually worse (a shot of N in the water isn't ...

Morpheus...what is your current feeding schedule? I know you used to go heavy on organics but I think you have backed off a bit. The part that I struggle with is getting a firm monthly plan in place that I can work towards. I would like to have everything on hand in advance. Since this is the quick...

Epsom salt and potassium sulfate can go the same day as the liming if you want. For high-N fertilizer, I'm content with any fertilizer where the first number is way higher than anything else. So 46-0-0, 27-0-5, 36-2-2, something along those lines. If it looks like 20-0-10, that's fine too. A little ...