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- July 12th, 2019, 7:46 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Rabbit Den in Yard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 351
Re: Rabbit Den in Yard
If you have dogs and/or cats, keep them away. We have rabbits around most of the time, if they are nesting on your property, it must be hospitable. You could fertilize your lawn with alfalfa pellets...they would love that
- July 12th, 2019, 7:33 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
Just dumped 2.5 bags of beetles. Not sure if I am attracting them from miles away, but I do not see them on my plants and trees, so the trapping will continue.
- July 12th, 2019, 9:30 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
About 1.5 bags of beetles Thursday...so 2.5 Tues, 2 Wed, 1.5 Thurs...will it be 1 bag today?
- July 11th, 2019, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: deboy922's Soil Test Results 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 230
Re: deboy922's Soil Test Results 2019
I emailed my local coop to see what products they have available...I do not yet have costs. Below is the reply. "I have Super U which is 46-0-0 with Agrotain, and I also have Ammonium Sulfate (21-0-0-24s). I have Monomonium Phosphate (11-52-0) and Potash (0-0-60). I also have Pelleted Hi-Cal Lime th...
- July 11th, 2019, 12:18 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
- July 11th, 2019, 11:46 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
Thanks for the confirmation. The lime green color and how it looks in 4" grass compared to alone along the driveway, always had me wondering if it was something else besides crabgrass. And thanks for the advice...it is widespread...I think that I am going to wait until the forsythia bloom to wage th...
- July 11th, 2019, 11:28 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
- July 11th, 2019, 10:39 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
I also think it is crabgrass but wanted some confirmation. I have never done pre-M or fertilized, and the lawn is 23 years old (previously farm ground). Could the bright green be from lack of nitrogen?
- July 11th, 2019, 10:09 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
@TimmyG - Thank you for the feedback and patience. I think these should be better. In postimages.org I did not have "Do not resize my image" selected, so my images were being resized to a lesser resolution. The below should be higher resolution. Thanks again. https://i.postimg.cc/zyDc2FxP/20190709-1...
- July 11th, 2019, 7:42 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
I'm in Northern Illinois and the Japanese Beetles love my grape leaves. I have about 150 feet of trellis. Usually they show up in the hundreds for two weeks or so. This year Ive counted 20, total. We had minus 30 last winter, may be that did them in? You must have sent them to me in north-central I...
- July 10th, 2019, 4:08 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
Is the below better? Worse actually. The URL wrappers just point to https://postimages.org/ rather than the image files. Always test your links when you post. Please tell me that the color in those photos is not true to life. Even yellow nutsedge, which this isn't, isn't that fluorescent lime green...
- July 10th, 2019, 12:23 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
I originally thought possibly nutsedge...but the stem is not triangular when I roll it in my fingers...the stem is basically round or oval...also, when I dug up the roots, they did not have any "nuts".
- July 10th, 2019, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Invasive Grass Identification
You may want to see if you can upload larger (full-size) photos. Thanks for the advice. Is the below better? I am posting from my phone, so I don't see the images well. https://i.postimg.cc/ZRzcvzCj/20190709-183830.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/DwD5FXh9/20190709-183842.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gkvzQ9VP/...
- July 10th, 2019, 9:06 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Invasive Grass Identification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Invasive Grass Identification
I have a suspicion but would appreciate some confirmation. What is this invasive grass? I live in north-central Indiana, and this grass became visible in my yard about 2 weeks ago. It is a brighter lighter green than my turf. Thank you. https://i.postimg.cc/JyKJSg3B/20190709-183830.jpg https://i.pos...
- July 10th, 2019, 8:39 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
I'm seeing next to no beetles in the traps now, and the favorite target plant is seeing almost no activity. I'll stay vigilant, but there is hope that I've wiped out a large portion of the local population. Hoping to do the same here. My 2 acre lot is surrounded by farmland for 1/2+ of a mile in al...
- July 10th, 2019, 8:06 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
Caught 2-1/2 bags of beetles yesterday. 1 trap was completely full and overflowing.
For the last 3 days, I "shake off" the beetles on my 6 fruit trees, that I do not like to spray with Sevin. There were less beetles on them yesterday than the previous 2 days. So hopefully, the traps are helping.
For the last 3 days, I "shake off" the beetles on my 6 fruit trees, that I do not like to spray with Sevin. There were less beetles on them yesterday than the previous 2 days. So hopefully, the traps are helping.
- July 9th, 2019, 2:17 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Re: Japanese Beetle Traps
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I also used sevin on 2 crabapples and a weeping cherry, as they were getting hammered. I like the idea of reducing the sevin usage in conjunction with the traps. Looking forward to seeing some caught beetles when I get home from work...but not looking forward to dum...
- July 9th, 2019, 9:28 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Japanese Beetle Traps
- Replies: 19
- Views: 530
Japanese Beetle Traps
For those of you who use Japanese beetle traps, how do you place them? Do you put them at the far edges/corners of your property (but away from desirable plants/trees)? I live on 2 acres, and placed 3 Spectricide traps on the upwind side edge of my yard. Caught about 1 bag total in a couple of hours...
- July 8th, 2019, 12:37 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: A Cute Little Story
- Replies: 9
- Views: 330
Re: A Cute Little Story
@TimmyG - Thank you. 13 gallons of beetles overnight...whew!
- July 8th, 2019, 10:24 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Anyone Seeing Tons of "Smartweed" This Year?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1610
Re: Anyone Seeing Tons of "Smartweed" This Year?
They are fairly easy to pull, but they are prolific this year. They can even get a little height, as they were crowding out some of my lily-of-the-valley.