Hi all, A fresh inch of wet snow on the ground this morning has me looking to spring (it should be gone by 5 p.m.). I have been using Halts granular w/o fertilizer (pendimethalin) for at least the past five or six years, in the Spring and again in the Fall. Doing some reading on this forum about pre...

andy10917 wrote: ↑

November 10th, 2019, 9:20 pm

It stops growing when it stops growing. There are no "but what about this" angles.

Slow down there, Andy .... I'm getting a pencil.

Stuck a fork in it. Mulch-mowed, no top growth anywhere since last mowing. Ran the mower out of gas on the last of the leaves and took that as a sign. Put down urea, took the dog to the park, cracked a beer and am waiting for the forecasted rain/snow mix to hit this afternoon. Might have a second be...

Mowed and mulched on Sunday. Some but not much growth over eight days from when I mowed last, it is really slowed down. Been a very wet year here, and October was no different. This year was already pace to be one of the wettest in recorded history before October. Our air temps this fall have been w...

The "Fall Nitrogen Regimens" thread has been updated for 2019. Small changes were made to the take learnings from questions in previous years and embed them into the first posting in the thread, so that you don't have to read all 56 pages of material. Thank you for updating the original post in thi...

Idk..I just read the articles here and applied the basics and voila! Nice lawn. lol really it seems to be that simple to me. Proper mowing, watering and fertilizing. Most have KBG, feed it ~6-8lbs N/M per year including winterizer, use as much organic sources, pre M at the start of the year (if not...

I'm not seeing anything in that 3rd pic that warrants concern, let alone that screams Poa trivialis . Is the light shading by chance from KBG going to seed? Or is it specifically grass blades that are lighter in color, devoid of seed heads or stalks? I ask because KBG looks quite bad and lighter in...

This will be interesting in my area. Still a few spots in the lawn covered with snow... hopefully that melts today and tomorrow. Tomorrow we're supposed to get .25" of rain, then Saturday night more rain (predicted at 1") turning into 4-8" of snow. I'm looking at Saturday afternoon to drop the wint...

Yep. East of St. Paul. We were supposed to have flurries last Thursday evening into Friday and ended up with 2.5 inches and air temps below 30 since. As I had mowed the Thursday before and had clippings, I intended to mow again on the weekend. Still have cover and air temps are predicyed to get into...

Still slowly growing here in Mn. I mulched up leaves yesterday and was still cutting grass. 5 days between mows. Guessing I am north of you (I am just east of St. Paul). I mowed on Thursday the 1st and took .5" off for the most part. Some spots with less, but no spots were without clippings. If wea...

In the Pause (eastern 'burb of the Twin Cities, MN, nearly WI). First frost came just over a week early on Sept. 29th (usually Oct. 6th) and first freeze was Oct. 12th. Cut on Thursday, Nov. 1st, and took .5" off for the most part. Some spots with less, but no spots were without clippings. UREA is p...

We were about a week earlier than average, hitting 30 on the 10th with mixed 20's and 30's since then. A few hundred miles up the Mississippi from you in the eastern Twin Cities, we were also just over a week early for first frost (average first frost date is Oct. 6th, hit for me September 29th). A...

First time doing the aggressive program. Results are so so, which I'm sure the unusual wet September/October had something to do with it. With 30 degrees and snow flurries this morning, I'm done until the final drop. As much rain as we have had in September and into October (hit the monthly average...

To clarify further, we do have a large landscape bed in the center of the cul de sac and they typically deposit the snow in it. Similar to our cul-de-sac, though the bottom of ours is open (no house or driveway), so that will often double as a place to put snow when it gets to be a lot of snow. We ...

blue demp wrote: ↑

September 17th, 2018, 3:18 pm

My neighbors must hate me right about now

Minnesota represents!

edenl01 wrote: ↑

August 23rd, 2018, 5:57 pm

Full rate Milo and 6” of rain

Do ball players ever walk out of the corn?

Two weeks after you're dead. Never...? lol I'll help you out. You're uninitiated here because you're new. General ATY advice is not to do dethatching because it disturbs the soil and brings up weed seeds. Look up BLSC and Kelp help, mulch mow always, use organic ferts like Milo, Soybean Meal, alfal...

merrimack wrote: ↑

June 12th, 2018, 7:15 pm

The Milorganite Twitter account implied this week that they are having trouble keeping up with demand:

Today I learned ... Milorganite has a twitter account.

$6 a bag last week at Fleet Farm (or Farm Fleet, whichever one of those is near me ... I can't keep them straight).

Nothing yet here. Put urea down in the pause and it had the desired effect. We had a mid-April blizzard and most snow on record for that month, so things started out very slow here, but our lawn greened up ahead of others. Meant to write after top growth ended in the fall instead of "the pause" ......

Nothing yet here. Put urea down in the pause and it had the desired effect. We had a mid-April blizzard and most snow on record for that month, so things started out very slow here, but our lawn greened up ahead of others.