Gryd! Glad to hear that you're doing a renovation! I've always enjoyed reading about your renovations! How much Bewitched do you need? I have some left from our front yard renovation in 2018 and haven't yet pulled the trigger on renovating the last 1500sqft of our lawn that would benefit from renov...

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August 10th, 2020, 8:35 pm

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG !!!!

Hey Andy! Thanks for the warm response!

Here’s the area I’m renovating.

Hi Guys,

Last year I renovated some sections in back. It wasn’t my best work so now I’m renovating the entire back and side yardS while I still can.


I’m going with a blend of Mazama, Bewitched and Zinfandel. I could use more Bewitched if anyone has a reasonable source.

Greg

I’m back for one last renovation in my backyard. It’s about 6,000 square feet. I killed it and I’m in the process of scalping it. I’ll start a simple thread for my renovation.

Greg

Greg that's coming in nicely. Good looking property too. Hey, I'd love to see a pic of the front reno from back in 2014 when I did mine as well. Tom Hi Tom, Sorry for the late reply. Below is a very recent pic of my 2014 KBG Renovation. Prosperity, Moonlight SLT, Midnight, Blue Velvet and 10% Bewit...

I have a question. Grass seems to be coming in fine but I’m having trouble accurately identifying my seedlings as Kentucky Bluegrass. I only used Bluegrass and I double checked with my hydroseeder and no other grass species was used. Still, when looking at a blade under a magnifying glass it looks a...

Thank you Tom and HLG!

I figure it’s time for an update. My seed germinated easily and I never watered more than twice a day. The hydroseeding mulch really keeps the seed moist. Coverage appears to be just right. No missed spots but also no areas where too much seed was used. Thus far I’m pleased with the results. It was ...

https://i.postimg.cc/zLj8Zw9w/D27194-E8-1100-4033-AC20-56390-B1-A1-FFB.jpg Thanks for providing the update. Sorry to hear of your troubles, but glad you've persisted with backup plans. Hopefully you get a dry stretch with no downpours! I really like the nice curved edge between the lawn and the woo...

Time for a long overdue update. I had my property regraded in the back and also had topsoil, that washed away due to erosion, replaced. I hired a landscaper to bring in topsoil and address the flooding issues. After the landscaper finished I began seeding one area a day until a huge storm wiped me o...

Mid-July Update: I pulled the RU trigger on Monday. I sprayed the remaining TTTF/KBG on my property. It will be replaced (for the most part) with 100% KBG. Equally as important, I had several diseased Spruce removed yesterday. Those areas will now get much more sun making a healthy, thick KBG Stand ...

Ultimately, whether the KBG or FF is able to survive in your shadiest areas is going to depend upon how much light that grass receives. In my shadiest areas, the shade-tolerant varieties of KBG have held their own with FF. Neither the creeping red fescue or the KBG in my mix has done much spreading...

Thanks for everyone’s feedback. I appreciate it. In 2009 I planted some KBG is shadier areas (though these areas do get a couple hours of sun daily). It has done well. In 2015, I once again planted some KBG in shade. Most has done well until this past winter when erosion took some out. The erosion w...

I did a reno of midnight, bewitched and mazama last fall and they blend real well in shade with about 2 hours of sun. I was surprised that it did so well as i was thinking of putting in a flower bed if it didn't work. I’m surprised Midnight did okay in the shade. I guess I should have purchased les...

For what it's worth, in my shady small back lawn, which was renovated in 2014 to a FF/KBG blend, the very shadiest areas are now exclusively Prosperity KBG. The KBG is quite thin in those shadiest areas, but it's all that's left. In those shadiest areas, the FF has all died out over the years. I wa...

Thanks Andy. Does the above also apply to Creeping Red Fescue as well? Personally, I hate the fine fescues (does not include Hard Fescues in my book) and they look to my eyes like wispy dying grasses. The color looks wrong to me, and the thin blades, laydown tendencies and patchiness of it make me ...

Thanks Andy. Does the above also apply to Creeping Red Fescue as well? Personally, I hate the fine fescues (does not include Hard Fescues in my book) and they look to my eyes like wispy dying grasses. The color looks wrong to me, and the thin blades, laydown tendencies and patchiness of it make me ...

Sure thing, here you go: https://aroundtheyard.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=21849&p=300524&hilit=Philes+sod#p300524 Once you get a KBG lawn established and well fed any loss of color becomes obvious too you. The pros use foliar iron to keep the color without having to put more N to it. We’ve ha...

Greg: I experimented with Hard Fescues about a decade ago (maybe a little more). I found that while the color can be pretty dark, the growth habit was that they don't like to be upright/erect, and above a 2" - 2.5" cut tend to develop a flopped-over, flowing meadow-like appearance that is a distrac...