You like "Patriot", Freyja? It is one of my absolute favorites! Here's some hope for your "splindly" little Patriot. She is 8 years old and a little less than three feet across: http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/ahejnas/005-2.jpg And here is her daughter - a "split" from three years ago (Thos...

Two years ago, I posted a question in the "Hosta Forum" on a major gardening forum, asking what I would need to do to help Hosta survive within ten feet of the trunk of my 125-year-old Norway Maple ("Bertha"). The Canopy on Bertha is 75 feet across - she is enormous, hence her name. Without a single...

WHAT?!?!? Work without my consultant? Heresy! How could I face the Poa?

Very funny. But seriously, look at how intertwined the Poa Annua in the picture is, and I don't think anyone on this forum would elect the nuclear option.

I know Quinclorac, but always defer to the expert in a specific area. I know Gary is the expert on this one.

Vette: Gary will be by later I'm sure - and he is the reigning "Queen of Quinclorac". Listen to him, but most of the news is very good - although there is a "waiting period" on brand new seeding. If you want to find Quinclorac alone, search Ebay for "Drive75". It's also in Ortho's "Weed-B-Gon with C...

Thanks for reposting that. (where ya been?) I rattled Zen's cage yesterday. For those of you that don't know Zenroot, he works with the representatives of many of the fertilizer/herbicide/seed companies and knows tons about what is coming and when. In an series of 8 private mails, he and I were goi...

How is the Emblem growing/spreading in your most shady areas? Unpredictably. Some very shady areas are doing fine, and others are quite problematic. I have to figure that out. I lost some grass to the PM in the shadiest areas. The Emblem just got very aggressive with the hotter days - it seems to l...

+1 Morph.

Socal: you are now a "Grainiac", which is a subspecies of "Lawnatic".

Yeah. The Poa Annua that I have isn't very clumpy, and is completely intermingled with the KBG. That's why I don't see RoundUp as an option - with collateral areas lost, I would lose 80-90% of my grass. Not an option in my book. You're looking at 3 sq ft in that picture - I have 13,997 more just lik...

But I don't think it does anything to Rye. That's a curious one. You all know that I had a good PR lawn before my first renovation, and I had some leftover PR in my lawn last year from the no-till, No-RU renovation. Well, Certainty was labeled as controlling PR and I saw PR die at 0.75 with my own ...

You HAVE lost it. Welcome to the club!

Which picture, and why?

Do your research first - at first release last year, there was no Sod Quality seed to be had (not all that weird for the first-year cultivar). I don't know if that situation has changed.

OK - let's calm it down. It's getting hot in here. This is the first true flaming thread that the site has experienced since its inception. Let's get back to discussions of the topic, please.

Tiemco: I'm not trying to nitpick your posting, but some of the statements are contradictory. Sandy soils are rarely hydrophobic (water-repelling). Have you done things like drive a stake into the soil at least a foot to make sure there isn't a rock outcrop just below the surface? Did you do a soil ...

Curious, are you getting good spread with the Emblem now? JG: Yes, but its weird. It seems to pout every time we get a 2-3 day cloudy period, be OK if it is sunny but cool, and explode every time we get a hot, sunny spell. It seems to LOVE heat. That certainly wasn't my experience when i had Moonli...

Here's a "typical spot" in the lawn for Poa Annua presence - not the best spot and not one of the "drifts". I think it is a good shot that demonstrates clearly hoe Poa Annua stands out in an Elite Cultivar. I mowed a little closer to expose the sins. http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/ahejnas/...

Where's the P. annua? You were complaining about P. annua and I don't SEE any P. ANNUA. Isn't it amazing what sins can be hidden when you mow to hide sins, water to give one grass an advantage over another, and use shade to your advantage? I'll take some close-ups later that demonstrate that I'm no...

Well, I promised that I'd try to get the Poa Plantation to a point that I wouldn't be leaping out of a window once the pictures were posted, by the end of May. Unfortunately, the sunshine was too brilliant today for good pictures (poor me!) on a shade-dappled lawn, but here it is. The white areas ar...

I'm looking for anyone that has actually TRIED to use "Certainty" on Poa Annua. Kindly don't fill this thread up with third-hand information - I already know how to use Google all by myself. Don't bother posting University articles, "I know somebody who knows somebody", etc. Skip this posting if you...