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- July 26th, 2020, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Lawn disaster
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2600
Re: Lawn disaster
Like Northeastlawn, I am also a fan of Lesco Double Eagle Perennial Rye. The only problem I had with it is winter kill. It does not like the Syracuse winters. But your climate should be more mild. It establishes quickly and looks really good. Last year I renovated most of my lawn to KBG and I will d...
- July 26th, 2020, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Lawn disaster
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2600
Re: Lawn disaster
When you say you used "round up for lawns" do you mean Weed b Gone? Round up will kill everything. Weed b Gone will kill most common weeds, though not crab grass. And Tenacity ... unless you used the correct dose and applied it at the right rate, that'll kill a lot of good grass too. Tenacity also d...
- July 26th, 2020, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: I don't deserve a lawn
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1902
Re: I don't deserve a lawn
Until you figure out what's killing the grass, I wouldn't put anything down. It could be drought, insect or disease. Or it could be the result of applying the mushroom compost. Maybe post some pics and then get a soil test of a dead spot and another of a healthy spot? Have you done the screwdriver t...
- July 25th, 2020, 10:35 am
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Help ! This has taken over my front lawn
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1061
Re: Help ! This has taken over my front lawn
I had good luck hand pulling nutsedge in a newly seeded area. But it depends how much you have and how strong your back is.
- July 25th, 2020, 6:29 am
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Help ! This has taken over my front lawn
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1061
- July 25th, 2020, 6:26 am
- Forum: Lawn Renovations
- Topic: jskierko's Fall 2020 Bewitched Front Renovation
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6460
Re: jskierko's Fall 2020 Bewitched Front Renovation
Sounds like a good plan - good luck. I will be renovating 4K sqft in my backyard this year and I will follow the same schedule.
- July 23rd, 2020, 6:32 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lawn Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4500
Re: Lawn Forums
FWIW, overall traffic to the site is roughly the same. What has changed is we had a handful of members who created scores of sock puppet accounts. They were posting from all of them. At its worst, we had threads where multiple sock puppet accounts were all attacking one legit user. We’ve cleaned a ...
- July 23rd, 2020, 6:29 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lawn Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4500
- July 23rd, 2020, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lawn Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4500
Re: Lawn Forums
My profile says that I joined in 2010. I remember somebody inviting me here from Garden Web but I don't remember who and I don't remember how far along this site was when I joined. I do remember Bestlawn (the person) encouraging me to do a renovation and I remember thinking "you want me to kill off ...
- July 23rd, 2020, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lawn Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4500
Re: Lawn Forums
I have been the resident lawn nut in each of the 5 neighborhoods that I have lived in. And my lawn is always the nicest. Everything I know about lawns I learned here. It is amazing how many neighbors will look at a beautiful lawn, ask the owner for advice and then go to the hardware store and be per...
- July 23rd, 2020, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Tenacity on newly seeded lawn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 395
Re: Tenacity on newly seeded lawn
I have been spot spraying my crabgrass with tenacity and I would say that 20% has been killed off, 20% showed whitening and then recovered and 60% showed no ill effects.
- July 18th, 2020, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Root length: Is this normal?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 855
- July 18th, 2020, 9:43 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1417
Re: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
It's always possible that there is more than one thing going on. But there is consensus that you have a fungus. Maybe it will resolve itself and maybe it wont. Treating the fungus will cost a few dollars and take some time but it wont hurt anything. Not treating it might turn out fine, or you could ...
- July 17th, 2020, 9:59 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Lets see some dog pics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2569
Re: Lets see some dog pics
Beetle eating Bella is worth her weight in gold!
- July 16th, 2020, 7:53 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: new fescue mix sod
- Replies: 3
- Views: 188
Re: new fescue mix sod
I think it's really hard to give an answer with # of times a day and for how long because there are so many variables. But I would think that you want to soak the soil down past whatever depth your roots are at. I think you want to encourage those roots to go deep. I guess the only way to know wheth...
- July 16th, 2020, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Help with lawn issue please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 357
Re: Help with lawn issue please!
My perennial rye grass does that regardless of how much water it gets. So I don't think it is dying because of lack of water. I think it's just the natural life cycle of that stalk - it likely held seeds earlier in the year, or it would have if you had stopped moving it. Having said that ... the ide...
- July 16th, 2020, 7:21 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1417
Re: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
Do you think that there is anyway that this grass is just dormant v.s. disease? Dormant grass doesn't have lesions. You might have some grass that's dormant but I think you also have disease. Maybe you can leave it alone and it will clear up on its own. Or maybe it will leave you with big dead spot...
- July 16th, 2020, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1417
Re: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
How much lawn do you have? Rather than order it on line, I would find a Site One in VA and go pick it up. If you only have a few thousand square feet of lawn, you will want to use a 1 or 2 gallon pump sprayer. If you have much more than that you may want to explore a 4 gallon backpack sprayer. Site ...
- July 16th, 2020, 8:48 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1417
Re: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
The health blades looks great but the unhealthy blades seem to have lesions on them suggesting disease. Someone with more experience than me will have to weigh in but my bet is disease. My new KBG caught a little something last fall but a fungicide knocked it out and now I apply Serenade fungicide a...
- July 16th, 2020, 6:26 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1417
Re: Fescue Lawn Care | Northern VA
That sounds like a lot of water. You want the roots to dig deep in search of that moisture. You dont want to promote a shallow root system. Maybe start extending your watering to every 3rd day while watching for signs of stress? The other problem with too much water is it promotes disease. I dont kn...