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by Michael Wise
July 31st, 2016, 9:29 pm
Forum: Water cooler
Topic: Union Made American Cars?
Replies: 8
Views: 495

Re: Union Made American Cars?

I buy American made or Assembled whenever possible. Americans working and making a livable wage pay the taxes, that in turn, pay my wages as a federal employee. God Bless America. I call myself trying to do this, but need to make a better effort to check what I'm buying. Thanks for posting this, Red.
by Michael Wise
July 29th, 2016, 12:09 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Raised height but now crop circles have returned
Replies: 9
Views: 570

Re: Raised height but now crop circles have returned

Your grass looks great though.

Maybe you could manage your cutting height better. Start the season lower and gradually raise the cutting height as needed through out the season.

That would help some.
by Michael Wise
July 29th, 2016, 12:06 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Raised height but now crop circles have returned
Replies: 9
Views: 570

Re: Raised height but now crop circles have returned

The only thing I can think of is that now since the turf is so thick and growing really well the mower does't really rest on the actual ground anymore so the grass lifts it along with the bumps underneath. Does that make any sense? That's exactly what's happening. Along with the mower blade produci...
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 4:30 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds
Replies: 33
Views: 3425

Re: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds

Nixnix42 wrote:My spurge on north side of lawn last year took 2 hits of Celsius before kill at high rate approx 2weeks apart. Yes some slight yellowing of Bermuda but bounced back within 1 week


Sent from my iOS device using the Yard Help App
Maybe this is the ticket. The repeated app.
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 3:35 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Frustrated Weed Wacker Owner-Any help is appreciated
Replies: 16
Views: 639

Re: Frustrated Weed Wacker Owner-Any help is appreciated

Is the "default bump trimmer line" similar to a speed feed trimmer head? I have a speed feed trimmer head on my wacker and I can go for days trimming (well, until the line is out). Then it takes me 2 mins to reload 10 ft of line and go at it again. My Stihl is pretty quick. Cut off 2 pieces of line...
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 3:32 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Frustrated Weed Wacker Owner-Any help is appreciated
Replies: 16
Views: 639

Re: Frustrated Weed Wacker Owner-Any help is appreciated

Nixnix42 wrote: Damn you ware
A common theme today. :rotfl:
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 3:31 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds
Replies: 33
Views: 3425

Re: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds

It'll at least help break the cycle some if you get them out of there. Those things make a ton of seeds. Good luck! Hate the Celsius didn't work out. Maybe try it another date with the high rate. That's all I got. Spurge is one I just never fully conquered. Minimized, but never fully beaten it seemed.
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 3:06 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds
Replies: 33
Views: 3425

Re: Celsius WG is not killing my spurge weeds

So you are sure that it was the weed recovering and not a new weed? I use to try to hand pull spurge because it is easy to remove, but it seemed like every time I'd pull a new crop would germinate. Its a struggle. Your surfactant was good. Non ionic is just fine. I don't have an answer for you. It's...
by Michael Wise
July 27th, 2016, 10:39 am
Forum: Soil management and compost forum
Topic: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report
Replies: 210
Views: 8535

Re: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report

I don't often post as a moderator, but connection issues and proxy server usage are not really relevant to soil testing and nutrient supplementation. All it is doing is cluttering the thread. A separate topic in the Site Question forum would be more appropriate to determining why Billy is/was havin...
by Michael Wise
July 26th, 2016, 3:39 pm
Forum: Soil management and compost forum
Topic: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report
Replies: 210
Views: 8535

Re: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report

If that's how you want to fertilizer, why soil test at all? The reason that we soil test is so we can determine what nutrients we need to supplement the soil with and how much to use. If you're just interested in applying nutrients regardless if they're needed or not, why soil test? For the reason ...
by Michael Wise
July 26th, 2016, 3:03 pm
Forum: Soil management and compost forum
Topic: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report
Replies: 210
Views: 8535

Re: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report

lawndad wrote:
Michael Wise wrote:I don't do a soil test.

Gotcha, just curious why not?
No free time to be in the yard.
by Michael Wise
July 26th, 2016, 2:49 pm
Forum: Soil management and compost forum
Topic: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report
Replies: 210
Views: 8535

How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report

So we don't know the max capacity of this gas tank, but we do know that empty gives us deficiency symptoms. We also know that 5 gallons doesn't overfill the tank. Why not keep it at 5 gallons and never deal with deficiency symptoms? The goal of those on the board isn't to save every scrap of time th...
by Michael Wise
July 26th, 2016, 2:31 pm
Forum: Soil management and compost forum
Topic: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report
Replies: 210
Views: 8535

Re: How to Interpret Your Own Soil Test Report

Good point. And for what people on this forum are trying to accomplish, a very logical approach.

Why not?
by Michael Wise
July 26th, 2016, 12:45 am
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Milorganite
Replies: 74
Views: 3419

Re: Milorganite

Can someone give me the skinny on milo? I've seen everyone reference it a ton but i dont know anything about it. I can try. How often do you put it down? I put it down every month. 1 bag or 36lb per 3k of lawn. What does it do? It's labeled as organic, so the basics of that include: It feeds your s...
by Michael Wise
July 25th, 2016, 10:38 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Milorganite
Replies: 74
Views: 3419

Re: Milorganite

:rotfl:
by Michael Wise
July 25th, 2016, 8:24 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: What's your secret in beating drought stress?
Replies: 106
Views: 4260

Re: What's your secret in beating drought stress?

McLovins been drinking Sumagrow again.
by Michael Wise
July 24th, 2016, 8:13 pm
Forum: Irrigation
Topic: Connect rotor sprinkler to garden hose?
Replies: 18
Views: 2103

Re: Connect rotor sprinkler to garden hose?

As for as the performance goes is the output limited by pressure or flow rate? Suppose if the max flow of the faucet is 3 GPM and I used a 4 GPM nozzle, I know I won't get 4 GPM but will the nozzle give me the same range as the 3 GPM nozzle? Not necessarily. The output will start turning into a str...
by Michael Wise
July 24th, 2016, 7:48 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: TurfSpy™ EARLY STRESS DETECTION GLASSES
Replies: 16
Views: 864

Re: TurfSpy™ EARLY STRESS DETECTION GLASSES

Is that Red?