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- June 18th, 2010, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Got my soil test results - now what?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 752
Got my soil test results - now what?
Just got my Logan Labs soil test back. Could you guys interpret it for me and give me some recommendations? This house (lawn) is about a year old. KBG, rye, fescue mix. This year it has had milorganite and soybean meal. The back yard looks quite good. It gets partial sun. The front yard gets full su...
- June 10th, 2010, 3:20 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Soil composition test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 443
Re: Soil composition test
Andy I have not done a soil test yet, though I have the paperwork from Logan Labs here on my desk. I will re-do the test with a different container and use the 2-2-2 method. I wont need to wait 2 days because the water will be clear in less than 8 hrs. Does that mean I have very little clay, some sa...
- June 10th, 2010, 11:11 am
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Soil composition test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 443
Soil composition test
I took a few cups of soil and shook it up in this soda bottle. After 1 minute about 1.5" had settled. I guess that's the sand. After an hour an additional 2.5" had settled. I figured that was the clay. After 8 hrs the water was mainly clear, there was no identifiable layer of silt and the level of t...
- June 8th, 2010, 1:34 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: BL Soil Conditioner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 681
Re: BL Soil Conditioner
Thank you Clover.
- June 7th, 2010, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: BL Soil Conditioner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 681
Re: BL Soil Conditioner
Thnaks Gary
I have read through all 8 pages of that thread a few times and I am still confused about what supplies I need and what proportions I should use. Is there a "BL Soil Conditioner for Dummies" thread or article out there?
Thanks
I have read through all 8 pages of that thread a few times and I am still confused about what supplies I need and what proportions I should use. Is there a "BL Soil Conditioner for Dummies" thread or article out there?
Thanks
- June 6th, 2010, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: BL Soil Conditioner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 681
BL Soil Conditioner
Can someone point me to a thread that discusses the BL Soil Conditioner? I cant find it.
- June 4th, 2010, 10:53 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: How well did Certainty do on your white clover?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: How well did Certainty do on your white clover?
thanks. I am hoping that some of the tall grassy weeds that I have are quackgrass or Johnsongrass and will therefore be controlled.
- June 4th, 2010, 10:37 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: How well did Certainty do on your white clover?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
How well did Certainty do on your white clover?
I just hit my front yard with certainty on June 2nd. That was for Poa T. I have some existing patches of white clover that need to go as well. If you have used certainty at the .5 oz rate, how did it work on your clover?
- May 28th, 2010, 11:37 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Can we use a tracker with Certainty?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 177
Re: Can we use a tracker with Certainty?
I spent a whole day spraying last weekend and I didnt feel like I needed a tracker. I used twine to create lanes in my lawn about 6-7 feet wide. Started at one end and walking backward sprayed from left to right within that lane. When I ran out of juice, I put a marker down, went and re-filled, and ...
- May 27th, 2010, 9:54 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: What is THIS!!!!
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2212
Re: What is THIS!!!!
I have the same exact thing growing in my lawn. Less of it at the moment, but the same stuff. For what it's worth, this is a new home (new lawn) and I have not yet used any sort of grain. So if it's a grain that we both have growing - I got mine from somewhere but not from anything I put down. My lo...
- May 26th, 2010, 8:36 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: I lost the tiny .16 gram Certainty scooper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 339
I lost the tiny .16 gram Certainty scooper
Anybody have an idea how to get a .16 gram scooper? Other than call Monsanto?
- May 26th, 2010, 7:22 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Certainty and heat/drought stress
- Replies: 4
- Views: 131
Re: Certainty and heat/drought stress
ok. I've got 3 sprinklers going now on the area I hit yesterday. I'm going to go hit another section while I have an hour of daylight left.
- May 26th, 2010, 5:10 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Certainty and heat/drought stress
- Replies: 4
- Views: 131
Certainty and heat/drought stress
I am half way through a several day long project of putting certainty down for Poa T. It has been unseasonably hot (90s) here for the last few days and it is supposed to stay hot and mostly dry going forward. I suspect that my lawn is not going to like the dry hot weather as mush as the cool, wet sp...
- May 25th, 2010, 9:49 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Surfactant for Certainty
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1149
Re: Surfactant for Certainty
Oh, Dave - I hear you!!! I remember the yellow caution tape (so I wouldn't lose track of where I was) and the sore arms from the 2-gallon tank across 20,000 sq ft like it was yesterday. You don't understand this yet, but you will celebrate the lawn turning yellow in a week or so! I created grids us...
- May 25th, 2010, 9:17 pm
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Surfactant for Certainty
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1149
Re: Surfactant for Certainty
The other dawn I found at the store today said it was "anionic." But at the hardware store I found had something called Bonide Turbo Sticker - so I used that.
I spent about 8 hrs going about 2/3 of my 30,000 sqft lawn with my 2 gallon sprayer. Not fun.
I spent about 8 hrs going about 2/3 of my 30,000 sqft lawn with my 2 gallon sprayer. Not fun.
- May 25th, 2010, 10:13 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Surfactant for Certainty
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1149
Re: Surfactant for Certainty
Unless they have reformulated it, Dawn is a combination of anionic and nonionic surfactants. A side note: many of the "ultra dawn" products are antibacterial. Don't use any antibacterial products on your lawn. This one is clearly marked "anionic." It's not one of the antibacterial ones. Should I us...
- May 25th, 2010, 9:56 am
- Forum: Cool-season grasses
- Topic: Surfactant for Certainty
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1149
Surfactant for Certainty
I am going to start spraying certainty for Poa Triv today. The instructions say to use a nonionic surfactant. I bought some dawn dishwashing soap that says it is anionic. It's the "ultra concentrated" version of Dawn. There was another vesrion of Dawn that didnt say anything about whether it was ani...
- May 22nd, 2010, 11:26 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Cracked Corn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1768
Re: Cracked Corn
1.5% N in 50 Lb bag. 50 * .015 = 0.75
There is 3/4 Lb of N in the bag.[/quote]
Good thing this isnt a math forum.
There is 3/4 Lb of N in the bag.[/quote]
Good thing this isnt a math forum.
- May 20th, 2010, 3:35 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Cracked Corn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1768
Re: Cracked Corn
Sorry, it said 7% protein - not nitrogen. My bad. If we are looking at just nitrogen, isnt the milorganite a cheaper source? If a 36lb bag of milorganite has 5% nitrogen, that's 1.8 lbs of nitrogen for a cost around here of about $11. If a 50lb bag of cracked corn is 1.5% nitrogen, that's 1.5lbs of ...
- May 20th, 2010, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Cracked Corn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1768
Cracked Corn
I am new to organic lawn care, though I have generally used milorganite and ringers over the last few years - not sure if that counts. Anyway, I would like to try my hand at more organic methods. The issue I want to deal with today is the crummy quality of the soil in my front yard. I have not done ...