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by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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?
by schreibdave
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 ...
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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?
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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...
by schreibdave
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.
by schreibdave
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 ...
by schreibdave
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 ...