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- September 15th, 2021, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Do you need to aerate your lawn?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5928
Do you need to aerate your lawn?
Oh, gosh! Literally everyone wants you to aerate your lawn. Well, those most adamant about it are those making sweet, sweet money off of the lawn owners they serve. But read any newspaper article, every magazine, and even university extension service articles rave on with fabulous detail about how i...
- September 12th, 2021, 2:29 am
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2829
Re: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate
Walmart works for me. Every -icide manufacturer sells their own recipe containing glyphosate.
- September 12th, 2021, 2:27 am
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: St. Augustine grass is uneven
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6190
Re: St. Augustine grass is uneven
No an aerator will not help. Can you post a picture? Usually issues with St Aug involve uneven watering. Put some tuna or cat food cans in the grass in the good areas and the bad areas. Turn on the sprinkler and let it run your normal time to see if the cans collect water evenly. Either too much or ...
- September 12th, 2021, 2:22 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Testing For Red Clay in Texas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3001
Re: Testing For Red Clay in Texas
Regarding zoysia: I found it to be temperamental in my yard. I had a little display area I wanted to try it in. It seemed like every year something would happen and it turned brown. Too much water or not enough and it was out until the following April. Here's one of the neighbor's lawns. His problem...
- September 12th, 2021, 2:13 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Testing For Red Clay in Texas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3001
Re: Testing For Red Clay in Texas
Give the forum a search for 'leveling' and you'll find the topic covered every way from Sunday. Sand is pretty standard for leveling. Red colored soil or sand usually means a lot of iron in the soil. If you had a bunch of it you could do a jar test (forum search). That would tell you if you the rati...
- September 12th, 2021, 1:53 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Cut Bermuda Too Low (on purpose)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1752
Re: Cut Bermuda Too Low (on purpose)
What you're seeing is the effect of letting bermuda get too tall. If you continually mow it low, it will take on a horizontal growth habit. Those prickly brown stems will be clipped off and only the flat growing stems will grow. Then the grass blades grow upward from the horizontal stems. After that...
- September 12th, 2021, 1:49 am
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Anyone know whats going on here??
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1538
Re: Anyone know whats going on here??
I might. I struggled with a disease for several years. It was caused by too much rainfall, but once it started it never stopped - for years. I bought new St Augustine pieces, and those got the disease immediately. I was completely frustrated until I listened to the local radio garden show. He recomm...
- September 7th, 2021, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Idea for patching
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9702
Re: Idea for patching
I have a beautiful mat of wild buffalo outside my fence next to the road. I mow at the mower's lowest setting to discourage weeds, but the buff LOVES it. Turns out I am allergic to buffalo grass, but as long as I'm not rolling around in it, I'm good. The Universities of California at Davis and River...
- September 7th, 2021, 9:14 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Idea for patching
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9702
Re: Idea for patching
I'm not surprised the grounds didn't dry out in the microwave. I *am* a little surprised you didn't figure it out faster. If you've ever reheated a slice of pizza in therre microwave, you know that it gets soggier, not drier. I never tried to dry then out but if I spread them too thickly, they defi...
- September 1st, 2021, 3:38 am
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5680
Re: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
New computer arrived today, so I had to get a monitor real fast. I got the same one as you, Andy. It's very nice! As for the computer, it's a Dell Alienware R10, the AMD version. My daughter's father in law is in sales for Dell and has nice discounts to hand out. I ended up reinvesting the discount ...
- July 12th, 2021, 8:26 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Help-dying!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1956
Re: Help-dying!
Hi Gretta. I'm 99% certain shade was the original culprit. After that you started loving it to death. I'm going to suggest you stop doing everything and relax for a few day. Don't water it. Just mow on schedule. That shady corner is destined to become St Augustine. I have a buddy in Gilbert, AZ who ...
- July 12th, 2021, 8:17 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Did I put enough grass seed out for my new lawn?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3796
Re: Did I put enough grass seed out for my new lawn?
Sorry I'm late. You made a mistake seeding and then after seeding. You seeded a month early. Bermuda likes the hottest soil it can get for germination. For example, in Texas bermuda seed hits the shelves in February. You can throw the seed then, but it will be several months before you get decent ge...
- July 12th, 2021, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: What so I do about my first-time frozen st Augustine lawn in Corpus Christi—
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2854
Re: What so I do about my first-time frozen st Augustine lawn in Corpus Christi—
With the freeze damage, I chickened out on the scalping I was going to do. I ended up with large patches where the St Aug did not come back and was replaced by dormant bermuda. No problem for me, though, I'M MOVING AWAY!! Even so bermuda doesn't bother me. The yard used to be substantially bermuda a...
- July 6th, 2021, 8:34 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5680
Re: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
I just discovered, for those of us thinking of building a work station, that HP has a pretty good gaming computer at a good price. Currently it is hard to get an NVIDIA RTX graphics card for a decent price. Scalpers have tripled the price. However, at HP you can get the RTX GPUs on their pre-built o...
- July 6th, 2021, 8:11 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Foaming soap and killing wasps
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1878
Foaming soap and killing wasps
Many of you might know that generally I am a friend of the wasp. However, we are moving and need to sell our house. The Realtor told me my wasp farm has to go. We have wasps on the front and back door sills as well as above the doors on the eaves. I thought I would be able to suck them off the nests...
- June 18th, 2021, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5680
Re: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
Good to know. I'm not getting any hardware until after the move (is paid for). My last daughter has graduated and is bartending, so education payments are over, and we should be able to save money again.
- June 17th, 2021, 3:14 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5680
Re: Building the (Semi)permenant Home Office
Whoa! So you're using a TV as a monitor? That certainly changes pricing. And you're happy with the way it looks?? 4:4:2 Chroma sampling is the secret key??
- June 17th, 2021, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Windows 7
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3232
Re: Windows 7
I delayed getting Windows 10 up until this past spring. Well, you're most likely doing the Windows 10 stuff just as they're about to announce the end-of-support for Windows 10, and a likely date of 2025. They are about to announce what is being called (not officially yet) "Windows 11". Best guess s...
- June 13th, 2021, 11:45 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Windows 7
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3232
Re: Windows 7
I delayed getting Windows 10 up until this past spring. My insurance company started requiring Win 10 security settings to secure their payments, so that was that. The transfer went a lot smoother and faster than I anticipated. After watching the transition to Win 10 in my office I was not at all im...
- June 13th, 2021, 11:36 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Did anyone ever notice...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1703
Re: Did anyone ever notice...
Good eye t' you, too, might. Try saying that and not sounding Australian.