Specific to shady areas, or everywhere?

You're pretty ambitious there! It's looking great.

Great ideas, folks. Keep it up. Maybe the ideas won't all fit into one Article, but so what?

Got a macro lens? Dig up a few plants and do the white-paper thing. Whole plant, collars, auricles, ligules - you know the drill by now,

It's healthy and beautiful. Celebrate! The Iron thing is going to take time and effort. Stay the course and avoid the quick fixes that don't work.

I like it - a lot.

I picked up a bag of Mir-a-cal - $25 for 10K sqft. Expensive, but not outrageous.

Not at all expensive when you compare it to the equivalent 10 bags of the junk at the big-boxes. That's the equivalent of $2.50 a bag, and you didn't have to carry 500 lbs. Owww, my back.

If it is still spreading somewhat evenly and not smothering the grass, you are OK.

If by "life span" you mean how long is it effective as a fertilizer, you'll get lots of answers. My personal answer is that is is SO MILD as a fertilizer that I really don't count it in my fertilizer calculations. I put it down whenever I have time to as a general soil amendment and an Iron suppleme...

Hey, Mallory - is what I'm talking about with the "pouting period" normal, or is it something in the way that I'm raising my little minions? If its normal, are there ways to identify that is what is going on?

Uh-oh!!! Simple - what Day Number are you on? I've seen what I call the "pouting period", where the growth seems to take a break as the grass plants switch over from single blade to more-mature forms. But I've never seen the grass go brown then.

I'm starting work on the more detailed "Soil Management: Part 2" article and would like some input from Members about topics you'd like to see it cover. Please make sure that any topics that you'd like covered aren't already covered in the Soil Management: Part 1 article.

In different words, that was my original question. At what point does an Aggressive cultivar start working the rhizomes? My question is because I'm seeing bare patches getting smaller, and the grass filling it in does not have that ultra-fragile look of a brand-new seedlings - its a little more robu...

Best of Luck, and may Mother Nature smile on your work.

and just for jollies, is it possible that this cultivar will crowd out Poa T??? I can't answer that for a monostand, but as a monoculture with Emblem/Moonlight/America it most certainly could not crowd out Triv. That is why there is a renovation - I lost the battle with Triv. on a 20K sq ft battlef...

I used two 1-oz fishing sinkers from Walmart (sporting goods). A drop of superglue to attach them to the airstones and you're good-to-go in 5 minutes. If you have a choice at the store, the longer, narrower sinkers work best.

What you've done is created a planet-devouring monster that will eventually encompass Earth in a mass of writhing tendrils before invading space via spores and eventually destroying all other life in the galaxy.

Yes. What's your point?

You don't need to convince me. For disease reasons, I plan to overseed with Moonlight SLT annually. I'm sure it will take several years of overseeding to get Moonlight to be competitive against an Aggressive cultivar, but I expect at some point the spouse is going to discover that Emblem "might" enc...

From the wet Spring and early Summer, in my area lawns were exhibiting lots of (pretty harmless) green and black Algae on the surface of the soil. Harmless but Ugly. It started to fade slowly as the later Summer dried out some, but then exploded when I started watering my renovation 3X a day. I watc...

Yeah - I want to be there on the porch when the grass gets aggressive enough to swallow a Deer whole when the Deer visit to munch on the Hosta.

Mallory - I'm FAR from complaining. This is HEAVEN in my book. The wash-out was the "problem", not the aggressiveness. I can almost sit on the porch and LISTEN TO IT GROW. I'm just shocked that in 26 days it went from seed to ultra-fragile seedlings, then "pouted" for a week doing nothing and then s...