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- March 20th, 2022, 5:24 pm
- Forum: Soil management and compost forum
- Topic: Making Potting Soil for Plumeria
- Replies: 3
- Views: 846
Making Potting Soil for Plumeria
Fifty years ago I was all about potted plants in the house and hanging baskets. I made my own potting soil mixed from peat moss, perlite, compost, vermiculite, and some garden soil. Now I'm more about lawns, but I have some specimens carried along over the year and would like to try something new. P...
- March 20th, 2022, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Flowers & Annuals
- Topic: Trimming roses
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4057
Re: Trimming roses
It is likely time to prune if you have not already. I'm not keeping a very good garden calendar this year but we pruned our knockouts about 3 weeks ago. We got some more frost which reset them, but they are coming out in full now. Our last frost is over here, statistically and according to the exten...
- March 20th, 2022, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: New Sod in the South
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3802
New Sod in the South
If you live in the South and have never invested in sod before, please listen to this before you buy. You will get a much better deal for high quality sod if you buy from a nursery which sells a lot of it than you will buying from Home Depot or Lowes. HD and Lowes receive a shipment of sod roughly o...
- March 20th, 2022, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: 2022: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4845
Re: 2022: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?
We are just now awakening with a few sprouts of grass appearing mostly in the mulch we put down trying to smother it. Of course. This is our first spring at a new house for us, so my wife has been enormously busy landscaping. We're getting rid of roughly 3/4 of the turf and going with ground cover (...
- March 20th, 2022, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: San Diego, CA - Just had Platinum TE Paspalum installed
- Replies: 94
- Views: 26109
Re: San Diego, CA - Just had Platinum TE Paspalum installed
Most lawns are out of dormancy by the end of March. Would you mind tuning up your profile to home in better on your location? As you well know from living there, there are huge differences between the environments of La Jolla and El Cajon yet both are considered to be San Diego. If you live in El Ca...
- March 20th, 2022, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: New Lawn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 795
Re: New Lawn
Welcome, Colonel. I agree with turf toes on timing. Your grass should have enough reserve energy to make it until May. If you are in northern LA, you could go until the end of May. But if you were hit by Ida, then you're likely more coastal. If you wouldn't mind, would you please redo that part of y...
- December 29th, 2021, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Need to change email in my profile
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1305
Re: Need to change email in my profile
Perfect. Thank you.
- December 28th, 2021, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Need to change email in my profile
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1305
Need to change email in my profile
My email provider, texas.net, stopped providing email services on November 1st. I'm in the 10% that didn't get the word before hand. So I need to change my profile (in about 300 different sites). When I edit my profile, changing the email is not an option. How can I make that change?
- December 21st, 2021, 3:30 pm
- Forum: Lawn Renovations
- Topic: Elevation Survey Prior to Leveling/Renovating
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4813
Elevation Survey Prior to Leveling/Renovating
I thought this idea from Instructables was brilliant. Basically the guy gridded his back yard, placed a laser level on a stack of bricks, and measured the elevation drop from the level to the soil in each grid block. Armed with this kind of information you can make some better informed decisions abo...
- December 11th, 2021, 2:18 pm
- Forum: Lawn Renovations
- Topic: Switch from Bermuda to Fescue - TN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2841
Re: Switch from Bermuda to Fescue - TN
That is a great link you found. 1. Yes and no. 2. No and yes. 3. Fertilize with organic fertilizer to keep your soil microbes happy. It is the microbes processing the dog pee and poop that prevent yellowing. If you still see yellowing, then scatter a handful of table sugar on the yellow spot and giv...
- December 11th, 2021, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Lawn Renovations
- Topic: Please help a lawn noob
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1756
Re: Please help a lawn noob
Again, ibChato, please consider giving us your real location on your profile. The USDA Zone system is used for one purpose - to determine winter cold hardiness. Each zone represents 10 degrees cooler in winter, but it says nothing about how warm it gets in the summer. Having said that, even if you l...
- December 11th, 2021, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Weed identification help
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3153
Re: Weed identification help
Sorry for the long delay. We have been house hunting, house buying, house staging, and house moving for an entire year. We're not finished yet, but I am on and off the computer. Rather than using your zone and your location as Southern California (which extends from San Diego to Bakersfield includin...
- October 14th, 2021, 5:23 pm
- Forum: Warm-season grasses
- Topic: Zenith Zoysia and Drainage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2301
Re: Zenith Zoysia and Drainage
I believe the easiest way out is the route you identified. There are other ways, but they are more work. Sand is good as is topsoil if you can crush the clods out of the topsoil.
- October 14th, 2021, 5:20 pm
- Forum: Water cooler
- Topic: Who's vaccinated?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 18710
Re: Who's vaccinated?
Regarding the shingles shots, my first one was covered by my insurance while I was working. I delayed getting the second one until after I stopped working and was on Medicare. Turns out Medicare does not cover the shingles shots, and the price for the second one was going to be $180. So get yours be...
- October 4th, 2021, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Lawn care and pets (a dog specifically)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6503
Re: Lawn care and pets (a dog specifically)
I used to be anti glyphosate and probably for the reasons the op is anti. I should delve back into it, but it seems the juries awarding big claims against Monsanto/Bayer are ignoring the science presented to them and voting on the emotional issues. Again, I need to look more into it. It's the bad pr...
- September 28th, 2021, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Insecticide question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2174
Re: Insecticide question
I have not used an official insecticide in the lawn since about the 70s. Indoors I have historically used boric acid to cover large areas against roaches. For individual roaches I use diluted Super Clean, a garage and auto degreaser. While it does kill them within a minute, the best part is that the...
- September 22nd, 2021, 10:02 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Andersons Humic DG
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2385
Re: Andersons Humic DG
Are you talking about decomposed granite?
- September 22nd, 2021, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Organic lawn care
- Topic: Army Worms
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2160
Re: Army Worms
We get armyworms on our Texas mountain laurel plants. I spray with BT Worm Killer and they stop feeding immediately. Sadly Scott's has absorbed the Green Light garden products company and discontinued almost everything they sold. Here is a similar product. If you search for BT worm killer you get a ...
- September 15th, 2021, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
- Topic: Do you need to aerate your lawn?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5852
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: 2787
Re: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate
Walmart works for me. Every -icide manufacturer sells their own recipe containing glyphosate.