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by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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 (...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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.
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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?
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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.
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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?
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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 ...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
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.