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by Dchall_San_Antonio
June 12th, 2021, 10:34 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Should I be worried yet?
Replies: 2
Views: 1481

Re: Should I be worried yet?

Bermuda seed should go down in the hottest heat of summer. Backing that date up into spring extends the wait until the seed sees higher heat numbers. You could put the seed down in February (when they put the seed in the stores :banghead: ), but it isn't going to germinate until the soil gets hot en...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
June 12th, 2021, 9:14 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Bermuda lawn, lots of dandelions
Replies: 2
Views: 1677

Re: Bermuda lawn, lots of dandelions

Okay I just read your other msg about your being a novice with lawn care. Please take a few pictures of the yard from a few angles and post them here. Take one from across the street, too. The best yard pictures are taken under the clouds, so if you can arrange for that, it would be best. :) So let'...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
June 12th, 2021, 9:03 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Bermuda lawn, lots of dandelions
Replies: 2
Views: 1677

Re: Bermuda lawn, lots of dandelions

It seems like most people who want to seed into bermuda are trying to grow it in the shade. Somewhere there is a building, a tree or other plant, a fence, or something casting shade into the area. Adding seed will not help...at all. Oh, you might get the seed to germinate and give you a (false) sens...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
June 12th, 2021, 8:46 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Why isn't my winter grass dying off in Phoenix AZ?
Replies: 1
Views: 1228

Re: Why isn't my winter grass dying off in Phoenix AZ?

I think I can help, but would you mind answer another couple of questions? I have a friend in Gilbert. We've been chatting about his lawn for 10 years probably. He has bermuda in the front and St Augustine in back. What was your watering schedule before you cut it back? How often and for how long we...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
June 12th, 2021, 8:33 pm
Forum: Organic lawn care
Topic: Yet Another Organic Fert question
Replies: 39
Views: 12839

Re: Yet Another Organic Fert question

I'm taking some personal time away from moving from one house to another to read the lawn forums. We're moving back to San Antonio so that my screen name still works. Anyway I don't have anything to add to the original question, but this topic has run off in different directions such that I do have ...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 18th, 2021, 4:38 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Idea for patching
Replies: 27
Views: 9651

Re: Idea for patching

Is that an OK mold or a pathogenic mold (for grass)? I dunno. My understanding from mushroom growers is that the fungus on coffee is the Trichoderma fungus, the same fungus that works against fungal diseases in St Augustine. Supposedly that is why mushroom growers don't like coffee grounds anywhere...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 14th, 2021, 12:48 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: JaMur Zoysia broadleaf post emergent weed control plan
Replies: 3
Views: 1353

Re: JaMur Zoysia broadleaf post emergent weed control plan

If you don't have a blanket of weeds, then I would not use a blanket approach to weeding. I would spot spray the individual weeds. With the marker dye you can see where you've been, so it should go fast and easy. As for timing, I would go back 4 weeks and do it in mid April, but here we are. Otherwi...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 14th, 2021, 12:44 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: New member in SC with Centipede
Replies: 6
Views: 1738

Re: New member in SC with Centipede

rerun, if you want the centipede to thrive, it needs acidic soil. Lime is going the wrong way. Logan Labs is great for fixing the soil, but in your case, you don't need it fixed. On the other hand, if you want to fix the soil, then you can go with something like bermuda or St Augustine, which like t...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 14th, 2021, 12:38 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: First Time Posting
Replies: 2
Views: 1263

Re: First Time Posting

That looks just like my nephew's back yard north of Dripping Springs - back fence and everything. Is the soil underneath really rocky? Stop using chemicals on the lawn. You don't have grubs. Grubs and insects are almost always a late summer problem. Get rid of the grass killer. That is the likely cu...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 14th, 2021, 12:20 pm
Forum: Organic lawn care
Topic: Help me not be the neighborhood (and paint my lawn green)
Replies: 5
Views: 2280

Re: Help me not be the neighborhood (and paint my lawn green)

Not that I'm looking or worrying about such things, of course...
But if this was a competition, he's just sayin'... :wave:
by Dchall_San_Antonio
May 14th, 2021, 12:17 pm
Forum: Organic lawn care
Topic: Cabinet maker sawdust
Replies: 12
Views: 4226

Re: Cabinet maker sawdust

Years ago, dare I say a decade or so ago, there was a woodworker on the compost forum at gardenweb. He and I had a lengthy discussion about his use of sawdust in his garden. I tried to warn him away from it but he'd been using it for 15 years already, so no sense in my warning him. He claimed his ha...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 25th, 2021, 5:07 pm
Forum: Water cooler
Topic: New Shelf
Replies: 10
Views: 1525

Re: New Shelf

I went with the bidet attachment a year ago. I've been home all the time and not using someone else's TP, and over the year I've used 6 rolls. My wife is a little creeped out by the bidet, so the powder room is my personal bathroom. But I don't suppose there is a bidet alternative to artist canvases...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 25th, 2021, 5:02 pm
Forum: Water cooler
Topic: Who's vaccinated?
Replies: 59
Views: 18720

Re: Who's vaccinated?

We got our second Moderna shots April 15. My wife got slammed with side effects including muscle aches, skin sensitivity, chills, and drowsiness. She managed to stay awake for Friday, work, and drive home. Then she collapsed in bed and didn't get up again until morning. Saturday she felt fine again....
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 25th, 2021, 4:50 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Help with an Eastern North Carolina Lawn
Replies: 1
Views: 1032

Re: Help with an Eastern North Carolina Lawn

I replied to, basically, the same questions here, so I'm not going to give it to you again. Once was enough. :amen:
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 25th, 2021, 4:46 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Time line applying Urea after slow Nitrogen
Replies: 7
Views: 2727

Re: Time line applying Urea after slow Nitrogen

Thanks for updating. That's helpful. You have bald and thin areas. Are those in the shade? Bermuda needs at least 4 hours of direct sunlight just to be thin, and it needs a good 6-8 hours to become dense. If you have spots which do not get that much direct sunlight, you should consider converting th...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 25th, 2021, 4:01 pm
Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
Topic: New User & New Sod
Replies: 13
Views: 3669

Re: New User & New Sod

Here is what Purdue says... Chemical control: Unfortunately, only nonselective control options exist for quackgrass control in cool-season turf. Spot-treating with a nonselective systemic herbicide such as glyphosate (Roundup) will help to manage quackgrass in cool-season lawns. Results are best whe...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 23rd, 2021, 3:42 pm
Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
Topic: Spreader setting
Replies: 3
Views: 2554

Re: Spreader setting

When I first started with organic fertilizer I found I had to make multiple passes. Sometimes that's the way it works.
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 23rd, 2021, 3:28 pm
Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
Topic: Using both Scots EZ Seed Patch and Repair and also Southern Weed and Feed?
Replies: 1
Views: 1716

Re: Using both Scots EZ Seed Patch and Repair and also Southern Weed and Feed?

I'm not trying to be discouraging with my remarks here, but I will be discouraging you from doing almost everything you have in mind. Hopefully you came to our forum with an open mind to learn what we have found to work over decades of lawn care. Since you already put down the Scott's product, it's ...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 23rd, 2021, 2:52 pm
Forum: Warm-season grasses
Topic: Time line applying Urea after slow Nitrogen
Replies: 7
Views: 2727

Re: Time line applying Urea after slow Nitrogen

Hi fatuous, and welcome to the forum. One of the items you were asked to enter when you registered was your location. We use the location to help understand issues the members are having. For example if you lived in northeast Texas, we might assume you deal with rather moist conditions as compared t...
by Dchall_San_Antonio
April 23rd, 2021, 2:27 pm
Forum: Organic lawn care
Topic: 10-10-10 Organic Fert
Replies: 21
Views: 5123

Re: 10-10-10 Organic Fert

Here is the label list for Sportsman's Choice Floating Pond & Catfish Feed (32% protein) Processed Grain By-Products, Grain Products, Plant Protein Products, Animal Protein Products, Roughage Products, Animal Fat (preserved with BHA), Calcium Carbonate, Natural Chicken Flavor, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin...