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by northeastlawn
April 4th, 2022, 2:27 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Is it worth taking a chance on Blue Tag Mazama seed?
Replies: 2
Views: 326

Re: Is it worth taking a chance on Blue Tag Mazama seed?

Just an update, I kept going back and forth before i over-seeded. A.) On the one hand, its the spring and Im overseeing with KBG, two big no-no's. Why not take a chance with the Blue Tag seed. B.) Then again all the posts about triv and my already existing poa-a issues, why take more chances? So I s...
by northeastlawn
March 25th, 2022, 12:16 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Is it worth taking a chance on Blue Tag Mazama seed?
Replies: 2
Views: 326

Is it worth taking a chance on Blue Tag Mazama seed?

My backyard is currently a mix of Midnight, Prosperity, Blueberry, and Bewitched. Unfortunately I have noticed that my yard gets a lot more shade around August as the sun dips behind a tree we have. I really should have included more bewitched in my mix. Because of my poa-a issues I was thinking of ...
by northeastlawn
March 20th, 2022, 10:18 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Should I dig these out?
Replies: 3
Views: 346

Re: Should I dig these out?

You could spray it with Tenacity, the theory is that blanket spraying your lawn will cause the non KBG to turn white. In my experience it takes a few application to get my mature poa-a to turn white, and by then some of my good KBG is also getting white. So the method isn't as fool proof as people m...
by northeastlawn
March 5th, 2022, 1:02 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Early Season Pre-M?
Replies: 14
Views: 1135

Re: Early Season Pre-M?

Generally spring is for CG, while August and late fall is for poa-annua. Prodiamine 65 WDG is supposed to last longer, while Dimension provides some post application for CG if you put down at the highest rate. Both have yearly maximums. I figure out my yearly Prodiamine 65 WDG rate and divide it by ...
by northeastlawn
March 5th, 2022, 12:50 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Status of POACure? (Updated 02/2020 below)
Replies: 60
Views: 9829

Re: Status of POACure? (Updated 02/2020 below)

I emailed them last month, sent me a reply they hope to have it available for home use soon. I have been around long enough, not to count on it any time soon. It doesn't hurt to keep asking, so they know there is a market for it.
by northeastlawn
December 28th, 2021, 5:45 pm
Forum: Lawn Renovations
Topic: Elevation Survey Prior to Leveling/Renovating
Replies: 5
Views: 4817

Re: Elevation Survey Prior to Leveling/Renovating

As a former engineer, I can tell you, they are basically doing an elevation survey without drawing contour lines. Laying out the grid allows you to do it without a transit, but looking at that graph kind of makes my brain hurt, I guess thats why they invented contour lines. I will agree that shootin...
by northeastlawn
October 20th, 2021, 7:33 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Trouble with KBG on Long Island, NY
Replies: 19
Views: 13811

Re: Trouble with KBG on Long Island, NY

My lawn looks very similar this year. I narrowed it down to either poa-a dying late summer, fungus, or excessive shade. When late august hits, my lawn gets really shady. I notice the grass really struggles. The disease (rust) also takes hold of it. It’s KBG so it comes back, but long term, my soluti...
by northeastlawn
October 13th, 2021, 4:51 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Raking prior to dormant overseeding
Replies: 13
Views: 7099

Re: Raking prior to dormant overseeding

I have to grapple with this every fall. Dethatch and pull out a lot of dead poa-a, or keep my pre-m barrier down and hope the dead poa-a doesnt come back. I have not figured this one out, but...... Dormant seeding is "hail mary pass" at best, so the way it work in nature is that the seed will work i...
by northeastlawn
October 12th, 2021, 11:01 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Scott's Sun and Shade Mixture
Replies: 14
Views: 8197

Re: Scott's Sun and Shade Mixture

I didn't see what kind of sun light the lawn got? I did see where it said this was only temporary. It takes multiple seasons for a lawn to really grow well, while you may have other plans now, its worth doing it right just incase your stuck with what you put down for a few years. I really hate FF; i...
by northeastlawn
October 7th, 2021, 9:42 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Typical Late-Season "Problems"
Replies: 9
Views: 2201

Re: Typical Late-Season "Problems"

Ditto on the rust issues for me also. The lawn did well all summer, and I was really looking forward to the fall Fertlizer program making the lawn pop. But disease issues really thinned out the lawn and you wouldn’t even be able tell I have been fertilizing it. I put down some disease-ex two weeks a...
by northeastlawn
September 20th, 2021, 1:11 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Need opinions for methods on full reno
Replies: 34
Views: 9720

Re: Need opinions for methods on full reno

It's kind of like the subject of rolling the seeds in with a roller. At some point everyone notices that the grass comes in better the spots where you pressed the seeds in with your foot steps. It's not that the better seed to soil contest doesn't help germination, its that you agitating the weed se...
by northeastlawn
September 8th, 2021, 11:32 pm
Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
Topic: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate
Replies: 7
Views: 2790

Re: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate

The OP mentioned that it’s out of stock on Amazon and HD, but on the other vendor list, it does list true value stores. That’s probably another option, I don’t got into the smaller hardware stores, but they may also have it.
by northeastlawn
September 8th, 2021, 3:50 pm
Forum: Lawn Care Basics 101
Topic: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate
Replies: 7
Views: 2790

Re: Where to buy generic/inexpensive glyphosate

Do you have any tractor supply or site one stores in your area?
by northeastlawn
September 8th, 2021, 10:10 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Water in amounts for PreM?
Replies: 4
Views: 601

Re: Water in amounts for PreM?

Read the label, but I think it would depend if your on a slope and the rate of rain we get. Typically landscape companies spray this stuff way ahead of time and wait for the rain to come a few days later. if it needed a lot precision it would never work, and "water in with about an 1 inch" is pretty...
by northeastlawn
September 6th, 2021, 9:20 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Is this nutsedge?
Replies: 3
Views: 544

Re: Is this nutsedge?

Yes it has a triangle stem, I wouldn’t say it’s in a wet area at all. If anything my sister has never really watered, but once we took care of the crab grass, this stuff really stood out.
by northeastlawn
September 5th, 2021, 4:43 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Is this nutsedge?
Replies: 3
Views: 544

Is this nutsedge?

My sister has what I think is nutsedge….. [url=https://postimg.cc/nM1Jr3Qg][img]https://i.postimg.cc/nM1Jr3Qg/DE552-E97-637-D-47-F9-A8-BC-78-BC10-B31813.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.cc/Cn7m0B5r][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Cn7m0B5r/F9-DA9-DF8-73-A7-400-D-A416-F5-E650-FFB271.jpg[/img][/url] She ...
by northeastlawn
September 2nd, 2021, 9:49 am
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Need a Grass Seed for Overseeding
Replies: 1
Views: 440

Re: Need a Grass Seed for Overseeding

if you read through a lot of old posts on here, you'll find there are shade "tolerant" grasses, but none that thrive in the shade. You will also find the tree roots sap a lot of water from the lawn, and grass in the shade needs a good source for water. Fine Fescue is the most shade tolerant, but is ...
by northeastlawn
August 30th, 2021, 11:09 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Heavy (but probably steady) rain and Fertilizer
Replies: 10
Views: 1116

Re: Heavy (but probably steady) rain and Fertilizer

I dropped mine today, 1st app of Urea (45-0-0) last night and watered it in the next morning. We are expecting 1-2” Wednesday into Thursday.I know I didn’t want to risk putting down during the big rain event, so put it down a bit early. I figure worse case if gets washed down deeper and I waste 1 ap...
by northeastlawn
August 12th, 2021, 4:54 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: 100 degrees and rain in the afternoon
Replies: 6
Views: 6617

Re: 100 degrees and rain in the afternoon

I had to give up on this years preventive fungus program this year. I had been using the Serenade (Cease) ver two was and have gotten farther than I ever have, but started to notice the first out breaks of rust starting last weekend and saw the upcoming heat wave coming. I wanted to stay the course ...
by northeastlawn
August 10th, 2021, 10:38 pm
Forum: Cool-season grasses
Topic: Tenacity spot treatment disaster?
Replies: 5
Views: 4234

Re: Tenacity spot treatment disaster?

Tenacity is tricky to apply in normal conditions, it’s a lot on your lawn to apply it when temps are mid 80’s. I have a preatty established lawn now, from mid July to mid August all I do is water it as it needs it and cut it. I don’t even edge it, because all that does is rip the grass at a time whe...