There is no perfect schedule for everyone, but don't let them fool you, we all more or less have a calendar in our heads we go by. We know more or less when we have to start thinking about pre-m, we also know more or less when we put down fertilizer in the fall. he problem is it's different for ever...

I have a few bad bare spots on the edges, that i have given up on and was going to plug them in the Fall. But just today I noticed some KBG rhizomes sticking out in August of all times, I havn't fertilized since June 30th because of the early heat wave. All the lawn has gotten is a lot of water and ...

What things can be done to encourage rhizomes to spread, and when do the rhizomes pop up the most ?

Morph your just showing off About a dozen ways to do it, here is the easiest non smart phone way. Take two stakes place them 10’ apart; then get a string line with a string level, tie the string between the two stakes and get the string level with the string level. Measure the height between the gro...

One thing I tried with a small section in the front off my house was to do two separate passes of each seed. I was putting down a TTTF blend, with some shade tolerant KBG. I spread the TTTF, then the KBG separately. I won't know until next May/June how much KBG took and how well it was dispersed by ...

[quote="Brian M" post_id=348576 time=1627599655 user_id=10076] I used JG Black beauty ultra for an over seed last year and am not happy with it. It did look pretty good in spring, however not so happy with it now. The amount of seed stalks that came up is crazy. They are still there but yellow/brown...

I have never heard of anything working on rose of Sharon seedlings. Your best bet is collecting the seed pods left behind after the flowers drop off.

Cutting them a few times usually does the trick, I wish I knew a pre-m or herbicide that worked on them.

As usual Morph is right on the money. Every summer I notice parts of the lawn start getting a little thin and some misc clover or other weed pops up. Often I’ll just pull it, or wait until the fall when it’s a bit cooler. When I do hit them I mix up 32oz spray bottles and keep them at the ready. I u...

Bay State Fertilizer is a municipal side project for the MWRA. It's not its own dedicated business, hence the weird way they handle cash. Between COVID and staffing issues its no wonder inventory fluctuates. Even before COVID they would often run out. To make matter worse the internet has told every...

Last I heard they were only selling by the ballot, which is 40 bags. I think a couple of people did place orders and pick them up. I can only carry 25 in my pickup, so the 40 bag limit takes me out. The local nursery used to sell it, they got some in late spring, but havn't gotten any new supply for...

[quote=turf_toes post_id=348417 time=1626657050 user_id=56] Poa annua will germinate when conditions are right. It doesn’t matter what the calendar says. It’s about temperature, moisture, etc. [/quote] I understand that; I was just wondering out loud, if we might end up getting to poa-a germination ...

I usually drop my pre-m about August, but with all this wet weather the poa-a seems to be randomly popping up in my lawn. I did a blanket 4oz/ac spray of Tenacity mid June just to hurt the poa-a a little and see where I stood, and nothing really stood out, I had a little bit of streaking where my sp...

Its really hard to tell; it could be disease, it could be poa-a or triv dying off. You probably need to take some closer pictures, but every summer I could never really tell what was turning brown. The KBG I wanted or the poa-a I was trying tonged rid of. Just be advised that poa-a will bounce back ...

[quote=MorpheusPA post_id=348319 time=1625952688 user_id=112]Option 3: Bluegrasses spread to fill gaps all by themselves. Feed and water correctly and those holes will close. I closed trashcan-lid-sized holes in my original reno in a single season. [/quote] I wish I had trash can size holes fill in ...

If you had a landscaper put down dos the first time. I'd just let them fix it with sod and change the irrigation. Its going be a lot of work to do a reno by hand if your not used to it. and it might never really match the sod you have. Hopefully the same landscaper doing the repair is the one who di...

Actually tilling in the soil spreads a lot weed seeds. Weeds like poa-a and triv can be very difficult to control once it pops up, no need to do anything that causes more of it. Was your lawn originally sod? If it wasn’t, the sod may not match, but keep in mind while we could help you through a Reno...

I remember seeing something once that suggested no more than 10% PR in any KBG mixture, since the PR is so aggressive. When I did my TTTF/KBG mix this year, I weighed out my TTTF and spread that, then weighed out my KBG and spread it out separate. If you have a large area its more work, but it does ...

I'm not sure this is the right place for this post, but it is about organic control of Mosquitoes in the yard. I read somewhere where Disney spays garlic to keep Mosquitoes away. There are a lot of people that spray some kind of garlic spray to keep Mosquitoes away and swear by it. Has anyone used a...

Anyone else "stepping away" from the milo for the year? :-) We have 3 days of 90deg, maybe some rain on the way, then mid 80's all next week. I am thinking I'm all done with the fertilizer and just focusing on keeping the lawn alive for the rest of the summer. It seems like two years in a row I am d...

71GTO: In regards to doing a full reno.... I had a single patch of original hell strip left over. It was growing great, with one small patch of something that kept coming up no matter how much PR and FF I over-seeded with. It just bothered me that such a small patch was so inconsistent. So this year...