Then it does seem unlikely you're related; he's Ukranian via the wilds of Maryland.

You can certainly use another carrier, although we haven't tested them, but anything granular really should work just fine.

I'm watching mine dance on the edge of dormancy as we're now 26 days with no appreciable rain. There are 3 major cities with low rainfall this month, mine is #2 at 0.26" in May...the beginning of May. I broke down and watered and it's running now. There's a 30% chance of showers which will fall to 0...

Sorry for the delay. Work's insane. They're literally throwing awards with money at us to keep us happy. Huh. With that last name, you might be distantly related to my husband. For the landscape bed, you just gave a literal definition of "acidic, neutral, neutral, low phosphorus, high phosphorus, av...

Sorry for the delay here, work's been...irregular. At least I got an award out of it for not throwing a fit.

29-0-4 would go at about 4 pounds per thousand. 10-10-10 goes at 10 pounds per thousand.

I'm going to figure that I do better calculations in my head for far less money. When the grass wilts, I water. My yard has complicated shapes, handled by setting half circles at the correct spots, quarter circles at the correct spots, and so on. And similarly, I never water if it's windy--another m...

There's not much you can do, really. If you want to lift the sod, dig the soil, sift the rocks, and put it back (replacing it with new soil--not potting soil as that's organics and they'll just rot, you'll want to match your soil type), you could, though. It's a lot of work. I have a burn point at t...

Plus the delivery because my butt is superlatively lazy lately. This happens when Tuesday rolls around and "Oh, did I forget to mention our one entire manufacturing facility is having an audit today? I didn't know either, sorry. Can you support it? Great, thanks." On the up side, for payment I got a...

That's a clay loam, not clay, bordering a sandy clay loam and pure loam, not at all a bad place to be and not at all unmanageable. Magnesium is a tad higher than I would like to see for that soil with potassium a bit lower, probably making it tight and water-refusing, so I'd go for the soap/sodium l...

Home Depot here is $25, which is the top end. Walmart and Meijer it goes for $17. $17 delivered from Walmart for free if you buy 3 bags or more...I jumped all over it. So happy there is finally some competition for HD/Lowes. Rural King sells it for $15, but it's quite a far drive. Thanks for this, ...

You just gave us the answer, I think. 1.5" doesn't hold a lot of water, and hotter weather taps it fast. You can either water a little bit very often, let it go yellow, or work on that clay (that probably isn't clay, but a compact silt; I'd have to see an isolated soil test of it). I'd suggest BLSC ...

It does vary. Crabgrass is a summer sprouter; May to July. Most sedges sprout in late May to June and, further north, a bit later. Creeping Charlie doesn't get going for me until June. So I need to keep the shield up through Independence Day, after which it can start to drop, although I'll still get...

Kelp is an add-on, not a primary, and tends to do small things. I note that use in the garden leads to better blossoms than otherwise, but double-blind testing isn't possible as I'm the one doing the application. However, plants that are treated do notably better than those that are not. At this poi...

Yeah, play it by ear. However, yes, Kentucky-31 is pretty bulletproof, so short, tall, it should do pretty well. If you like 4" tall, great. It'll tolerate periods of drought extremely well; water it when it starts to turn gray. It really only requires 2-3 pounds of nitrogen per year, maximum.

Picture me saying slowly, "Maybe." Get a dry spell in there and no, it's not. Decay will slow. I'm smelling a weather shift on the wind as we move from La Nina to neutral to El Nino, so I can't predict this summer at all. Post-seeding, you'll really need to wait at least six, eight weeks, at least i...

The water rate was a little low; I'd expect to see this around an inch of water, but for the front yard, if you're irrigating and haven't seen any bleaching, I'd say you're good to go. Sure, compress the timing if you like. The fertilizer really shouldn't have a major interaction with the gypsum if ...

1) Yes. I don't allow mine out on Monday mornings because of the Great Accident with the trash company. She starts at noon on Mondays. While I have my entire lawn set as one huge zone, if you do it zonally, I'm pretty sure you can set time per zone. Even if not, simply disallow mowing when theft is ...

8 foot, center to center, straight line. That seems to have height-limited them to around 25 feet, which for me, is just fine. That created a solid green wall, which is what I wanted. Closer will work, but will limit height more. Further away will also work, and lets the trees grow taller. 15' is re...

Seed won't mind standing water for a day or three or even five (in nature, it's not like it's completely stagnant, usually, across the entire section). Erosion...erosion would be a problem. Fortunately, the weather looks to clear this weekend and warm rapidly, so that's nice. I'm putting in the gard...

I'd be inclined to take that to a University extension office to find out. If you have a row of them, what killed one can now easily take out all of the others...

I wouldn't do it, personally. At this point, I'm waiting for the ground to de-saturate a bit before I even consider feeding. It's. Still, Raining. And it's not forecast to stop until the end of the week, so while the weather is fine to put in the gardens and has been for ten days, they're only about...