Wait. These are pictures of your lawn looking bad? I don't think I've ever had my lawn looking that good. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if that's bad compared with what it was, let's fix it. You mentioned getting a lot of rain. How much rain did you get and when did it last rain? Gra...

I think you'd have a bit of trouble with KBG where you are. It might make it, but TTTF will do better in the heat. The rhizomatous fescue doesn't spread as much as KBG, but it does spread, and it may cost less in the long run if you don't need to overseed as often.

One other thing to mention about a foliar iron spray (it may have already been mentioned, but I skimmed the posts) is that you don't want to spray when it's hot out. I think it's okay up to highs of around 80-85, but above that, it can cause leaf burning.

I use EDDHA iron chelate to help out individual plants that get chlorotic, but there's no way I'd try it on a lawn. It needs to be watered in almost immediately, and the dosages are usually given in tablespoons for individual plants. It would probably cost hundreds of dollars for a single applicatio...

I agree with the last comment that it doesn't look like fine fescue. Fine fescue is very aptly named. It's got very fine blades--about as thick as KBG from front to back, but almost round. I'm trying to decide what to do. I'm still seeing how the other grass choices turn out and I'm also going to gi...

Never let the truth get in the way of a good rumor.

The testing that found the lead level was done before the garden was planted. The amount of lead found is lower than what would be expected in many urban gardens because of the lead from leaded gasoline,

That's looking really good. Congrats.

I'm finding the same thing in my back yard, where I planted sheep fescue and a little creeping red fescue. The fine fescues handle drought very well, but don't do so well with heat. When it gets hot, they go dormant.

It rained here on June 24, so we've had a rainy year, too (it's all relative). I've only had to water three times so far (although I have some areas that are dormant or semi-dormant).

Actually, I don't think the temperature becomes a problem until it goes above 165. I've had mine going at 165 for a week or so, but made sure I turned it more often when it was that hot so it didn't go any hotter. My bin is a bit bigger than Morph's, but still much less than the oft-quoted "minimum"...

I went to Philly almost every week for about 3 years and never made it to Pat's or Gino's. I made it to the one in the Reading Terminal Market a couple of times, though and that was supposed to be one of the descendants of the original also (although I've heard it's not as authentic). Where's Campo'...

I've never seen a bag of chelated iron that large. I usually see it in about 1 lb containers. Do you know offhand what kind of chelate that is? I know they make EDDHA, but I can't imagine they'd sell it in that large a bag (if they do, I'm going to have to find some). I think the EDDHA is 138, not 3...

I once got desperate enough to pour a quart of muriatic acid (something like 20% HCL) in a 5 gallon bucket and dump it on the ground around my maple tree. I used up a total of 2 gallons of muriatic acid that way over the course of the summer. I'd hate to try that on a larger area, but it seemed to h...

You may want to core aerate where you've got the thatch. I think you've got a turf hound, right? You can use that to poke some holes through the thatch and also mix some soil from below to help it start to decay.

andy10917 wrote:I thought that the "Big Three" were "dirt", "beer", and "Milorganite".

Used beer is a source of nitrogen.

Holy smokes, that looks fantastic! Good work!

That looks like something I got hit with this year because my lawn was thinner (on purpose). I've been dealing with it using my thumb and forefinger--it pulls so easily I don't bother with the weed hound.

"didn't use any inocculant"

There's no need, unless you've got a bunch of money sitting around that you don't want.

It's not just Colorado. Laws against rain barrels are fairly common in the west because of the way the water rights are handed out. There are usually clauses that say something along the lines that you can't interfere with the flow of the water. They were written to stop people from building dams to...

Tall fescue is well known for needing less water than KBG. Unfortunately, it only uses about 10%-25% less water than KBG. And if conditions aren't right, it can require more water than KBG. Tall fescue's drought resistance is due to a deep root system. So if your soil is such that it can't develop t...