Nice working weather today. Warm and low humidity. I got 4,400 sf seeded with 16.4 lbs of seed, and covered it with mulching pellets.I used a northern blend from SS Store (20% each of Midnight, Diva, and Everglade Kentucky bluegrass, and 20% Zodiac chewings fescue and 20% Fiesta 4 perennial ryegrass...

Feels good to have spreading complete. Not saying 5 yards of compost is an uber amount, but with the way the weather has been for the past 4-5 days, oppressively hot and humid, it did feel like a challenge. It came to 50 wheel barrow loads over 6,200 sf. The grassy area went much slower than the gly...

Spreading compost is going ok. I’m turning the surface into a slurry of compost, pulled up dead grass, and some soil. It’s looking pretty rich. However, the weather is not cooperating. This morning was a sweat-athon, oppressively sunny at 94 with high humidity. Then rainy with thunder and lightning....

tlinden. Your youtube video inspired me to make the pilgrimage to NEFCO .

A little bit of work getting out there, but what a great deal!

Today is a wash out, so a good time for a road trip. 2 hours round trip including loading up 16 bags. I wish I got 20… https://s10.postimg.cc/9bvn8g7r9/160810_002.jpg Got 5 yards of compost. A little expensive at $36/yard, but looks like good quality. I guess part of it is made from cranberry husks ...

Just got back from a vacation, hard to remember what I was doing… Before I left, I seeded two trial areas within lawn, 50sf each, for a residual dimension test. Also in pic background, I nuked the water sprouts from some med sized oaks that were part of the clearing process. Also hit some remaining ...

Thanks ken-n-nancy! I appreciate that. You can learn a lot from a good “non-answer” :good: . Thanks Paul! That’s awesome! I was hoping to keep this project on track. I was thinking about this on my way home, so I picked up some compost (bags for now) as to do a few test areas. Seeing how I have twen...

I used Lesco Dimension pre emergent this spring (split application on 3/22 and 5/14). With an estimated seed down date of 8/20, that would give me 14 weeks of dwell time. The label says 12 weeks minimum before an overseed, but now that I read the fine print, it says something like “assuming cultural...

Today I'm applying my third round of glyphosate (been four weeks of fallowing now, started July 4th weekend). https://s31.postimg.cc/ssnwruzmv/160730_001.jpg Zoysia. It’s a tough nut. I got 99.9% killed... https://s32.postimg.cc/cmq4v7nm9/160730_002.jpg but…I’m still seeing some green in some scatte...

That look's good! Did you topdress with peat moss?

So far, I’m really liking this new tool. Yep, wife is calling me ghost busters… https://s31.postimg.cc/b22p58f7b/160723.jpg I have a Dawn solution in there now. Hitting some moss patches. Fun using this with non haz material, especially on a super hot day like today. I would have been miserable if I...

Thanks LoneRanger! Besides getting some practice, I was hoping it would be beneficial.

Planning ahead for this fall, I picked up a bag of urea 46-0-0. Seeing how concentrated it is, and inexpensive, I was thinking of doing a calibration test to get a method for dropping this accurately. Would there be any harm/bad consequences doing this out on my fallowing area now? I got a month bef...

Nine days since glyphosate ap. The northern mix just toggled off and died (looks like my zoysia lawn off season). https://s32.postimg.cc/mbgweh6ip/160712_001.jpg The zoysia is a slower kill. It’s gradually dimming out, each day a little bit more. I’m really glad I’m renovating this way. My objective...

Got the yard scalped today. I brought the deck down to ~1 1/8”. I have a sub inch setting, but I was getting some soil “burnishing”. Not as much at 1 1/8”. The grade is fairly decent, as I’m piggy backing some prep work done last year. Still, I marked the sprinklers. Interesteing that the zoysia is ...

Thanks all! You guys are right! I wasn’t sure because I haven’t been seeing the pink sclerotia, but sure enough I could see it with a magnifying glass. I suppose that’s a call for more nitrogen. I’ve put 1.3N/M already this year (with 3 feedings/both synth and org), and a late feeding last year arou...

I got these isolated blemishes on last year’s renovation (9 months old done by a landscaper). They aren't big and there is not a lot of them. I'd say about a dozen of these over 2k. The dead grass has a pinkish tint to it. A little bit of a frog eye also, but the grass around it looks fine. https://...

The second day of spraying is going better. I switched the red flat fan tip out with a different one. They look identical, however this one is coarser. I’m getting a better/wider throw from it. It is not as even as the other one, heavier at the ends and light in the middle, so I’ve been just overlap...

I upgraded the wand to my smith 2 gallon sprayer and calibrated it. Thanks to dfw_pilot for some great info in equipment forum. https://s31.postimg.cc/4pq7mq7c7/160703_001.jpg It was breezy today, but not as much as yesterday. We’re getting some terrific weather this week end, but with it comes the ...

ongoing 2016 game plan: 3/3___ results from soil test 3/22___dolomite lime__fast acting_@6#/M 3/22___Lesco Dimension 0.10% plus fertilizer__19-0-0__.4N/M (@2.06#/M) (5.13% slow release urea) 4/24___Bayer “All in One” weed killer__Non-Ionic Surfactant (1 tsp/gal)__dye marker__spot spray 5/14___second...