I never had any success with chemical fungicides. If you read the label and follow the directions perfectly, you'll find that the only day of the year that the application conditions are right in Texas is in January. Once I started using ordinary corn meal, all my fungus issues either went away or b...

That about sums it up for me.

Some of the San Antonio tea makers have tested their tea with and without tap water. Tap water seems to kill half the microbes relative to rain water. At least you're getting the other half.

I'm pretty sure someone here thought you faked the colors on the Showcase. The little girls shorts were supposedly the give away.

I'll be in Philly this summer. We're making a Revolutionary War tour.

I wouldn't worry about it either, but if it bothers you, the stuff that instantly clears chlorine/chloramine in aquariums works fine. Wally World has it cheap. It's a drop or two and you're good to go. I maintain 150g of aquariums, and I just use some old aquarium water, which has no chlorine/chlor...

turf toes, I know you have been accused of faking your pictures before, and I have believed you before; but this time...I don't know. These last two pix really look like a modern cultivar of Astro-Turf.

It's already several hundred feet deep so that's covered, too. But that doesn't matter because I can't drive a stake deeper than 18 inches anywhere on my lot. At that point it is solid limestone. Having bedrock near the surface makes for a very stable house, though. And here I thought my 3,500 was r...

How about the aroundtheyard.com XM Radio channel? All Bestlawn all the time! I ride 8 hours at a time going from here to there and back again. At least XM allows me to listen to both kinds of music (country and western).

1. Filtering the tea is the most important thing about using any sprayer. I filtered the tea through pantyhose to keep the nozzle from clogging. I never did get it perfect and resorted to pouring the tea out using a watering can. 2. If you see any open bags at any of the stores, smell them. If it do...

Our calcium is generally 1,000,000 parts per million. I don't see a lot of dandelions in the neighborhood but occasionally I do. They must have adulterated their limestone with clay.

It would be nice to know much more specifically where they live, but for this question it probably is not critical. Altitude in SoCal ranges from -50 to +10,000 feet. Climate changes from cloudy every day until 11am, to partial rain forest, to arid cool desert and arid hot desert. Soil ranges from d...

That's right and here's why frequent watering is a problem. Seeds including grass seed, weed seed, salad sprouts, flower seed, veggie seed, etc., needs nearly continual, even moisture to sprout. If you withhold water (watering infrequently) then the seed coating dries out and does not sprout. Howeve...

Watering The builder used sandy lohm (light brown dirt) for the dirt put on top of clay. It's about 4" to 6" of sandy lohm before you hit clay. There are also rocks mixed into the sandy lohm and mixed into the clay. For my sprinkler system, it takes 2 hours to get 1" of water on the lawn. The new g...

Brown.

On a separate topic, I really want a super dense grass that probably will take some time given the shape it is in (not too bad but this property was foreclosed).. If you follow the Bermuda Bible and don't do anything else, then it will take some time - probably not until mid to late June. :razz: Se...

Mine is more like camouflage green with lots of olive drab. I'm raking leaves for the first time in my life to see if I can change that.

Who top dresses with soil? Golf courses top dress with sand. They even have a very cool attachment to a JD Gator so they can drive over the area and it flings the sand out and up so that it doesn't have to be raked in. But golf courses don't have curbs to deal with. People who watch the various spor...

This really applies to all lawns but I'm posting it in Cool Season because the grass involved is mostly cool season. I've never been a fan of top dressing but I've never had an example of what can happen like this. It's a rental so it usually looks worse than this. Recent rains made it look pretty g...

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Look for a Weed Hound tool at your local hardware store or nursery. The cost about $20 and will really speed up your dandelion removal. You get to stand up, step on them, twist their necks, and pluck them out of the ground with the roots. Bermuda is one of the types of grass that spreads by itself a...