2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by DevilDawg81 » September 20th, 2021, 7:29 pm

Just dropped Urea as part of aggressive nitrogen regimen.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by edslawn » September 21st, 2021, 8:36 am

Sprayed 3 gallons of Bifen IT around 2 acres of my property to help with mosquitos. They were really bad this year. Anyone else have problems this year?

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by JeffreyLebowski » September 21st, 2021, 4:32 pm

Dropped a little over .75 lbs/1000 N (Oceangro).

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Dishwasher » September 23rd, 2021, 9:37 am

Patched holes left by a tree crew with topsoil and seeded with Scotts KBG because it's what I could find on short notice. Watered.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by bolson32 » September 23rd, 2021, 10:50 am

Sprayed Triclopyr for fall weed control.


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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » September 23rd, 2021, 3:24 pm

Dropped KH and BLSC. Some pretty good thunderstorms are supposed to roll through here tonight.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Aether » September 25th, 2021, 8:05 am

Mulch mowed with a sharp blade and put down LESCO 18-24-12 starter fertilizer.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by MorpheusPA » September 25th, 2021, 9:46 am

Dropped half the October feeding in EcoScraps. It didn't flow well, hence the half...

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by zhotster » September 30th, 2021, 6:26 pm

Dropping urea weekly starting tonight. Will also spray some Triclopyr on some minor weeds.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » October 1st, 2021, 2:51 pm

Hit violets with second app of CCO. Those SOB'S are tough!

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Aether » October 3rd, 2021, 10:24 am

Mulch mowed and sprayed non-selective herbicide on various weeds.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by MorpheusPA » October 3rd, 2021, 3:30 pm

Mowed another 20% of the gardens into it. I don't count it as a feeding (although technically it's 4-1-2 by dry weight), but it's a lot of organic mass...

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Masbustelo » October 3rd, 2021, 5:42 pm

Ran my little orbit sled type sprinkler here and there all day long. It does a good job as long as I have good water pressure.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by bolson32 » October 3rd, 2021, 9:45 pm

Dropped 19-19-19 yesterday, Should have time to winterize with urea yet after the stall.

I also found a company with an Aeravator to do about a 1/4 of my lawn that was extremely compacted and REALLY bumpy. I'm not entirely sure on the results yet, I'll give it a week and report back.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by olde_fart » October 4th, 2021, 6:03 pm

I grew a lawn. Ok maybe it took more than a day :)

I am a new member here, recommended by a member on a tractor forum. Our front lawn was a 1/2 acre of weeds. Not touched in 30 years. I finally decided to replace it but after getting pricing from contractors decided to do it myself.

I have a 38hp Kubota and a box blade. I ended up buying a rotary tiller and drag harrow. My 1st stop was to the CT Agricultural Experimental Station where I dropped off soil samples. The manager there then recommended the type of seeds based on how much sun there was and how much maintenance time I wanted to put in after. They were great.


I use glyphosate on the entire lawn. It took 2 applications to kill these scalloped weeds.

box blading:

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I removed many buckets full of rocks. The box blade was great in harvesting them and really ripping the lawn. Based on the soil analysis I used the box to spread 2000lbs of limestone and 200lbs of fertilizer. Then it was time to till

The tiller did an awesome job in pulverizing the soil

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I spread almost 100lbs of seed with a drop seeder and then used a drag harrow to cover the seed with a small amount of soil

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by olde_fart » October 4th, 2021, 7:41 pm

My new lawn - finished (well I h=guess that's never) - 2nd part of my post

Now its 3 weeks after seeding. There are some spots that are coming in slowly. I blame that on the weight of the tractor compacting the soil. They are slowing filling in though

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It was a great learning / still learning project. I only wish I had found this site before I started. From what I've seen there is a great amount of knowledge base here.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by edslawn » October 5th, 2021, 8:06 am

olde_fart wrote:
October 4th, 2021, 7:41 pm
My new lawn - finished (well I h=guess that's never) - 2nd part of my post

Now its 3 weeks after seeding. There are some spots that are coming in slowly. I blame that on the weight of the tractor compacting the soil. They are slowing filling in though

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It was a great learning / still learning project. I only wish I had found this site before I started. From what I've seen there is a great amount of knowledge base here.
Looks great and welcome to the forum!

For the soil compaction issues search for BLSC (short for bestlawn soil conditioner).

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Masbustelo » October 6th, 2021, 9:30 pm

I went out in the dark a little bit ago to drop some urea. I saw that there is a 50% chance of rain at 3am. A fanatical person would have done it at 3am in the rain.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Green » October 7th, 2021, 8:42 pm

Opened up my new (to me) bottle of "Sonata" biofungicide (similar to Serenade, but targets different diseases) and started spraying at the 3oz per thousand rate.

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Re: 2021: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by MorpheusPA » October 8th, 2021, 5:37 pm

Fed it with 3 bags of EcoScraps (the other half of the October feeding) and spot-sprayed a few weeds. And found a clump of P. annua I'd missed. I got out the mini-nukes and launched them from orbit...

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