2023: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today (Cool Season)

[DevilDawg81]

Mowed everything that wasn’t under water

[fun4me2]

Spot sprayed WBG yesterday.
I see a little clover and oxalis so CCO will be next.
No rain since beginning of May.
Fleeting shower at the moment.
I'm hoping for some rainy days so I can drop my fertilizer.
The lawn needs it badly!
Seedheads popping up however.

[edslawn]

Mowed today and it seems that I need to cut about every 3-4 days. The grass is healthy and thick. Unfortunately, I'm also dealing with quite a bit of poa in my back yard in some often wet areas. I know a "guy" who may be able to acquire some velocity, so we'll see. Sadly the yard looks great except for the light spots.

[pristinegreen75]

Mowing every 3-4 days. Been working on terminating Poa A plants but can't really see them with the billions of KBG seedheads.

[DevilDawg81]

Rainy day so on my lunch break I cleaned out the mower deck and sharpened the blades for the 3rd time this year.

[R2k]

Spent yesterday calibrating my new backpack sprayer. Sprayed my first PGR app and FAS app today. Excited to see how that goes.

Got out in the veggies garden and put down some mulch and Gardentone.

On 5/22 I get to take soil cores and ship'em to Logan Labs. I've been waiting a month, so I am very excited to get the results back and get to talkin' shop about soil.

[Aether]

Mulched mowed, put down GrubEx and remaining spring split app granular Dimension preM.

[DevilDawg81]

Mowed the lawn and sprayed BLSC on entire yard

[bpgreen]

I broke down and bought a battery powered mower for those times when I let the grass get too long (like now) for the manual reel mower.

The guy at home depot took care to point out that the one I was looking at was not propelled, so I'd have to push it myself. When I described my current mower, he was less concerned.

Charged the battery and mowed the front and side yards.

[Chris Jacobie]

Spot sprayed some crabgrass and dandelions. New yard and no one put down pre-em

[R2k]

My first cut since 5/19. Sprayed some kelp too. Any day I'll get my soil cores and send'em off to Logan Labs.

[R2k]

Pulled those soil cores. Going to make soil slurries and test with my Hanna pH pen and see if the results match Logan Labs. Been a long month waiting to pull these cores. It takes a lot longer to pull cores than you'd think.

[R2k]

Follow-up - Mixed the soil cores thoroughly and made my slurries according to Hanna's directions. Tested each yard's soil twice with different scoops from the bags going to Logan Labs and both pH tests came within 300ths of each other. Doing direct soil testing with the Hanna pen tended to give me the distilled water pH and not the soil. Slurries seem accurate so far based on past Logan Labs tests.

Front yard came in at 6.6 pH and backyard at 7.1.

Did some watering too for some small first-year grass sections that were already stressed. I generally found while pulling coils that the soil is drying out but not bone dry yet.

[R2k]

I've done Logan Labs a few times and thought I needed one cup of soil...nope! Takes two cups. Had to go out and get more cores today.

Retested with the Hanna pH pen with the new and old soils being homogenized.

Front 6.7
Back 6.9

Not sure why the back came down two-tenths as I tried to evenly pull cores, but as long as Logan Labs matches, at least I know the pen works and my testing process works.

You find out a lot about your soil when you probe around everywhere. I have a fair amount of rocks in general throughout the yards, but especially around sidewalks/driveway/curbs...made a separate thread in the soil forum. I also kept slicing into earthworms with the soil probe. Glad they're there though. Happened a dozen times.

[DevilDawg81]

Mowed, ran weed eater, watered 3 trees we’ve recently planted.

[zhotster]

I've been working on my sprinkler system, had a fence installed late last year causing a re-think of the sprinkler layout . We've had a lot of rain so I haven't needed it but a dry spell is upon us. Going to water in some Milo this morning in the front yard and work on the sprinkler system in the back.

[Turk]

Got down some 20-0-3 and Dimension "weed and feed" before the rains started.

[R2k]

Put down some Milo, SOP, and Hydretain (using up what I've already purchased).

Watering it all in.

[edslawn]

Hot and dry... had the sprinklers out the last few days.

[MorpheusPA]

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% by the time they get anywhere near here.