2017: What did you do on your lawn today?

[PSU4ME]

Laid 500# of alfalfa pellets today, 15-20# per k sqft. Also put down the second batch of prodiamine at the 5 month rate.

Funny thing when you put mark it blue in with prodiamine it turns green and is if no help!!!

Still need to spot spray or pull some of the weeds sneaking through

[RockinMyLawn]

Cleaned the inside of car on Sunday after running to the beach Saturday.
Lolly gagged around making excuses not to cut the lawn.
Finally got out there @ 4pm & did a 4" cut, trim, weeded the beds & raked up some elm tree leaves that had fallen already.
Around 6PM - decided to try out some shampooing for the first time.
Math deficiencies caught up to me & emptied the J&J Baby shampoo with only 1/2 the yard conditioned.

[Billybob]

Been applying Serenade every 7-10 days. Worked like a charm. Been a hot/ wet summer here in NJ.

[PeterS]

Couldn't handle looking at crabgrass coming up through the fescue anymore, so I got up really early and sprayed with quinclorac + MSO. Hoping injury to the TTTF will be minimal, if any. Worst case, I'm overseeding again this fall so I'll deal with it then.

[bpgreen]

Did some sprinkler repair.

[Powhatan]

Received ~2" of moderate rain so far this past 24 hours. That's the most within a short period since May. More rain forecasted for later in the week ... the dry soil and Summer dormant tall fescue is just loving it

Hand pulled various young weeds, mostly lespedeza. I've been pulling weeds when I see them since June, so pulling a little at a time every so often is not a difficult task.

I'm also finalizing my Fall overseed plans for a Sep 2 target date: aerate, amend ~1/4" Black Kow compost, Southern Belle Fescue with Hybrid Bluegrass seed, and 13-25-12 starter fertilizer.

[Green]

Yesterday evening, got almost 0.2 inches of rain. Topped that off with a bit more water on the part of the low-input area where I had sprayed Hydretain.

Hand-trimmed with shears, and blew off hell-strip areas along sidewalk. Mowed entire side front.

Finally removed sticky bands from trees.

Scalped small triangular area behind deck down low and dethatched in prep for overseed.

Currently trying to go mostly herbicide-free for a period of time, especially in the low-input area (except for Tenacity, Velocity, and the odd RU painting) for environmental reasons...so hand-pulling and cutting down weeds every time I'm out.

[smast16]

I sat and wondered where August went.

[mitten]

I sprayed Serenade on my '16 reno rust. I've been doing this every 10 days for the past month and a half but unfortunately it's not helping.

[RockinMyLawn]

Picked up my online order of Mobile 1 Motor oil from Walmart.
On way out, the hair care aisle was right by the door.
So I made a slight detour & wandered over to the shampoo area to pick up two 30 oz bottles of Suave Daily Clarifying shampoo for $1.94 each.

[PSU4ME]

Picked up my online order of Mobile 1 Motor oil from Walmart.
On way out, the hair care aisle was right by the door.
So I made a slight detour & wandered over to the shampoo area to pick up two 30 oz bottles of Suave Daily Clarifying shampoo for $1.94 each.

I get M1 from Walmart as well, so cheap and my ecoboost ruins it in 3K miles so I change it often!

[Green]

Had the irrigation guy here today to install sprinklers in the hell strips so I don't have to hand water as often...every other day in the hot weather. The new setup will also reduce water waste on the street and sidewalk.

Put down seed on area behind deck that needed overseeding. Used 0.25 lb of Firecracker LS over .056K area. I was shooting for about 3.5-4 lbs/K, but the seed is 5 years old, so a little extra is probably a good thing. I don't want the grass too dense right away, because it'll thin out from crowding in that area.

Put down a thin coat of paper/wood mulch on most of the area, hand-watered, and then hooked up the irrigation for the area, consisting of 2 spray heads on spike bases connected to a timer. Starting with 5 minutes of watering, every 6 hours, and will adjust as needed after seeing how it goes the first day or so.

Mowed main front, and dug up a few clumpy mushrooms ("Hen of the Woods"?).

[bauer time]

Prodiamine .75 tbsp/K

Trying my hand at putting down a pre-M instead of overseeding and using Tenacity. I need to stop this Poa Annua, I had way too much this year.

[bpgreen]

Saw that some of the blue grama has started to germinate. The seed company said to keep it moist for 3 weeks, to make sure as much as possible germinates, so I'll do that, but I was surprised to see some popping up so soon. Some areas are probably going to be a few days late because of a broken sprinkler head that meant that one section didn't get any water for a while.

I'll be happy if I get fair germination and don't need to water next year. Blue grama greens up later than other grasses, but stays green in the heat of the summer longer and with less water than even the cool season natives that are currently dominating the lawn. It's too bad it only spreads via seed and tillering and not rhizomes.

[HoosierLawnGnome]

Adjusted sprinklers, applied MAP and a little urea to hopefully recover some as temps cool a bit.

[Green]

Did some watering, including hand watering hell strips, borders, and areas that were worked on.
Dropped a little Firecracker LS TTTF seed on the disturbed areas.

This morning, watered main front and side for one hour (half inch), and side front for a total of 40 min broken up into 4 cycles with 50 minutes in between.

Turned off all heads on that zone today, except for the two new sprays and the two rotors that were moved. Will be running it for 5 min x 4 tomorrow morning starting at 7AM to keep everything moist.

[Powhatan]

Mowed 1/2" lower than normal in preparation for Sep 2 overseed. I'll mow another 1/2" lower next week.

The recent rainfall perked up my Summer dormant tall fescue. Still has some brown and bare areas. Not bad for being new home construction turf that I sowed at the end of Winter earlier this year. I only irrigated ~1/2" twice during July's dry and hot 90-100F temps.

looking from opposite sides of back yard.

July - dry and hot

August - after rainfall, and recent mow

[Green]

Yesterday: Also sprayed PGR on disturbed areas and entire hell-strips so I don't have to mow them for at least a week and the grass can start to re-root.

Local lawn company fertilized 2 neighbors.

Today: Spot-treated using some Thiophanate-methyl over the disturbed areas on the side front, to prevent a disease outbreak. There is fungal pressure there, and I don't want full-blown disease from all the watering. I did not apply any to the hell-strips, and I won't unless I start seeing signs of disease there.

Mowed back and low-input area.

[RockinMyLawn]

Came home from work.
Saw the forecast called for rain overnight & all tomorrow.
Pull out my new 30 oz.bottle Suave clarifying shampoo & washed my lawn.

[bpgreen]

Changed my sprinklers from 8:00, 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 to 9:00, 2:00, 7:00 and from 7 minutes to 5, now that most of the grama has sprouted.

I'll probably switch to 2x per day, but longer in another week. After that, I'll have to monitor and water based on how it's doing.