Yo Yo temperatures in NY/NJ

[dan10]

Anyone here in NY and NJ noticing their lawns are not as growing as fast the past few weeks compared to prior years ? I have not seen the big spring flush this year.

It was 52 degrees and 2 inches of rain this past Saturday and 90 degrees yesterday.

[Setzer1994]

Yeah it's all over the map (here in CT too). I've noticed the yesterday's heat helped with some green up.

Monday seems to be the next chance for rain, and I think I'm going to go ahead and drop some fert (type and amount tbd) to take advantage.

[PSU4ME]

I'm in MA and would agree that my lawn really didn't wake up as expected. I've got KBG and assume different grass act differently but I got in my first real mow on Tuesday.

[dan10]

April 10, 2016 picture ...I am way behind this year.

[kbgfarmer]

Same here in WI. Had some very cool weeks in may and a few hot days this week. Plenty of rain in spring however. Keep waiting for the spring flush everyone talks about. I attributed the very slow growth to my decreased spring n fertilization compared to previous years but guess I'm not the only one noticing it. On another note my KBG has started exhibiting seedheads like crazy the past few days.

[MorpheusPA]

Ditto. My posted images on my blog thingy just don't look that great, really: http://thegreengreengrassofhome.blogspot.com/

It's been a weird year. The gardens went in a bit late due to frosts and generally crappy cold weather, then immediately got blasted by 90 degrees (I'm showing 95° in the garden as of right this instant). I'm running occasional cool-downs with the irrigation system, but the zinnia are taking a severe beating and losses are very high at around 25 plants out of 700 this year.