2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by northeastlawn » March 18th, 2018, 8:13 pm

My lawn in S.E. mass was all thawed out, and I had no problem getting my soil samples last week. Then 2' of snow hit us and its been a high of 30deg ever since.

Before the snow the grass seemed like it was starting to green and I swear a few buds on the Forsythia were just starting to form. I am thinking nothing much will be happening until like April this year, but well see. Its nice to know what look for now.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by LouisvilleGrubber » March 19th, 2018, 9:27 am

I got the blades and mower tuned up and the first mow is complete. The grass is always a little taller than I think it will be on the first mow of the year. Some areas of the yard (shade) are still dormant. Dropped my Pre-M which was Prodiamine packaged in with 13-0-4. Not ideal, but that's what was available at the local garden center. I don't think a little extra N will kill me, especially since I missed the final app last season. I have some seed down in certain areas so they did not get treated.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by RichS » March 19th, 2018, 5:14 pm

I have Copper, Borax, Zinc, Iron, leftover Urea/other, and a source for SOP. I also have soil temps in the upper 30's and a forecast for 8-10 inches of snow tomorrow. So what I did today will probably be the same as I do for another week or two - planning and waiting.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by northeastlawn » March 19th, 2018, 5:31 pm

RichS wrote:
March 19th, 2018, 5:14 pm
I have Copper, Borax, Zinc, Iron, leftover Urea/other, and a source for SOP. I also have soil temps in the upper 30's and a forecast for 8-10 inches of snow tomorrow. So what I did today will probably be the same as I do for another week or two - planning and waiting.
In hind sight, Im glad I took my soils ample. At least that is out of the way, I would have been waiting until April to get that done.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by j rockford » March 19th, 2018, 8:16 pm

Put down prodiamine 65 wdg. First time using this approach, fingers crossed. Worked out to just under 1 tablespoon per thousand. Which i believe will get me until june/july. Crabgrass has not been an issue for a few years even when i skipped pre em a couple years beack for the season. Saw no poa thanks to last fall granular app. Fingers crossed


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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by Green » March 19th, 2018, 10:21 pm

northeastlawn wrote:
March 19th, 2018, 5:31 pm
In hind sight, Im glad I took my soils ample. At least that is out of the way, I would have been waiting until April to get that done.
You're lucky. I will not be able to do mine until April. Between snow cover, rain/saturated ground (and frozen soil in the back still), it's not in my immediate future.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by RichS » March 20th, 2018, 9:34 am

northeastlawn wrote:
March 19th, 2018, 5:31 pm
In hind sight, Im glad I took my soils ample. At least that is out of the way, I would have been waiting until April to get that done.
Same here. I beat the rush, already have almost all of the material, and am ready to go. Now Mother Nature just needs to co-operate. Winter Storm Warning on the first day of Spring just isn't right.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by andy10917 » March 20th, 2018, 9:48 am

Bizarre forecasting for here: on Weather.com, the local forecast is 1"-3" tomorrow and 1"-3" tomorrow night. ON THE SAME PAGE is the NWS Winter Storm Warning which says 10"-14" with spots of 16"+.

Just another day...

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by LouisvilleGrubber » March 20th, 2018, 10:04 am

andy10917 wrote:
March 20th, 2018, 9:48 am
Bizarre forecasting for here: on Weather.com, the local forecast is 1"-3" tomorrow and 1"-3" tomorrow night. ON THE SAME PAGE is the NWS Winter Storm Warning which says 10"-14" with spots of 16"+.

Just another day...
Those storms usually pass through KY on their way up to you all, Of course, we usually get only get a fraction of the snow the NE gets and we are expecting 2 inches tonight here so...

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Post by HoosierLawnGnome » March 20th, 2018, 2:04 pm

Picking up fertilizer and an HOC guage bar for the triplex

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by Casutherland » March 20th, 2018, 2:49 pm

Tornado watches and warnings yesterday, and a dusting of snow tonight...just another day in TN. Literally every time I go put out seed in my bare areas and cover it with peat moss..we get a freaking heavy down pour and it all washes off...-_-

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by Green » March 20th, 2018, 9:06 pm

andy10917 wrote:
March 20th, 2018, 9:48 am
Bizarre forecasting for here: on Weather.com, the local forecast is 1"-3" tomorrow and 1"-3" tomorrow night. ON THE SAME PAGE is the NWS Winter Storm Warning which says 10"-14" with spots of 16"+.

Just another day...
Yup, you apparently caught them in the process of an update. One minute it was predicted to be 3-8 inches here, and then it was 12-16. I have a feeling they won't know for sure until it's well underway. That's been the pattern with these March storms this year.
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This evening, I picked up sticks and raked leaves/fluffed up grass on the side front and hell strips. This has to be the 4th time I've raked that area this Winter (or Spring, since it's been Spring for a few hours now...whatever it is). Just crazy that there are so many leaves this year. I guess they're coming from what's still left on Oak trees (not much) and a neighbor about 500 feet away who didn't clean up their leaves this Fall.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by HoosierLawnGnome » March 21st, 2018, 9:42 pm

My neighbor posted a forecast of a foot on Saturday here. We got 3 ijnches last night.

By evening it was upper 40s and all melted away.

I applied priodiamine at less than half rate. On 1.4 acres. With a 4 gallon backpack sprayer. 7 fill ups. Skipped my overseeded areas.

I can't see yellow on the forsythia I use normally but I will be travelling all next week and have much to do beforehand. Things are waking up for sure. I also need to get PGR out before I leave.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by LouisvilleGrubber » March 22nd, 2018, 10:17 am

We got about 4 inches at our house, but locally as much as 8" yesterday. Very heavy, wet snow. I lost several branches as well as a significant part of my beautiful dogwood.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by Green » March 22nd, 2018, 7:05 pm

It ended up being a couple of inches of snow, and all the new snow melted already. Daffodils have been starting to come up for more than a week now. I inspected the front lawn today and started strategizing.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by HoosierLawnGnome » March 23rd, 2018, 1:28 am

I tried to fill in some low spots. Planted some knockout roses.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by Green » March 23rd, 2018, 7:56 pm

Fixed some damage in the upper back that I think was due to freeze-thaw cycles and melting snow flow. I added a little bit of Bullseye TTTF seed into the damaged lines before closing them up and stepping on them to compact.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by bauer time » March 24th, 2018, 1:06 pm

Hoping some of this snow melts today with the warmer and sunnier weather. Forsythia bushes have yellow nubs on them, its almost time to drop pre-M.

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by HoosierLawnGnome » March 24th, 2018, 2:11 pm

Image :(

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Re: 2018: What did you do on your lawn today?

Post by bauer time » March 24th, 2018, 5:16 pm

HoosierLawnGnome wrote:
March 24th, 2018, 2:11 pm
Image :(
Winter is not going quietly this year.

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