2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Aether » June 25th, 2020, 6:45 am

Bag mowed diseased clippings. Sprayed organic fungicide.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » June 28th, 2020, 1:08 pm

Mowed 4 days ago. Yard looks like it grew .75-1.0! Still going gangbusters. No fert until Sept now. Normally cut at 3.5 for summer but with all this heat and humidity and very little rain I'm thinking of changing to 4 HOC. Probably won't cut til evening when sun drops lower besides my neighbor is having a party in his backyard today. Don't want to P... him off. Guess I'll just have to sit in my lawn chair with a Sam Adams Summer Ale and a A Romeo and Julieta Reserve Real cigar:):):):)

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by DevilDawg81 » June 28th, 2020, 3:56 pm

Mowed yesterday, went out to the back and weed whacked around the fence line and willow tree we planted 2 years ago. Dropped Milo on reno (read in reno section). I then re-tied the willow and stood it up more, replaced the rickety fence I had around it. Came back to the garage and mixed up 4 gallons of Crossbow and sprayed poison ivy.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Dargin » June 28th, 2020, 4:56 pm

Put out cans to measure rainfall.
Radar showing some nasty stuff rolling through very shortly.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by Aether » June 30th, 2020, 11:41 am

Mulch mowed.


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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » June 30th, 2020, 4:34 pm

Cut front fescue mix. watering 1 inch weekly but starting to show stress. Small dry patches. HOC 4". No rain in weeks here just a spritz here and there. Dargin could you send some this way:):) May have to water little more frequently or just let go dormant. Gonna try to keep the KBG in back yard green though.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by fun4me2 » July 1st, 2020, 4:48 pm

Listening to my lawn drinking all that water it got in the past 5 days. :amen:
Almost 2 1/2". :good:

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » July 1st, 2020, 8:05 pm

Yeah..Yeah....rub it in fun4me....not fun for me:):):)

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by ken-n-nancy » July 2nd, 2020, 11:17 am

Applied Serenade at 3.3oz/K to all KBG. Used Earthway S25 sprayer, applied about 1.5gal/Ksqft. Applied 28oz in 16gal of water to 8400sqft.

Lawn is looking pretty good. About the best it has looked so far this year. I've found that our lawn tends to peak around July 1-10 in most years.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by fun4me2 » July 2nd, 2020, 1:07 pm

pristinegreen75 wrote:
July 1st, 2020, 8:05 pm
Yeah..Yeah....rub it in fun4me....not fun for me:):):)
pristinegreen75 We are in a drought. Hadn't had any rain for weeks....weeks!
Either my grass in the front went dormant or it's fried. :shock:
I have zero shade for the bulk of it.
The rain is helping the dry soil. Of course the humidity is not helping.
I'm probably going to have to overseed in August. :banghead:

There, did I make you feel better? :tease:

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by ken-n-nancy » July 2nd, 2020, 1:23 pm

fun4me2 wrote:
July 2nd, 2020, 1:07 pm
pristinegreen75 We are in a drought. Hadn't had any rain for weeks....weeks!
Either my grass in the front went dormant or it's fried. :shock:
I have zero shade for the bulk of it.
The rain is helping the dry soil. Of course the humidity is not helping.
I'm probably going to have to overseed in August. :banghead:
Yeah, I can relate. Our typical May and June rainfall in NH is about 3.5 inches per month. After 0.3 inches of rain on May 15th, the 7-week period until June 29th was brutal, with NO RAIN except for 0.49 inches on June 6th -- seven weeks when we normally would have had about 6 inches of rain, with only half an inch!

We had a momentary reprieve a few days ago, with 2.05 inches of rain in 48 hours on June 28-30 according to our rain gauge. The thorough soaking has enabled the grass to recover a bit, although we still have a long-term deficit for wells and reservoirs.

The good news regarding your lawn, is that heat and drought generally doesn't kill a northern mix, as long as it gets enough water to not completely dry out. It will still be brown, looking dead, but will likely just be dormant, rather than dead.

In a northern mix, the fine fescue will survive practically any abusive weather that nature throws at it and will come roaring back in September, even though it will look dead until then. Any KBG will almost surely similarly recover from weather problems (fungus can be a different story). If you have a lot of perennial ryegrass, that may die due to a combination of heat and drought, but hopefully the remaining grass types will fill in the difference. That's one of the benefits of a northern mix -- it soldiers on, even if it is hardly ever firing on all cylinders at the same time.

The problem with a hot and dry summer, though, is that when the cooler, wetter weather of fall returns and the established lawn is just recovering from summer, weedy grasses such as Poa annua and Poa trivialis will see their chance to get a foot in the door, and will spread exuberantly just as the established grass is recovering...

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » July 2nd, 2020, 2:52 pm

Hey fun4me.....yes I feel much better now (LOL)..couple of Sam Adams Summer Ale also helped:):):) Thunderstorms all around me every night and I mean close (within half a mile) but my house...NOTHIN!! Someone doesn't like me. Nice read ken-n-nancy, Think I'm going to let my front fend for itself but I'm bound and determined to keep my back KBG green!!! Second year for it and my wife will kill me if I let go dormant:). Put down some BLSC in backyard today in prep for the sprinklers in the AM. There is about 1k that I have a compaction problem with. It seems to be working well.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by andy10917 » July 2nd, 2020, 5:38 pm

I've been hit by thunderstorm after thunderstorm - I lost count after a dozen in 3.5 days

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by PSU4ME » July 2nd, 2020, 6:50 pm

Looks great KNN!

We’ve got 5+ inches over the past 5 days. Not complaining but the heat is still here. Disease cocktail. Cut today and put down serenade at the 4oz per gallon rate and some KH. Hopefully it get some time to work. Lawn definitely took damage but high hopes it comes back

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by pristinegreen75 » July 3rd, 2020, 1:17 pm

Thanks Andy....I was just starting to feel better:):):)..Oh well, more Sam Adams Summer Ale!!..Guess what they are calling for tonight(again). More thunderstorms!! (we shall see)!! Had to make a recon mission on back yard lawn. Grabbed the Ortho Nutsedge bottle. Noticed some little yellow heads starting to pop up.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by nclawnguy » July 3rd, 2020, 7:51 pm

Mowed. Not bad for July 3rd.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by ken-n-nancy » July 3rd, 2020, 9:50 pm

nclawnguy wrote:
July 3rd, 2020, 7:51 pm
Mowed. Not bad for July 3rd.

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Looks downright awesome for NC in July!!!

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by andy10917 » July 3rd, 2020, 10:25 pm

Very, very impressive - but I've gotten used to that from you, NC !!

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by nclawnguy » July 3rd, 2020, 10:32 pm

Thanks guys. I still dream of doing a 100% kbg renovation someday.

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Re: 2020: What Did You Do On Your Lawn Today?

Post by ken-n-nancy » July 4th, 2020, 12:58 pm

Walked the lawn to see if the chipmunk holes I filled a few days ago have remained filled. So far, so good, although I also spotted a hole that I think I missed filling previously (hopefully I just missed it before and it isn't a new one!)

Also mixed up a gallon of 2,4-D in order to have some to spot-spray on a few patches of broadleaf weeds in the back that haven't responded well to hand-pulling. Figured I better do that today while it's still cool enough, with temperatures in the upper 80s coming in a few days. Since I had it in the sprayer, I walked the entire lawn to spot-spray other weeds that I normally would have hand pulled, but figured this would be a bit easier, although I miss the instant gratification of hand-pulling!

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