Some lawn growing, some lawn stopped. Questions.
Posted: November 7th, 2020, 9:33 am
As some here know, I have a large lawn (2 acres, 1 acre grass) that I have been working on for the first time this season. Thanks to those that made this a very successful first season, by the way!
I have a small front lawn - 3000k - that I renovated in the fall and is the only part of my lawn that is irrigated. The water here is insanely expensive - 2.86 cents per gallon - which should answer why I don't irrigate the whole thing. One inch of water on 3000k is 1875 gallons. During the growing season, made worse this year because of a drought, my QUARTERLY water bill is in the thousands.
I have been rigidly following a soil remediation program that Andy developed for me on the irrigated part of the lawn. I have also been doing the same thing on the non-irrigated parts of the lawn when the rain permits, which wasn't often this year.
I had first real frost on October 21. On October 31, we were supposed to get an inch of snow. We got four. Two days later it was gone. Yesterday it was 70 degrees and the forecast actually has a high/low for the next 6 days of 70/45. In October, I got five inches of rain after going nearly three months without any measurable rain. It's been a weird year for weather.
The lawn went into the pause around October 7th.
My last cut was October 30th, and there wasn't much being cut in the non-irrigated sections. I was mulching leaves like crazy. I also cut the irrigated part on October 30th and again yesterday.
Now to the questions:
1. Growth has stopped in the non-irrigated sections, but the irrigated portion is still growing. Is this normal? I gave all of the aforementioned detail because there are a lot of factors at play this year.
2. Since we have gone from late fall conditions back to 70 degree highs and 45 degree lows which appear they will last for at least a week, how should I be thinking about the winter urea application?
My concern with the latter question is that with the swing back to warmer temps, the last urea application I have been waiting to apply after stoppage might force top growth.
I have a small front lawn - 3000k - that I renovated in the fall and is the only part of my lawn that is irrigated. The water here is insanely expensive - 2.86 cents per gallon - which should answer why I don't irrigate the whole thing. One inch of water on 3000k is 1875 gallons. During the growing season, made worse this year because of a drought, my QUARTERLY water bill is in the thousands.
I have been rigidly following a soil remediation program that Andy developed for me on the irrigated part of the lawn. I have also been doing the same thing on the non-irrigated parts of the lawn when the rain permits, which wasn't often this year.
I had first real frost on October 21. On October 31, we were supposed to get an inch of snow. We got four. Two days later it was gone. Yesterday it was 70 degrees and the forecast actually has a high/low for the next 6 days of 70/45. In October, I got five inches of rain after going nearly three months without any measurable rain. It's been a weird year for weather.
The lawn went into the pause around October 7th.
My last cut was October 30th, and there wasn't much being cut in the non-irrigated sections. I was mulching leaves like crazy. I also cut the irrigated part on October 30th and again yesterday.
Now to the questions:
1. Growth has stopped in the non-irrigated sections, but the irrigated portion is still growing. Is this normal? I gave all of the aforementioned detail because there are a lot of factors at play this year.
2. Since we have gone from late fall conditions back to 70 degree highs and 45 degree lows which appear they will last for at least a week, how should I be thinking about the winter urea application?
My concern with the latter question is that with the swing back to warmer temps, the last urea application I have been waiting to apply after stoppage might force top growth.