2023: What Did You Do To Your Lawn Today? (Warm Season)

[andy10917]

2023 Version of short-form comments. Please do not ask questions in this thread - just comments about what you've been doing in your Yard.

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

After the 19 degree nights a couple weeks ago, we are as dormant as we could possibly be. Still, the "Autumn" leaves are starting to fall so my wife mulched them into the dead looking canopy to clean things up. The freeze was followed by many days of very low humidity, so we have watered once since then.
Interestingly, our roses are coming on strong. The freeze definitely took them down, but... Normally I prune them back on Valentine's Day, but this year I'll be looking for the dead among the new sprouts, unless it freezes again.

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

Mowed on Prez-Day and am about to spray for weeds? Seriously?! We're running a full month ahead of schedule here with temps in the 80s.
What I mowed was 99.9% the dormant straw, but there are signs of life coming up. The weeds are mostly winter rye which we got by disturbing the soil and bringing up the seed. In the middle of the grass areas there are no weeds.

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

This is not my personal diary, here. Anyone, feel free to comment.

We've had an early spring in San Antonio. We just escaped another freeze a few weeks ago, and with higher than normal temps for the past month, stuff is blooming all over town. In the past week I watered NEW grass. Normally the grass doesn't awaken until the end of March, so this is a full month early. I also sprayed atrazine weed killer where we disturbed the soil last year bringing up old weed seeds. Normally I would wait until mid April to spray after all the weeds were up and running, but again, everything is early.

[andy10917]

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