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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
Home Depot normally carries it. Fleet Farm. Menards, Ace, etc. Milorganite is fine as you could use some more phosphorus. Looking at those soil results, you're pH is high and that's a tough problem. At 7.9 most of your micronutrients are fully bound in the soil and not bio-available, but... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
Peak Lawn, Fungicide, and Fun with stripes.... Peak Lawn: I wanted to prepare some of the guys who are just getting into the lawn thing about something that shouldn't discourage you. We're around peak lawn for the year. As it gets hotter, your turf will continue to look worse as the summer... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
Are you spot spraying or doing a blanket application? If blanket, read the label for interval and max yearly application rates. I'm sure you're probably fine to spot spray again. Crossbow is 2,4-D and triclopyr if I remember correctly. That's a potent mix to kill a broad number of weeds... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
You can reduce your fertilizer by around 25% each year just by mulching the clippings, so it's a cost savings on fertilizer. With frequent mowing, clippings contribute little to nothing in the thatch layer. They break down and provide organic matter back to the soil. Most of what these guys... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
That should work well. I only suggested something with potassium in it because that can help plants deal with stress. Nitrogen drives the bus so it should all come out good. -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
Milorganite is a good choice right now. Not a lot of fast acting nitrogen in it, so it should stay in the soil and feed slowly. With all this rain, none of us want to be hay farmers. -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
My grass grew over an inch in two days. If you're getting the kind of rain I'm getting, it will likely be able to recover before the hot weather hits, although it's going to take some time before the scalped sections get good color back. If it's been over 2 weeks since you last fertilized... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
I had been mowing this new bluegrass lawn with a manual Great States reel mower at 1 1/4". I let the grass grow a bit taller in preparation for hotter weather and set the Honda mower at 2" and decided to throw down some stripes. I'm using the Toro lawn stripper kit and did double wide stripes... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
I use an earthway branded spreader. I think I got it for around $100 or mabye $120. It's better than the Scott's I had previously. It still has it's quirks. -
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I'm going to make a deal with employers to debit money directly from people's paychecks. I'm going to tell them it's going to be safely invested and will be available upon their retirement, meanwhile I'm going to spend it all on whatever I want and the young people will get screwed. -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
Tough question as most of the seed "patch" kits are fescue grasses. Whatever you end up putting down, look at the back of the bag and look at the label. It should read 0% weeds and if possible 0% other crop. -
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What's growing? The garden thread.
my 24 hours average soil temp was 63 degrees. I'm sure that's below the historical average. Weekend temps are supposed to be in the 80's though. -
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What's growing? The garden thread.
Sungold is awesome. Very sweet. It's an indeterminate type so you might want to watch a youtube video on those. It will produce tomatoes all season if you learn how to stake it and prune it. It's not hard or much work. Watch a video on pruning suckers on indeterminate tomatoes. Peppers... -
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What's growing? The garden thread.
We dodged the frost/freeze here in Kansas City. Tomatoes look fine, but the squash and watermelon is lagging from the colder spring. I waited with the peppers until after the last cold snap, so they are doing fine. 6a is my zone. -
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What's growing? The garden thread.
I've had success using the spectracide bag-a-bug beetle traps. I hang one at either end of my garden. Not in the garden but close to it. Some argue they draw in more beetles, and that may be true, but I was emptying the bag every 2 days during peak beetle season. The garden received little... -
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What's growing? The garden thread.
I've been posting in the lawn care threads but I wanted to start something on gardening. So fanatics, what's growing in your garden this year? I'll go first. My garden size roughly doubled this year as that was the plan. Luckily I got seeds back in January before Covid, as it's very... -
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Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
My post about spraying iron will darken it up for bit, but it's a temporary fix. You probably have an older variety of fescue that just isn't as dark genetically. Mowing tall will improve the color. A lack of a specific micronutrient can also have a big impact. If your pH is too high, that...