Picked up fallen twigs and looked for any weeds.

 

Well, it's a great day to be inside. It's 18 degrees now with a wind chill of 9. I know that the yankees that lurk here think that this is not cold, but they have more winter cloths. We have cutoff and flip-flops. MY Savvy Soil soil test kit came in the mail yesterday. It will wait.

 

It's 18 degrees now with a wind chill of 9. I know that the yankees that lurk here think that this is not cold, but they have more winter cloths. We have cutoff and flip-flops.

I'm no yankee but 18F is great flip flop and shorts weather.

 

Hand pulled weeds in the yard.

 

@Tellycoleman - Impressed you were able to pull weeds. I went out to a brand new landscaped be I put in late summer/early fall (started a cut flower garden for my wife) to try to pull some weeds. It was fruitless....ground was frozen, everything I tried to pull just snapped off at soil level. Since it was a bed, went and got a hoe and got a few out that way. Can't imagine what actually living up north is like

 

Hand plucked a few poa sprouts, and twigs from the kids bringing more junk into the yard.

I'm over winter and actually miss cutting grass already. My yard despite the snow and ice, hasn't gone completely dormant in a few spots that get some sun. Yard stayed way greener later this year after cutting lower!

 

Taking down the rest of my Christmas lights.

 

I also took down my outdoor Christmas decorations. It was a Beautiful day!

 

Trimmed some shrubs and rose bushes. Got the soil sample sent off in the mail. I'm so over winter. But one more month and we'll be thinking Prodiamine.

 

Stepped off some distances to move sprinkler heads. I have 3 sprinklers along my south fence and never have been happy about the coverage. I plan to take the middle one out and add 2 equally spaced to make 4 sprinklers along the fence.

 

I did a clean up of leaves dead plant materials from the winter cold.

Before:




After: Dramatic Right?





Whew, I'm worn out!

 

After: Dramatic Right?

Heck I thought you moved!!!! :thumbup:

 

Took out the lawn vacuum (aka Honda rotary) to pick up all the pieces of diaper my dog demolished.

 

Applied prodiamine Saturday. First time I've done it myself and it was a pretty simple process. Much better than paying somone $75-100 to spray the $2 worth chemical.

 

Applied prodiamine Saturday. First time I've done it myself and it was a pretty simple process. Much better than paying somone $75-100 to spray the $2 worth chemical.

Nice! :thumbup:

 

Yesterday, I spot sprayed a few weeds that have broken thru - mostly around the edges and along the back fence.

Today, I put down calcium sulfate (gypsum) at 24 lbs/k. My soil test showed that my pH is 6.55, but my level of sodium is high. So I am using gypsum this year rather than lime as it helps keep the red clay loose and reduces the salt level without affecting pH. I will also need to add some magnesium and always iron. A couple of more weeks and it's prodiamine time.

 

Today I vacuumed up all my leaves with the Honda mower, and then I used the Chapin 24v push sprayer to put down my spring pre-emergent.

Come on spring green-up!

 

Put down a prodiamine app with my backpack sprayer for the first time. Having a battery operated machine is a must! I couldn't imagine having to stop and pump when needed.

 

Prodiamine at half annual rate yesterday. One inch of rain this morning. :thumbup:

 

Started taking down the Bermuda in prep for the green up. Was cutting with rotary last summer, but added a McLane Iver the winter. So going do the scalping in stages.

Last weekend, pruned three climbing rose bushes that I have growing on the side of my house. Yesterday, pruned a plum tree to get it ready for the spring.

Pretty soon it will be time for me to spray Pre-E.

 

Put down prodiamine with my new backpack sprayer. It didn't take long to realize I should have sprung for the battery powered sprayer. Also added mulch to the flower beds. It is supposed to rain tue/wed, so I should be set for a few weeks Before it is time to scalp.

We had a pool put in over fall, so the back yard sprinkler was redesigned and moved further out from the house (we have an acre, but only the first 50 feet in the back is sodded). We moved the sprinklers back 10 feet and put in full rotary along along the back so we have added about 4600 square feet of watered lawn. I will be seeding it later this spring (no prodiamine in this area). So this weekend, I also spent some time re-measuring my lawn and figuring the square footage for each section and another one for each sprinkler zone (photos below).

Ready for spring!

 

Ready for spring!

Have you started scalping yet? With all of this warm weather we've been getting my lawn is already starting to green up.

 

Have you started scalping yet? With all of this warm weather we've been getting my lawn is already starting to green up.

Not yet, I am waiting as I want to add some leveling sand this spring, so I am hoping to do that at the same time I scalp and the lawn needs to be growing a little more actively for that. I don't know, maybe I should just go ahead and scalp and add sand in June. I'll take some advice on that, I'm in south Texas, near San Antonio.

 

...I don't know, maybe I should just go ahead and scalp and add sand in June. I'll take some advice on that, I'm in south Texas, near San Antonio.

It would recover faster in June, but I prefer to get it out of the way in the spring when the weather is more favorable.

 

Sprayed Katana trying to get rid of some Poa Annua that has come up in mine and neighbors yard.