Looks good! :thumbup:

 

Looks good! :thumbup:

Thanks! Hopefully it starts looking good when it greens up. The scalp is making me nervous.

 

...The scalp is making me nervous.

It looks normal to me.

I saw this floating around here the other day... "If you can grow fingernails, you can grow Bermuda." :lol:

 

...The scalp is making me nervous.

It looks normal to me.

I saw this floating around here the other day... "If you can grow fingernails, you can grow Bermuda." :lol:

Except my "fingernails" are like a 90 year olds crusty, ingrown nails...your "fingernails" are like a hot chick's French manicured nails :lol:

 

I put down some barricade 3/15 and it's been greening up.

Based on how it looked Thursday (3/22) vs today (3/24) id say it's about to explode 😳

 

Didn't you get a reel mower last year, and drop your HOC drastically? If that was you, man, your lawn is looking great!

 

Didn't you get a reel mower last year, and drop your HOC drastically? If that was you, man, your lawn is looking great!

Yep! I went from cutting at roughly 2", down to an inch with manual fiskars reel, and then jumped to toro GM and cutting between 0.7-0.9" (also sand leveled).

Used PGR, celsius, and surfactant too.....kinda went head first into lawn 😂

 

So after a lawn-side consult from @Ware, I did the first true cut of the lawn this season @ 0.625"

Still not 100% but making a lot of progress...the parts that are green are growing quickly (especially with all the rain we've been having)

 

Looks good! Way ahead of the rest of the neighborhood! :thumbsup:

 

Going to sand again this year? Looks like the front is doing well.

 

Looks good! Way ahead of the rest of the neighborhood! :thumbsup:

Oh yes...and I can feel eyes watching me as they drive by

And yes a sanding is in order

 

After paying someone else to mow the back yard and doing ZERO weed control (I know I'm bad), I've decided I'm going to take over. It's not anywhere near in the condition where I'd even take my GM back there so I broke down and bought a Honda.

This model's lowest setting is 0.75" - I tried that setting to scalp and hit dirt a lot (not level at all and lots of holes, etc.) so I had to go up one notch (~1.125")

 

Nice! I still use my Honda to suck up clippings after a scalp, leaves, etc. You'll enjoy having that around.

 

Mowed the front lawn at 0.625" again today. Still waiting for it to green up more before I start with the nitrogen (it's probably 70-80% now).

I took the GM into the backyard hoping it was just damp enough to try and roll/flatten. Turns out it wasn't really that damp....and somehow the darn reel got engaged and before I knew it, the backyard which was previously at 1.125" via new Honda rotary was scalped at 0.625" with the GM..."oops"

 

A low scalp is what I do to a lawn that is not flat. Then I can see if and where sand is needed. That does not look too brutal at all. I guess the GM is working well.

 

Pulled a few weeds out of the front lawn. These bare spots are annoying me - hopefully the fill in quickly.

 

Pulled a few weeds out of the front lawn. These bare spots are annoying me - hopefully the fill in quickly.

When you pull some grass out of the ground in those spots do the roots and rhizomes appear dark or rotted? If so, it could be spring dead spot.

 

Pulled a few weeds out of the front lawn. These bare spots are annoying me - hopefully the fill in quickly.

When you pull some grass out of the ground in those spots do the roots and rhizomes appear dark or rotted? If so, it could be spring dead spot.

Hmmm I'll have to check. How do I fix that? :lol:

 

Spring Dead Spot

 

I see money. As in the need to spend money. I know the fungicides that are the most effective against SDS are also the ones that cost the most. Those are the same ones I use for Large Patch in Zoysia.

 

I see money. As in the need to spend money. I know the fungicides that are the most effective against SDS are also the ones that cost the most. Those are the same ones I use for Large Patch in Zoysia.

Based on that NC State article it looks like those must be applied in the fall?

 

Yes. In the fall. Before the turf goes dormant. Everything is a systemic fungicide that needs to be circulating in the root system.

 

I have some SDS too. I guess I'll be digging into which product to use later this summer.

 

@Ware so you're saying I should seek a fungicide for my front lawn?

 

Ware so you're saying I should seek a fungicide for my front lawn?

Maybe, but I think it's too late to do any good for this year. Those spots will fill in this spring with new growth.