Good to see the new journal up! I have several of those "cob web" looking areas as well. Just feed in the spring and everything will fill in just fine. You've got grass everywhere, just needs nursed back to health after going through winter as an infant.

 

Good to see the new journal up! I have several of those "cob web" looking areas as well. Just feed in the spring and everything will fill in just fine. You've got grass everywhere, just needs nursed back to health after going through winter as an infant.

yeah should be interesting for sure, exciting to see how the baby grass grows, last time i did this i moved before i could see what happend in spring lol.

hopefully she gets nice and thiccck

 

First mow yesterday. Nice day plus 18C.

Had an itch to scratch. Mainly just wanted to start cleaning it up and roll it w the machine.

Pics after the mow.

Already looked greener this morning

Hoping I can get this sucker filled in this season. Spoon feeding on the menu.

 

Thats going to be fine in about 4 weeks... I am going to do an early urea feed on my new stuff to push it to fill...

 

Thats going to be fine in about 4 weeks... I am going to do an early urea feed on my new stuff to push it to fill...

when u doing that.

mines still too soft to drive the tractor and spray

 

Not sure how I've been missing this blue velvet mono. I think you're the only one on TLF. Can't wait to follow this!

Why did you end up going with BV out of curiosity?

 

Thats going to be fine in about 4 weeks... I am going to do an early urea feed on my new stuff to push it to fill...

when u doing that.

mines still too soft to drive the tractor and spray

2-3 weeks likely…

 

Nice! If you can find AS you spread at only 21% N. 1/2 lb it will green up like crazy without making you mow every 2 days this spring.

 

the lawn has really improved in a couple of weeks since the first photo coming out of winter!

 

Not sure how I've been missing this blue velvet mono. I think you're the only one on TLF. Can't wait to follow this!

Why did you end up going with BV out of curiosity?

For anyone wanting to see the sheet


I thought my local dlf pickseed sales Rep was pretty awesome when I was first inquiring about seed. So I felt like choosing a dlf pickseed product.

When looking through them it came down to ok so what's available and what are they selling for. also I liked some of the features of the blue velvet; very dark green, very resistant to diseases, also shade tolerant and knowing I have a bunch of trees around and literally a forest next to some of it, low growing, is fine w being cut down to 1/2", and also a low maintenance variety is ok w drought and low inputs, so I figured if I water it and feed it, it should do very well.

My thoughts anyways... Lol

 

the lawn has really improved in a couple of weeks since the first photo coming out of winter!

Even this area is looking better after what looked like a winter bomb went off.

Here's the first shot and then this morning for comparison.

Can't wait to get this all filled in. Like others have said you need patience when growing a kbg mono.

I seeded I think 3lb/k but w no covering maybe I should have gone 4lbs in hindsight, altho at least I won't have overcrowding issues and these plants should all end up being strong fighters.

 

By mid June this will all be filled in…. Looking good!

 

I seeded I think 3lb/k but w no covering maybe I should have gone 4lbs in hindsight, altho at least I won't have overcrowding issues and these plants should all end up being strong fighters.

I also think by mid June, this will be looking really good. Don't second guess yourself; I think your initial seed rate was good and no reason to go any higher. I seeded my KBG reno at just over 2lbs/M and it's looking pretty good. It seems to be a very common theme of a new KBG lawn to look think or have bare spots at the end of fall or the following spring. These are also the same lawns that end up looking amazing and are a future Lawn of the Month winner.

 

proD down last night on the mono

 

proD down last night on the mono

What rate?

 

proD down last night on the mono

What rate?

.25/ounce/k

Go w the Seasoned veterans rate.

Seems like a good rate for two apps for the year.

Hopefully I keep all the crud out so the kbg can fill in.

Sprayed the flower beds too

 

proD down last night on the mono

What rate?

.25/ounce/k

Go w the Seasoned veterans rate.

Seems like a good rate for two apps for the year.

Hopefully I keep all the crud out so the kbg can fill in.

Sprayed the flower beds too

Sounds good!

 

I've read conflicting things about spraying your flower beds. Do you do this every year? Ever notice root pruning or other adverse issues? I'm sick of the weeds there.

 

I've read conflicting things about spraying your flower beds. Do you do this every year? Ever notice root pruning or other adverse issues? I'm sick of the weeds there.

its my first time trying, we have quite a few sq feet of beds now and yeah picking weeds sucks, so id rather grow plants that are fine with it lol.

i guess we'll see what happens, theres a lot of species of plants it lists that are fine w it, so i just went for it, maybe i'll regret it, hopefully not.

 

2nd mow of the year, not many clippings it was very hard to see my lines walking back into the sun. Not my best lines.

We're just now getting into some warmer days and sun to start activating this thing. It's got little pockets of green starting to pop up. Where it is green the color is so green and nice. Around the septic and close to the house in the back where it's warmer and full sun and been fertilized by the dogs is super green and thick and looks great, I dream of the day that happens yard wide lol.

Probably look at spoon feeding here soon, just want to give it a few warm days and wait for it to fully wake up.

Still have some pretty thin areas back around the Trampoline and some of the other areas that struggled last fall so it will be interesting to see how much I can push this turf and get it to spread and fill in this season.

All those who have done large area kbg monos and really had a lot of filling in to do in the first season, chime in and let me know what you did to ensure great success.

I also have a lot of poa spots showing their ugly faces and some other grassy weeds.

The only thing I can think to do is walk the rows and paint them w gly. Going to be a lot of work but I want to get rid of this stuff. How annoying lol

Grow a kbg mono they said... Lol, it's a meditative process, stay present and patient lol

 

I say just pluck em. No way you will get them all anyways. Make sure you bag your clippings to remove any possible seed heads.

 

Got around to doing some plugs today. My wife helped pull the good ones from the fire pit area, which when I get around to it will be filled and raised w stone.

70 plugs or so placed in the dead areas in the back yard, few dog kill areas in the front I haven't gotten to, ran out of time. Hopefully speed up the fill in process, not perfect but it's something.

 

I say just pluck em. No way you will get them all anyways. Make sure you bag your clippings to remove any possible seed heads.

there's likely thousands of these little plants, no way im pulling that many, thats why i thought a paint brush on a stick w gly would go faster. going to spray tenacity soon to highlight them i think and work on the next step.

 

Gave it a snack. Sprayed urea .10lb/M

I think it's liking it, colour starting to show up now. This is 2nd morning after feed



Can see a few pockets of what the colour should be

 

Fantastic job by late fall you will have a showcase lawn. You will get some nice spreading this early summer but come late summer/ fall when you can really push the nitrogen the finished product is going to be fantastic