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I let the lawn wake up real gradual, then I detached it and started throwing down N - with some patches. The POA is more pervasive than I expected so I’ll gly it later in the year and do an overseed.

During the dethatch, I like an idiot, wiped out a patch that was taking root and filling in. Damn.

4lbs of 7-0-20 stress from YM.
N: 0.11
K: 0.32

 

May 15:
Threw down some Scott’s Grub B Gon MAX and 7.25lbs a Stress Blend from Yard Mastery. Watering it in right now.

N: 0.31
K: 0.90

 

May 28:
Threw down some Urea (46-0-0). Starting to fill in so I’ll start ramping up on the sand level project.


N: 0.49
K: 0.90

 

May 30: some pictures. I did some spraying with an old mix and whatever I had left of glyphosate. Snuck a mow in just before leaving to finger lakes for the weekend.

My ants are coming back but I’ve got a spray for them so I’ll use that. I poured boiling water on them in desperation and that wiped out the grass. So far, absolutely zero products in Canada deal with the issue and it is incredibly disruptive/destructive and unsightly.

You can see how much work I have to level out the graveyard the landscaping company left. The grass isn’t doing well because the water pools and hypoxia attacks.

 

Pick up some of the Ortho spray for the ants while your down at the finger lakes at Home Depot.

 

Jun 15: Father’s Day saw a long needed mow and drought repair starting in one section of the lawn. I have been very business with my side business!

1.5 lbs of urea and molasses.

N: 0.77
K: 0.90

 

I should get more pictures.

Residual molasses and another application if Hydretain. I’ve been throwing tons of water out there to see if I can recover the area near the front tree but it doesn’t look good. It’s either bugs or salt melt out that didn’t recover (???). My lawn is the best out there in the neighborhood but it’s still taking a beating from the heat.

 

June 18:

 

June 20:
Threw down a pound of Urea, watering in the lawn before a heat wave.

N: 0.95
K: 0.90

 

lawn leveling started…. It’s going to be a while because this doesn’t even begin to level the patched section with the grade of the rest of the lawn.

 

July 7:
Threw down a pound of Urea.

N: 1.13
K: 0.90

 

It looks like I missed throwing down before I left for a cottage. So I will need to post twice to keep the records reconciled.

July 19:
Threw down a pound of Urea.

N: 1.31
K: 0.90

 

Returned home from the cottage where we had another streak of very hot weather of ~30C with very hot evenings as well ~23C. So I’m getting in as much water as I can before we leave again for SCCA Champ Tour

July 27:
Threw down a pound and a half of Urea, since my N has been lower than I need to PUSH the lawn and encourage maximum lateral growth by that’s okay as I’ve been working 100hrs/week this summer. Almost forgot, I sprayed some dish soap on the lawn before dumping water down. Naturally though, my sprinkler decided to break so I’ve got a gardenia on the way while I use an old equally broken Melnor sprinkler.

N: 1.49
K: 0.90

 

Aug 15:
Threw down a pound and a quarter of Urea, but Mother Nature continues to burn and destroy my lawn. I did what a could with back to back out of town events but she’s scorched. There’s an area of yellow forming but I have no identification as to the cause.

N: 1.74
K: 0.90

 

Aug 23:
Threw down a pound and a quarter of Urea. There’s some recovery but we need temperatures to drop before any progress is really made. I’ll finally be able to spray tomorrow since temperatures will be lower than 80F.

I also applied more Hydretain.

N: 1.99
K: 0.90

 

August 25: First spray of the season. Used 2:3 of my jug which is more than usual but that’s a side effect of the landscaping work that was done…bane of my existence so far.

 

Sep 21:
Threw down a pound and a quarter of Urea. Well…. We’ve had a killer drought to end the year and I was putting 100hr weeks in at work so it is rough.

I still need to do at least one phase of sand leveling before the winter or I’m going to be in for another round of die off from fungus.

N: 2.22
K: 0.90