[Durso81]

Figured I would start a journal to keep track of my progress. Last year I killed off what little Bermuda I had growing in my front yard do to shade and plugged palmetto St Augustine. I planted the 3" plugs at the end of April 2017 and the filled in pic is from sometime in July 2017 I hammered it with nitrogen and it filled in pretty quick.


And here is a pic from this year of the st Augustine. I am really impressed with the cold tolerance of palmetto. We had a brutal winter for my area and got a good amount of snow.

 

[Durso81]

I had plans this year for my Bermuda sections but do to remodeling our house it just has not happened. But I have changed some of my culture practices and have been mowing lower, I can only go down to 1.25" with my rotary mower. I scalped it at .75" at the beginning of the season. I have been using a pgr to help maintain my hoc and to make it thicker. I have been hitting it weekly with 34-0-0 and I have been using the N-ext lineup of products.

I will say my Bermuda has never looked so good and so green.

Here is were I scalped it on 3/16/18


We had a cold start to spring so it took forever to green up.

I scalped it again on 6/6/18

 

[Durso81]

I have some problem areas that I am dealing with one being around the edge of the patio. The guy who built it a couple years ago never put a drip edge on the roof so when it rains it goes in between the facia and gutters and has been beating the ground around the patio. So is m having to fix that issue. As you can see in this picture.

 

[Durso81]

I probably started using a pgr a little to soon and should have let some areas grow in first but even with using a pgr and hammering it nitrogen it has still been growing pretty fast. Here are some pics.

 

[Durso81]

Here is a comparison of the front side of my house vs last year. Definitely greener and denser.


Definitely have some shade issues and the tifway is just hanging on. My plan is to try some Tiftuf out in this area.

 

[Durso81]

For my backyard I have some areas of concern do to shade and the tifway is just not growing. Not gonna be able to do anything this year do to home renovations but my plan is to try Tiftuf in these areas and I'm thinking it will blend ok with the tifway.




I used a DLI meter in these 2 areas and the area in the first pic right next to the patio I got a reading of between 20-24 Mol and in the second pic up against the fence o got 25-29.

 

[Durso81]

Mowed today been fighting leaf spot on my st Augustine. We have had allot of late afternoon showers and humidity. Trying to mow a little lower at 3.5" to help it dry out faster. Also applied eagle 20 this past Tuesday.






Mowed the Bermuda at 1.25". Supposed to apply T-Nex by tomorrow according to greenskeeper app. But trying to decide to let it come out of regulation to let some areas fill in. Just not sure if I could keep up with mowing enough.

 

[Durso81]

Mowed again today. Gutters are fixed, so now it should start to fill in around the edge of the patio.

 

[Guest]

Looking good! How's the eagle 20 working out?

 

[Durso81]

Looking good! How's the eagle 20 working out?

Thanks

I have done 1 application so far about to do my second this week. The leaf spot seams yo not be getting worse but it doesn't look like it's going away either. But we keep having these late afternoon storms and high humidity which I'm sure is not helping.

 

[Colonel K0rn]

Man, you've got a great looking lawn, in the front and the back! Love how the palmetto came through for you from the plugs.

 

[Durso81]

Man, you've got a great looking lawn, in the front and the back! Love how the palmetto came through for you from the plugs.

Thank you!

 

[Durso81]

Applied 7-0-0 green effect, micro green and 34-0-0 to the Bermuda last night. Mowed this morning @ 1.25".




Applied 7-0-0 green effect, micro green, RGS and eagle 20 to my st Augustine last night and mowed at 3.5" this morning.

 

[Durso81]

Mowed today @ 1" with my new push reel mower. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought. It's a earthwise 7 blade reel. It can go down to 1/2". I'll have to play around with the height adjustments and see if I can get 3/4". If so I'll scalp at 1/2" and maintain at 3/4" , but I may have to level before I can go that low. We shall see.

 

[Durso81]

Played with the height on the mower and I can cut at 3/4". So I scalped it down to 1/2" and will maintain at 3/4". Here it is at 1/2".

 

[Durso81]

Mowed at 3/4"

 

[Colonel K0rn]

Looks good. I chuckled for a bit when I saw the small plastic mower and thought "Man that cuts great!"

 

[Durso81]

Looks good. I chuckled for a bit when I saw the small plastic mower and thought "Man that cuts great!"

Thanks. Lol best mower ever man so quite and blows bubbles can't beat it. 😆

 

[Durso81]

It's been awhile, been busy and it's has been raining like crazy, finally got to mow today it's has been 9 days since I last mowed, not to bad on the scalping, thank God for PGR. Which I was supposed to apply today according to greenskeeper but didn't have time. We will see how the scalping goes at my current HOC of 3/4" if I need to I will scalped down to 1/2" to get back to maintaining a 3/4" HOC.

 

[TN Hawkeye]

The area by the porch is filling in nicely since you fixed the roof issue. Yard looks good.