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Contemplated starting a tread, but figured why not, and this will give me an opportunity to document the change and improvement.
Quick background I have been in this house 6 years now, when I bought the front yard was sodded with centipede and the back was bare dirt. I put down two pallets of 419 but wasnt near enough for the whole yard, at the time I didnt know better and bought seed from lowes for the rest. Spending plenty time on "the other site" i learned a ton, and back in 2015 bought a used 220e. By the end of that year the yard was beginning to look really nice. Unfortunately 2016 brought on some major life changes and I was unable to dedicate myself to my lawn in the same way I had been. I stopped with pre emergent apps and fertilizer, also started mowing only with my rotary and nowhere near as frequent. Needless to say the weeds took over, lots of dallisgrass.
Fast forward I'm in a position to get back to it, I've decided to concentrate my efforts only on the back and get it right before tackling a bermuda transition out front. I'm now on the third week of reeling sun/wed/fri and seeing improvement already. I've made one app of celsius and need another round. Also ordered some dimension 2EW and will apply as it's never too late right hahaha. I have some bimini plugs I'll be planting and do some more of them to fill in with hybrid rather than low grade seeded. Not crazy worried about a mix of bermuda types. Current HOC is 1" bench measurement, next summer I'll do a sand level and lower HOC, goal is maintain .5"
Quick background I have been in this house 6 years now, when I bought the front yard was sodded with centipede and the back was bare dirt. I put down two pallets of 419 but wasnt near enough for the whole yard, at the time I didnt know better and bought seed from lowes for the rest. Spending plenty time on "the other site" i learned a ton, and back in 2015 bought a used 220e. By the end of that year the yard was beginning to look really nice. Unfortunately 2016 brought on some major life changes and I was unable to dedicate myself to my lawn in the same way I had been. I stopped with pre emergent apps and fertilizer, also started mowing only with my rotary and nowhere near as frequent. Needless to say the weeds took over, lots of dallisgrass.
Fast forward I'm in a position to get back to it, I've decided to concentrate my efforts only on the back and get it right before tackling a bermuda transition out front. I'm now on the third week of reeling sun/wed/fri and seeing improvement already. I've made one app of celsius and need another round. Also ordered some dimension 2EW and will apply as it's never too late right hahaha. I have some bimini plugs I'll be planting and do some more of them to fill in with hybrid rather than low grade seeded. Not crazy worried about a mix of bermuda types. Current HOC is 1" bench measurement, next summer I'll do a sand level and lower HOC, goal is maintain .5"
