Looking beautiful! I'm doing 0.25lb N/1k weekly with AMS on my renovation ...and cutting every 3 days! I'm not sure how long to go or what the total spring N goal should be... .

I'm doing 0.5lbN with 46-0-0 on my overseed every 2 weeks. Not sure what the total should be back there either...

 

Looking beautiful! I'm doing 0.25lb N/1k weekly with AMS on my renovation ...and cutting every 3 days! I'm not sure how long to go or what the total spring N goal should be... .

I'm doing 0.5lbN with 46-0-0 on my overseed every 2 weeks. Not sure what the total should be back there either...

awesome! Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like your yard is doing pretty good!

 

Put down some lime today at 5lb per 1k/sq ft.
Will fertilize this weekend.
Have some different grass growing in the yard. Is it Bermuda grass? Is so, what’s the best way to get rid of it? Kentucky blue grass?

I also need to figure out something to do landscaping wise to hide the stupid septic tank lids. I’m thinking a 1’ circle around both and a plant in the middle?
Thoughts and ideas would be appreciated!

 

Worked on the fence this weekend. It started raining so I did not mow or fertilize. Hopefully it will dry out by mid week.

 

My back yard that I Reno this summer has a lot of bare spots. I’m going to start spoon feeding it but I might rough up the ground and drop some seed in a month if it hasn’t gotten filled in anymore. All in all it looks great but I don’t like the bare spots from the deer eating it.

 

Mowed again today. I did .5 oz prodamine per 1k sq ft on the back lawn after I realized the front I did .15oz per 1k sq ft. I ran out so I’ll need to order more.

does anyone buy the granule and use those or does everyone put it into a sprayer?

I am wondering if I need to thatch the front as there is some discoloration and appears to be clumping.

back lawn has a lot of bare spots. Going to try to fertilize (spoon feed .25 per week for the next month and see if it fills in. If not I’ll cut real short and over seed.

opinions and thoughts are welcomed as I would like to get better at this!

 

It looks beautiful! I love green spring grass. For bare spots do you mean like in the second picture above where it's like a little "polka dotted"?

I always have to put an "I'm no expert" but I think those will probably get smaller as the individual grass plants get bigger. I know fescue doesn't spread but if you think about how many individual plants of grass are there and each one starts with just one blade of grass then gets bigger and bigger.... If you have a "hole" surrounded by plants and they all double or triple in circumference.. They'll probably mostly fill the hole. I feel like that's how mine has filled in some of the thinner areas.

I had one area in my renovation at the front corner near the garage that was thin from the start. Some of the seed washed into uneven lines shortly after I put it down. That area is almost completely full now because even though it was thinner by comparison, what was still there got "bigger" and filled it in.

I sort of look at thin or bare areas and ask "if all the clumps around this spot double in size, will this spot disappear?"

I attempted a comparison picture. The top is from a couple days ago.The bottom is from fall. You can still see it's "dimpled" but there's almost no dirt showing there now. The one hole near the sprinkler head in the bottom picture might still be a small hole (the top picture cuts off just above it)

Anyway, I'll stop blathering on. That's my unprofessional 2 cents. lol

 

Haha, I appreciate it.

I’m hopeful it will start to grow. I know the deer did not do me any good eating the grass. They are pretty bare. I’m thinking with the spoon feeding it will help.

 

Well tonight I put down .25lb per 1k sq ft of N on the new lawn. Why doing that I found this son of a gun! I have a mole!!! Bought a trap and will try to catch it. I have a ton in my field but they had not made it to my lawns until now. That was super frustrating.

I went to turn on my sprinklers and the hose bib timers all exploded over the winter so I had to order those too. Good thing it’s cloudy tomorrow and raining Sunday so I’m not concerned of burning the grass.

I also got the 2.25 acres mowed

 

Well I think I put my prodamine down too late. These suckers are popping up all over the place!
The mole dug another spot. I’ve been reading and it says grubs could play a role in the mole activity so I’ll put down some grubex this weekend.
Also need to spray and fertilize again a spoon feeding of .25/1ksqft.

is it too much to do all three in a weekend?

 

Got the fence/gate done today and cut the posts down. Turned out pretty good. Raining off and on so I did not fertilize or spray.

got a mow in on both yards last night!

 

I ended up spraying tonight for the clover that’s forming.

found this brown patch, it appears to be all but dead. Any ideas? Nowhere else is the lawn just this small circle.

 

Got the sprinklers all turned on and ready to go. Watered each yard for 5 min. It’s growing a lot but turned a little off green with all the sun even though it hasn’t been real warm.

 

Got the stripping kit for my birthday. Got it installed today and it worked great. Thanks for the recommendation @Butter!

mowed both yards at 2.5” applied grubex and urea. Now I need it to thicken up!

 

Awesome!

 

It will be interesting to see if the grubex helps with the mole issue. I am getting a new hole every other day probably.

the birds are in my lawn ALL day everyday as well so I am thinking I have something under the grass.

 

Stupid Mole was at it again, I have another mound. I stuffed a sonar repellent down there. Waiting for the poison worms from Amazon.

Sprinklers are all fixed and ready to go. I will do an audit tomorrow running each zone for 7min so I can figure out how much water that puts down.

spent a few hours trying to fix the electrical to the pool. Got super irritated and quit! The wire is not very long to the box which is making it really hard. I’ll fix Wednesday or Thursday. I need to empty it to put the new liner in there.

 

I hate moles! I currently don't have any in my main front or back yard but there are at least one or 2 in the 2 yards next to me. In the back it's staying along the fence line and mostly in the other guy's yard. In the front it's tearing up the front driveway side yard. I had the trap out for a few days but I haven't been putting enough effort into it to get anything.

I'm going to freak out if it comes across the driveway. I got one in the renovation last year before it was time to seed. I need to focus on getting these ones before they start infiltrating further into the yard.

I've had decent success with the plunger style trap. (I call it Mr. Stabby) I didn't have any luck with the worms last year. I also bought 2 of the traps that go in the tunnels and one of the scissor trap ones.

The issue out front is the Bermudagrass. It really seems to make it impossible to use the stabby trap. It worked fine in the back where it's mostly Fescue but when I tried it in the front pre-renovation it just doesn't seem to be able to penetrate deep enough to get them.

Last year I actually caught the mole while it was digging. You've been following so you probably saw that. 😂

I know I look crazy out there just pacing and staring at the ground but I feel like I might have to do that again to get the current offenders. I'm hoping one of the neighbors will poison them...

 

I’m hoping the poison will work. It keeps digging in the same area so hopefully it will be easy to remove.

I remember you posting about it and it keeping you up at night! Hopefully yours stays in the neighbors yard!

 

I’ve had pretty good luck with the scissor traps - just need to be vigilant and monitor where the tunnels are day to day. When you notice a new tunnel branch, that’s your target. Obviously also helps to notice the tunnels early so there are less of them to keep an eye on.

 

It has been interesting that the tunnels all seem to be the same path. The new holes pop out a foot or two from the old one

 

Did irrigation test today at 7 min per and got roughly .1” in the cups I put out. Thinking I will do each zone for 20 min on Thursday since it will be nice and see how much I get. I plan on trying to get 1/2” every 2-3 days to try and get roots deeper. My hope is that it will keep the grass thick and green all summer.

That sure seems like a long time watering though so we will see.

 

Did irrigation test today at 7 min per and got roughly .1” in the cups I put out. Thinking I will do each zone for 20 min on Thursday since it will be nice and see how much I get. I plan on trying to get 1/2” every 2-3 days to try and get roots deeper. My hope is that it will keep the grass thick and green all summer.

That sure seems like a long time watering though so we will see.

I have to run mine for an hour. Maybe someday I'll have something better... Pretty sure it takes me an hour to get 0.5". Ugh.

 

I’m pretty sure it takes me over 90min per zone to get maybe 0.25-0.33”. If I want things to stay green (vs just stay alive) I usually need a decent amount of rain.

 

You are all making me feel better!

Thank you.

 

I have decided to overseed this fall with KBG.

I ordered:
After midnight
Bewitched
Everest

I will do a 33% blend of each and 1% TTTF which is my current one.

I am thinking of trying pgr and ordered the iron to see if that will help darken my lawn.

I’m not sure the PGR would be beneficial with my TTTF as it doesn’t spread??

 

Ran all of my sprinklers for 30 minutes today. I will check when I get home to see how much water was put down.

I am thinking of buying Azoxy, Propi, Thiphanate methyl and doing this schedule for my fungicide protocol. I would love thoughts and opinions…

Azoxystrobin 28 days
Propiconasole 14 days
Thiphanate-Methyl 14 days

Rinse and repeat. I would do it at the low rate unless I had some disease issues then I would change to the curative. It doesn’t get real warm here until end of May first part of June usually so I would wait until Mid May which would give me through September.

Would it hurt if I went 3 rounds of some of these or is 2 my max?

 

30 minutes in the back yard does the trick! I will start watering every three days for 30 minutes. Running a test tomorrow in the front yard.

Front yard is getting thick. Back is still new and not really thickening up. The birds eating the grass for the worms is starting to bug me!

mowed both yards at 2.5”. Kind of disappointed in the lines from the roller, I’m hoping it’s just because my grass isn’t dark dark yet.

 

Keep after those stripes. You’ll get em burnt in.

 

Do you keep doing the same path each week until they are “burned in”?

I currently rotate so I will be in an every 4 week pattern.

 

I might combine the azoxy and propi depending on what diseases you tend to see. I get pythium in my lawn often and propi doesn’t do anything for pythium.

If you’re running low rates you shouldn’t go over the annual limits w 3 or even 4 apps.

 

Thank you!

I need to get this ordered. Especially now with the sprinklers being turned on!

 

Now that I have the sprinklers all set. From yard 45 min per zone every 2 days. Back yard 30min a zone every 3 days I think I’m good to go.

the stupid mole is still giving my a hard time. I’ll get the last laugh one of these days.

I noticed in the front yard some damage from the deer throughout the summer and winter. Hopefully it will heal itself sooner than later.