[95mmrenegade]

What's the most nitrogen you can feed thin bermuda fo get it to spread? I have a couple areas where the 419 is thin due to trees which have been removed. Should I hammer it with Milo every 21 days or so?

 

[viva_oldtrafford]

Milo is a trash fertilizer for rapid growth. Get some 21-0-0 or 34-0-0 and push 1#n/k every week.

 

[Alan]

or 46-0-0 and water well.

 

[SCGrassMan]

Why is it thin? Shade, dry, lack of fertilizer... you don't want to put a pound a week of fertilizer on grass that doesn't need fertilizer.

 

[95mmrenegade]

There used to be trees there that shaded the grass and sucked up the water. Cut them down and removed the roots.

 

[Movingshrub]

Use Fast release. Ammonium sulfate or urea. One pound of N per thousand per week.

Be ready to cut frequently.

 

[95mmrenegade]

Water daily or 1" per week.

 

[Movingshrub]

Normal amount of water weekly - 1", supplement whatever isn't provided by rainfall. You will need to time fert application with upcoming rainfall or with the next mornings irrigation so as to not burn the grass.

 

[Colonel K0rn]

I'm whoring my pictures on many posts... put down 1.75#N/M on 4/20 and 5/14 and we've had 3"+ of rain this week. I had to put on PGR to pump the brakes as I'm having to mow every other day, which would be fine if I wasn't working in a swamp

5/8/18

5/20/18

 

[Redland1]

I'm whoring my pictures on many posts... put down 1.75#N/M on 4/20 and 5/14 and we've had 3"+ of rain this week. I had to put on PGR to pump the brakes as I'm having to mow every other day, which would be fine if I wasn't working in a swamp

5/8/18

5/20/18

That looks awesome.

 

[Redland1]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

 

[Movingshrub]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

 

[Colonel K0rn]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

After watching @thegrassfactor's replay last night, where everyone was making it rain on him, I'm inclined to adopt his method of less volume, more frequency when it comes to feeding. If I can break my feedings up into 0.25#N/M weekly, I think I might have pretty good results. Good lord, 2#N... that's gettin' after it!

 

[Redland1]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

I didn't know that I could go that heavy that often.Mowing is the easy part for me.I already do it 2-3 times a week lol.I still have 11 lbs of 18 10 5 fert left and the areas needing help are 500sq ft and 2k.

 

[Greendoc]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

After watching @thegrassfactor's replay last night, where everyone was making it rain on him, I'm inclined to adopt his method of less volume, more frequency when it comes to feeding. If I can break my feedings up into 0.25#N/M weekly, I think I might have pretty good results. Good lord, 2#N... that's gettin' after it!

0.25 lb N is only 1/2 lb 46-0-0 applied as a spray. Or else 1.25 lb 21-0-0 if you are using that. I get the sense that fertilizer rates are figured for people with ride on spreaders that only want to be on a lawn every 6-8 weeks. I have to think about how much nutrient grass can realistically use in a week before it leaches or runs off. It is not 1 or more lb per week. A part of a 1 lb application is used in 1 week, the rest is carried over into the next week. Most N sources take about 7 days to become active and show a color/growth response. So applying small amounts every 7-14 days largely removes the boom and bust of a fertilizer application.

 

[Movingshrub]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

After watching thegrassfactor's replay last night, where everyone was making it rain on him, I'm inclined to adopt his method of less volume, more frequency when it comes to feeding. If I can break my feedings up into 0.25#N/M weekly, I think I might have pretty good results. Good lord, 2#N... that's gettin' after it!

Likewise on the spoon feeding. The 2LB was during the weeks right after I put down the sprigs.

 

[Movingshrub]

I have some thin areas on my lawn and just put down 2lbs N per 1k yesterday.

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

I didn't know that I could go that heavy that often.Mowing is the easy part for me.I already do it 2-3 times a week lol.I still have 11 lbs of 18 10 5 fert left and the areas needing help are 500sq ft and 2k.

I wouldn't suggest it. It was an atypical situation.

 

[Colonel K0rn]

I did 2lb weekly for a few weeks. Hope your mower is gassed up and ready to go. You're going to be busy cutting.

After watching thegrassfactor's replay last night, where everyone was making it rain on him, I'm inclined to adopt his method of less volume, more frequency when it comes to feeding. If I can break my feedings up into 0.25#N/M weekly, I think I might have pretty good results. Good lord, 2#N... that's gettin' after it!

0.25 lb N is only 1/2 lb 46-0-0 applied as a spray. Or else 1.25 lb 21-0-0 if you are using that. I get the sense that fertilizer rates are figured for people with ride on spreaders that only want to be on a lawn every 6-8 weeks. I have to think about how much nutrient grass can realistically use in a week before it leaches or runs off. It is not 1 or more lb per week. A part of a 1 lb application is used in 1 week, the rest is carried over into the next week. Most N sources take about 7 days to become active and show a color/growth response. So applying small amounts every 7-14 days largely removes the boom and bust of a fertilizer application.

Doc, now that I have my Chapin sprayer set up and calibrated with my foliar and systemic nozzles, how to I calculate how much urea to mix up per gallon of water if I wanted to do a foliar feeding? I bought some really fine prill sized 46-0-0 urea that looks like it would dissolve really easily.

Example, because Maths are hard for me Is it just a matter of saying I want to spray 10K, and I'm spraying 1 Gal/M, so I'd need to put in 2.875# of product into the tank with 10 gallons of high quality H2O?

 

[Greendoc]

@Colonel K0rn How much N do you want to apply per application? 1/4 lb per 1000 sq ft is a good number if applied as a spoon feed. That would mean 5.4-5.5 lb 46-0-0 in 10 gallons of water to be applied to 10,000 sq ft. No need to water that one in immediately after application. Did you come upon the Urea that is the size of pinheads? That is the foliar grade stuff. I can easily get that one. Do not see a lot of the coarse granular one in my state because a lot of nursery and greenhouse growers use liquids run through the irrigation system.

 

[Flynt2799]

Don't mean to hijack the thread but I am having the same issues with my front lawn. Just can't seem to get it to fill in.



This was rough before the scalp, aeration and leveling. Just looking to get some insight on how to get the existing Bermuda to take over. Or do I need to go the plug route?