Author: The Turf Doctor
Wild Violet control 2019
For many years controlling wild violets in residential Turfgrass has been extremely difficult. The reason control is so difficult is the underground structure is very Woody in nature and extremely difficult for herbicides to basically finish the control. Even herbicides like Roundup, that advertise “killing plant’s roots in all” , very often would take multiple […]
Weeds, Weeds, fungus, and more weeds
With soil temps warm and daily rains, we have 2 constant issues arising. Weeds & Diseases!1.Weeds- nutsedge and summer annual weeds are germinating daily! If you have unacceptable weed populations between our visits please contact us for a service call.2. Diseases – if you are on our preventive Disease Control package, we typically treat every […]
Brown Fescue ☹️
Getting several calls/emails concerning the browning of Fescue /Bluegrass/Ryegrass. Right now almost every lawn looks like a brown Bermuda lawn! Basically, with fluctuating cold spells during the winter, the foliage gets basically frozen, inside and out, which browns the leaf blade. We’ve had a few single-digit cold snaps, so it’s more exaggerated this January than […]
Welcome to August!
The weather has been more favorable this summer than 2016! However, the moisture through early August has presented some issues. The crabgrass preemergent is now been depleted, due to the wet summer. You will notice spurge, crabgrass, and nutsedge invading curbs already. We will get these weeds under control with app# 5,which begins next week. […]
Preds before Patch!
I am looking to barter out services for a full year(or more depending on lawn size) = 6 basic apps, 3 disease controls, and aeration and overseeding. If you have lower bowl preds tickets and if by chance you care more about your grass than one game , PLEASE call text, and email me! 6153946867 […]
Why your Bermuda or Zoysia lawn looks like crap right now
We are getting a lot of calls about how terrible customers Bermuda or Zoysia lawns currently look. Here is the situation. We apply pre-emergent to prevent winter weeds. Unfortunately we did not have a winter this year so the pre-emergent ran out before it was time to apply the spring pre-emergent. Also we are normally […]
This ain’t no turfgrass!
What the heck is growing in my landscape beds and lawn. Looks like white sonora wheat? Anybody know what this is? It came from the straw bales we used as Halloween decorations, but I can’t id pasture grasses. Is this wheat? Rolled in bud, insignificant liquile,abe 1 clasping auricle.
Time to irrigate!
Lawns are starting to really dry out now so make sure your irrigation is active and running. Please apply 1 inch per week if we are not getting an inch of rainfall the week…
Got Frost Damage?
I received an inquiry from a customer today that included the above picture. From the picture, I thought this was possibly a herbicide injury. After reviewing our records, I noticed it had been a month since our 1st treatment of this lawn, but the injury appeared last week after a mowing. We assessed all 10 […]