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3-5-14 Soil Temps
Tested soil temps today from just under surface to 4 inch depth. Temps in Full sun right under surface right at 40. Temps rose only slightly to 41 @ 4inches. Therefore, shaded soil temps still in 30’s,so all touch up seeding done in early 2014 still just sitting there doing nothing! Germination will not come […]
Warm Season Replanting Plans?
If you have low cut, high traffic bermuda, you better be spend the extra money on Ronstar or at least Oxadiazon generic. Otherwise, you will have to waste money on Charcoal when you sprig or sod this year. Ronstar not great on crabgrass, but excellent on the goosegrass you will be fighting this summer, especially […]
Frost Heaving!
Haven’t seen this in a while in our area. We have been touching up seed jobs this week. Haven’t had to break up the soil in most lawns because the freezing and thawing cycles over the past few weeks have done it for us. Basically, ice crystals form below soil surface and grow towards the […]
Winterkill
What is needed for winter kill on hybrid Bermuda? I have found 3 consecutive days with single digit lows will cause significant death on hybrid Bermuda in two situations. If mowing height is one inch or lower or if an area gets lots of traffic, like between hash marks on football field.. The best case […]
Ohio Turfgrass Conference
We recently attended the Ohio Turfgrass Conference. There were several new products we looked at. The most exciting was RENEWtrients! RENEWtrients offers economical organic fertilizer in granular and liquid form. It is a poultry fertilizer that does not stink! The manufacturing process produces electricity and a sustainable, non burning plant available fertilizer, that returns organic […]
Here’s your sign!
When we make an application to yards, we put a small sign in them with the date treated on it. There are two reasons for this:1. So the homeowner will know we have made an application 2. So the mowing companies know when the lawn was treated. We try to time lawn applications after lawns […]
July Soaking rains
So, its always nice to get SOME rain in the summer. However, the soaking rains we have received over the past 10 days have also completely exhausted crabgrass preemergent, and caused a nutsedge and weed explosion. Not to mention, if soils get a wee hotter, Mr Pithium will kick in. We will begin our late […]
Zenith Zoysia
This was planted about a month ago at the rate of 1.5 lbs seed/1000sq ft. It is a viable option if you are tired of planting fescue every fall. However, it should be planted during the month of May or early June. Also, the first summer, you will have to tolerate the weeds that germinate […]
Brown Patch “Lurking”
This cool wet spring has been excellent for cool season root growth. This is the first time in many years timely soaking rains have allowed us to have ZERO need so far for turf irrigation through mid May! However, there is a price to pay for all this water just as soon as the warm […]
Irrigation
It is time to make sure your irrigation is up and running. Please make sure your irrigation company also checks the programming. Remember, deep, infrequent irrigation is the key to reducing Nutsedge problems in the summer.