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Help! My very small yard is very bad
Comments (6)You have some un-learning to do, but not much. First of all, the violets are a very serious problem. If you don't get rid of those, you'll never have a lawn. Round Up is the only solution I've seen on the forums in the past many years. You'll have to spray it once, then water the lawn lightly every day to try and sprout any new weeds that might be there. A week later, spray the RU again to kill the new stuff. Then you'll be ready to rake up all the dead stuff and start seeding. By the way, don't start this until August. August is the ONLY time of year to seed cool season grasses like fescue and Kentucky bluegrass. Weed control should be done independent of fertilizer - in other words, no weed-n-feed. Once you have a healthy turf and start taking proper care of it, you should not have any weeds. I wish I had known then (1980) what I know now about caring for lawns. I lived in Dayton and had a mixed bag of ugly grasses. I mowed too low and watered too much. Live and learn, you know. Liquid fertilizer is completely useless on a lawn. A lawn needs POUNDS PER 1,000 SQUARE FEET of fertilizer. Liquids apply fractions of an ounce of fertilizer per 1,000 square feet. I like organic fertilizers. Specifically I like alfalfa pellets (rabbit chow) from the local feed store. Application rate is 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Throw them out by hand, then moisten them (not a drench), and the next day you can drag something over top of the soil/sod to break up all the alfalfa worms that grew from the moistened pellets. This time of year you should be watering once every other week in your area. When you water, water a full inch as measured by cat food or tuna cans placed around the yard. Time how long it takes your sprinkler(s) to fill the cans. That's how long you should water. If you get runoff, stop watering immediately, let the lawn rest 30 minutes, and resume watering. That will give the water time to soak in and hopefully leave the soil more receptive to continued watering. If that doesn't happen, write back. If you start the reseeding project in August, then you'll have time to evaluate your results before the winter cold hits. If you need to add more seed to make the turf more dense, you'll have some time....See MoreVery small Echinops ritro seedlings... pot or plant?
Comments (10)Plant them out asap. Echinops have long tap roots that make them difficult to transplant when big. Make sure to give them plenty of room- they will get pretty big once mature (saw one in town that must have been four feet around). Might be a good idea to put it in the back of the boarder too, since the foliage at the base of the plant becomes rather ugly and yellow after it blooms. The foliage is also very prickly- makes me itch terribly when I weed around it, LOL! Echinops is very weedy here, since it seeds like mad. I try to nip the seed heads off before they ripen, but some always sneak by me. Been thinking of taking it out, but everyone that sees it loves it so I am not sure... CMK...See MorePlanting Hosta Roots Now?
Comments (3)hosta are fully able to handle winter when fully dormant ... eyes are dormant .... so no problem there ... if they have started to grow.. sprout ... the leaves are not able to withstand frost/freeze .... which would be defined as formation of ice crystals within the cell walls ... which will kill/damage the LEAF ... your problem is that they were inside a store ... and therefore.. probably not fully dormant .... they can go back to dormancy if still in eye form .... suspended animation perhaps ... ken...See Morevery very small flies in the basement
Comments (7)how often do you use the bath downstairs sometimes the water in the p -traps evaporates and the flies come up from the sewer keep adding water to the sink and shower once ever month to insure no flies.Just turn water on to thiese items for 2 to 4 seconds this will fill trap up again...See Morelucillle
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