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16 years ago

Where are you located and when will you get your first mowing in?

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rdaystrom
16 years ago
Southwest Arkansas. Mowed my Sahara Bermuda (Not spring weeds) although it wasn't solid two weeks ago. About mid march.
User
16 years ago
Eastern Pennsylvania. First mow will probably be around April 15, Tax Day. Give or take.
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Good info. Be sure you have no leaks in your sprinkler system and that the sprinklers are throwing the water and not dribbling. The 90 degree F temp was too high to use any chemicals. That's why the fungicide didn't work. Read the label and you'll find you are very limited as to the times of year they claim it works. In Texas that time of year is about Valentine's Day. The rest of the time it is too rainy or too hot. Since 2002 I have been very happy using ordinary corn meal to kill disease in my lawn. Cracked corn works fine, too. Corn gluten meal is a similar sounding material but costs a lot more and does not seem to take care of the disease. Ordinary corn meal is what I'm talking about. Apply at 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet and water it down (not in). Just wash it off the grass and you're done. Reapply in 3 weeks and any disease should be gone in a month. The corn is a biological approach that brings in microbes that feed on the disease microbes. This time if year you should be watering no more than once a month in northern Utah. That should be a deep watering of about an inch. When you get an inch of rain, then you don't need to water. I hate rain birds. The only advantage they have is being able to throw water upwind. My absolute favorite sprinkler is the oscillator. The new turbo oscillator sprinklers are great. I have five of them at two houses and will be getting a sixth next spring. They apply water very evenly and very slowly to allow it to soak in without runoff. For a rectangular yard like yours, they would be perfect. Mow at about 3.5 inches when you mow. If you want to use Scott's chemical fertilizers, follow the directions for timing. I think you went a little heavy in the past 6 weeks. If you want to apply organic fertilizers that frequently, GO FOR IT. You cannot over apply organics, and they just make the soil better and better. Generally lawns need nitrogen once in the spring and twice in the fall. The twice in the fall come once after the summer heat breaks and again right before dormancy. Your timing in the past 6 weeks seems too close together but it might have been exactly right. Just seems close together. One of the lawn gurus on another forum has tried to overdose with organic fertilizer. He's applied up to 50 pound per 1,000 square feet per week for every week of the growing season. The only thing that happened is his KBG lawn remained green deep into December and greened up again in January. From that experiment I say you cannot overdose with organics. Try that with chemicals and you'll sterilize your soil for years. If you want to take your lawn to the next level (once you have control over it), get a soil test at Logan Labs in Ohio. Their $20 test is much better than most university or county extension service tests costing up to 5x more.
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zhotster
16 years ago
When the snow melts here :). I'm guessing around May 10th!
philes21
16 years ago
Roger THAT, Zhotster. I didn't know we were that much different from Morph, down there in sunny, tropical Pennsylvania, but as I look at the lawn (the snow is fully melted away, finally) and look at these gray, 40 degree days, I can't imagine needing to mow in two weeks. Heck, I'd just like some sun in the next two weeks. Fifty? Can we get fifty for temperatures? It's gonna be an auction here, gimme forty eight, four? We have forty four, thank you, can I get six? Forty six? We have forty six, can we get forty eight? Forty eight? Six, we have six, can we get forty eight? Sheesh.

And Morph's gonna be out there mowing? And probably walking around, acting like he owns the darn place, maybe even having a beverage. Aw, man, I hate March, I surely do.
User
16 years ago
didn't know we were that much different from Morph, down there in sunny, tropical Pennsylvania

HA! Tropical no. Marine-influenced temperate, yes.

Forty eight? Six, we have six, can we get forty eight? Sheesh.

We've been doing that as well, although today only hit 45. Yesterday was 62. Still and all, the national soil temperature map shows me as ten degrees warmer than northern Michigan and just about the same as Chicago, currently.

March is always odd. I should be running warmer than that right now. It'll catch up.

And Morph's gonna be out there mowing? And probably walking around, acting like he owns the darn place, maybe even having a beverage.

My robot will be out there mowing, I will be sitting on the deck enjoying a beverage. I've already wandered around and done some replanting, cleaning up, and encouragement of the gardens (which are coming back fast), and acted like I own the place. :-)

Actually, technically, the bank owns the place. They just let me live here.
dllfb
16 years ago
mmm...calling for snow again tonight...in southern Ontario....still about a foot in our yard...so not for a while yet! lol
caesar772
16 years ago
I have family in Toronto. They are very tired of the one foot snow fall each storm. Nice here in Ma, up to 50 today, no snow in sight.
firstandgoal
16 years ago
Hey vtec, How is that new TTTF doing? Did it make it through the winter ok?

It's been hovering around 80 here in Oklahoma City the last few days, although a cool front came thru tonight and blew all the warm, humid air away. We call that free A.C. this time of year. lol

I'm breaking out the lawn mower about April 10th or so.
vtec
Original Author
16 years ago
Hi FandG. The Lesco Tri Gold TTTF did great. There are some spots in the back that I didn't hit as well because I was running out of seed and went to think with the slit seeder. I will need to work on those this fall.

The front filled in great and was looking fantastic toward the end of fall and I'm really excited to see how it turns out this spring / summer. It is not a very dark green yet but the color is very uniform and I think its' going to look fantastic in a couple of weeks

Thanks!
masondad
16 years ago
SE WA.. I mowed last week to even out the top of the grass (make it look nice). But looking at cold weather and possible snow... should be a few weeks before I see much growth. Maybe fertilize in mid-April, then mow the next week.

Mark
turf_toes
16 years ago
Probably this weekend. This time of year is strange. Certain sections of my yard are up and growing. Other areas seem to just be waking up.

But I want to stay on top of the stuff that is growing. So I'll probably get the reel mower out tomorrow morning and give it a quick buzz.
medula_oblongata
16 years ago
I'm in Frisco, TX and I put down a bag of Sulphate of Ammonia two weekends ago and it now looks like my bermuda is on steroids. There is a foreclosure next to me that is empty and I can easily see this line in the grass that separates mine from theirs. I will probably be mowing this weekend.
davek913
16 years ago
Northern Indiana here. We're still on the cool side and things haven't really started to wake up. I would say it'll be a couple, few weeks before we have enough growth to mow.

I do plan on putting down a pre-emergent early next week to hopefully stop the crabgrass cycle we've had the last couple of years. We have a couple of younger neighbors that don't take very good care of their yards(Not necessarily overgrown but fairly weedy) and don't realize the effect it has on the surrounding yards with the seeds spreading all over. I didn't have a chance to put down a PE last year and it turned into a bad season for the junk.

My primary task will be going around and repairing some huge piles that our friendly neighborhood mole has pushed up in multiple spots near sidewalks. The little SOBs better be glad I don't have time to sit around with a pellet gun.

I personally am looking forward to it although I probably won't feel that way in the heat of July. It's been a long winter and it'll be good to see things greening up and growing again and besides, my DW bought me a new mower for Christmas and I'm anxious to see how she runs.(The mower, not the DW. :-) )
bpgreen
16 years ago
Salt Lake Valley (between Salt Lake City and Ogden).

I'll wait until it grows tall enough. The snow has melted, grass is green, but not getting any higher. Rain and/or snow in the forecast.

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