It was 37F. this morning in Raleigh, but top growth has not stopped. It has been growing rather quickly sience April 16. Meh, your lawn looks awesome for such a short time and having all that dirty snow on it for months!! I just seeded today a small area of my yard with A-4 bentgrass. I just want to see what it does during the summer with homeowner care treatment. The golf courses here are loaded with bentgrass, but they have an Army of people, chemicals, tons of water, and a virtual open check book to buy anything they want to keep the grass green all year long. Keep the pictures coming...

I must be some sort of freak, since too plentiful acorns start to grow even in the carpet of my boat. Oak saplings or just a bursting acorn ready to grow can be moved succesfully and I've done it, to give the orphans a life away from under a GIANT Oak tree shade at my lake. Perhaps a person can't dig up a well established Oak sapling with a big tap root, and I'll never know... but you CAN at least start Oak trees easy as growing petunias or convincing a yellow jacket colony it didn't hurt a bit when they attacked. I've been reading these GW links for a few months, and I can't now properly speak all the Latin names of plants because to me a plant shouldn't be called "phoxliogia excremental" when it's just phlox in some sort ot common name and cultivar. You want to grow Oak trees? There are many, many types of Oaks but each year I have to fight off Oak trees just TRYING to grow all by themselves.. They come from acorns that sprout by the hundreds under a GIANT old oak tree every Spring and we just mow them down like weeds. The bursting acorns WILL soon grow however, if you want to plant them. I just don't know if you can move an oak after it's set deep roots. It's sure easy however to keep an anxious exploding acorn and watch it turn into a tree after you plant it. I just dig a hole and put it into vermiculite and VOILA! Doing absolutely NOTHING with a fallen acorn seems to work even better, but they fall where I don't need another giant Oak and those saplings would soon die in the shade anyway. And besides... how silly would I look someday with an oak tree growing in the carpet of my boat? jimnoak

If it's a water run off, in the regraded part, then you will have a tough time getting seed to grow. I'd buy sod for such a small area, turf type tall fescue sod since you have decent shade. to reduce weeds drop pre emergent in areas not seeded or sodded , then use regular weed be gone on weeds now and in a few weeks. Repeat in mid August.

I can't stand trying to grow things for long periods of time indoors in containers. I try to get things outside as quickly as possible, and I've had good success with that. Just be smart about the time of year you are doing it depending on your area. For example, I used to live in Boston. There I would plant in spring to have maximum time to prepare to survive the winter. Now I live in Austin. Here I plant in fall to have maximum time to prepare to survive the summer. In my experience, growing things in containers sucks. Most potting soils suck. They get sopping wet and then are bone dry 5 minutes later. Plus there are light problems. Sure, germinate the seed under your care to ensure survival, but then I personally would get it outside asap during the appropriate time of year and then protect against rabbits / deer.