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Comments (9)Here is one of your front lawn pix. This shows a dormant bermuda lawn which has been mowed too high. If you can get your mower down to the bottom notch that will help. Or if you can get a mower that mows to 1/2 inch that will help more. Below is a picture of the hybrid bermuda grass you got. In this photo is has been mowed lower than 1/2 inch. Forgive the weeds. I wanted to make a different point with this so the weeds are just free. You can also see the start of a common variety of bermuda as the round patch in the upper middle of the picture. Note the difference in grass blade density and size. Way back when the grass you got was used on all the ball parks and sports fields and was very expensive. Supply and demand being what it is, nowadays it is considered to be 'contractor grade' due to the abundance of it and the super low cost. It is a great turf when you care for it right. As one querky-quercus used to say, he walks on his grass, not in it. I'd forgotten about him. Here is his lawn. He kept it mowed at 5/8 inch. Now scroll back up and look at your lawn pictures. For your hopeless back lawn, I'd just scrape it off with a hoe and seed right onto it. Definitely do not bring in any more soil. Sand is my first choice for grass preparation. If you wanted to 'surface' the soil, use a rented power rake. You can adjust a power rake to slice into the soil just a little bit. You can do that right over the dead trash plants already there and chew up everything at one time. That will prep your surface for seed. Rake off the chaff from the plants and you're good to go. But WAIT! You can't get good results with bermuda until the soil heats up. Mid May would be good for the Austin area. If you put the seed down now you'll have a crabgrass lawn by mid May and your bermuda will be rotten or picked clean by the birds. Work on your front lawn according the the Bermuda Bible while you wait for the heat of May....See MoreBroadcasting Bermuda seed
Comments (27)The larger the carrier/seed ratio, the more accurate your trial run will be. At 20:1, I'd say your calibration run would be pretty darn accurate. I've only tried to run sand though a spreader one time. It was impossible to do until I spread the sand on a tarp and let it get bone dry. One try on my part doesn't make a trend, but it was enough to keep me from trying sand in a spreader again. I can't even remember where I got the sand so I can't tell you what type I used, except that my intuition tells me to use sharp/coarse sand. I'm sure I would have done that. If others have used it successfully, it tells me that it can work. Anyway, from my experience, a trial run is imperative if using sand. You don't want to mix your expensive seed with the sand only to find you have the same problem I had....See MoreGrowing sedum acre from seed?
Comments (0)I am trying to cover a large hillside with a groundcover for sunny sites. I read that sedum acre is aggressive a tolerates hot dry conditions. I bought 60,000 seeds (they're tiny) from a website called outsidepride.com. I have planted them in starter peat pot flats. However, when looking around for growing tips, I have found a few websites that say that this sedum does not grow true to it's cultivar from seed. Is this the case? Has anyone successfully grown it from seed? Thanks....See MoreNeed to make sure HOA is satisfied with lawn no more than that.
Comments (9)Well in regard to the post by treebarb I have been in trouble with the homeowners association more than I would like to mention but not over grass except this last time. I have about 4 x 4 yards of Kentucky bluegrass in the corner near my mailbox. That patch or whatever you call it met the homeowners association requirements even though it doesn't look anything like the rest of the lawn. I certainly don't want to do my entire lawn in Kentucky bluegrass. I may consider pulling out that patch eventually. I really liked the dormant seeding suggestion above them looked on these forums for thread where people were talking more about it but as of now I haven't found a thread in our rocking Mountain regional forum. Consequently yesterday I did a post on Dormant seeding -- Now in the north? thread. I am wondering if somebody here good luck at the link I have just given an answer my question either here or there. I would certainly appreciate that. Does anybody know of a dormant seeding thread for this region? My search didn't yield anything....See Morebrandon7 TN_zone7
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