Feels good to have the approval of your spouse in doing the lawn, doesn't it!! This is mostly echoing tiemco. The idea with waiting 2 weeks after fertilizing is so that the weeds will be very healthy before you come in and chop their little heads off. Healthy weeds absorb the herbicide better than sickly weeds. Part of that recommendation is also to get people to stop thinking about using Weed-N-Feed products all the time. Timing is the issue with those, so fertilizing first and following up with herbicide (spot spray) later satisfies most everyone. The first year it sleeps. The second year it creeps. The third year it leaps. That is the credo for all ground covers except creeping charlie and kudzu. KBG will seem slow at first but in 2 years you'll be laughing about any setback in the first year. The herbicide will take out the weeds. Insasmuch as they might have provided significant coverage with no KBG mixed in, then maybe you will have bare spots. If so then I would suggest using good compost as a mulch on those spots. The compost/mulch will keep the ground from getting hot there and sprouting more weeds. Watch the spots for weeds and pull them as soon as you see them. Deep infrequent watering and dense grass is what keeps the weeds from coming back next year. Bare or thin spots are an open invitation to weeds. Sometimes Mother Nature comes along with a week of rain that will sprout weed seeds. That, of course, doesn't help. If She does, then Halts or something with preemergent qualities might be appropriate.

Hi Al, Thanks for the welcome!! I don't know what zone I'm in, but live in Wisconsin. And of course, thank you so much for the answer. I'm so happy to hear that I will have them next year. One more question, since they are so gnarled and curled (they are about 2 feet high) I would like to cut them to about 5-7 inches above the ground. Should I pare them down or leave them. I'm am worried if I shorten them now they won't bloom next year.

Unfortunately I think it may already be too late for the TRES. They had their eggs taken out by most likely a HOWR or HOSP, although I did see the Blues on top of the house before I went out and found that the TRES eggs were gone; is it possible the Blues took out the TRES eggs? I am still trying as hard as possible to kill those Sparrows. Let me tell you, they have become so smart and sneaky! When I see them go into the house, I run out and cover it with a pillow case and stand out there for about 10 minutes shaking the box to get them to come out. I eventually give up, but I never even see them come out of the house anyways. I can't tell when they're in the house or out, and when I see them on the ground and get my pellet gun, they're gone in a flash. And I went out to get their eggs, but holy heck, they have the most ugly and messy nest I have ever seen from a HOSP. It doesn't even look like a nest, just a box crammed with junk. I don't even know if I can find the eggs in there. I will keep trying, and I won't give up till I succeed. Thanks for your help.

I didn't have any tres this year. The *&^% wrens made sure of that. Congrats on your babies :) Karen