Do some marbles etch worse than others?
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advice please - poa is back, worse than ever
Comments (6)Here's the nut! >"I tried last year to dig out severel problem areas, and then patched the bare spots in with plugs I dug out from my back lawn. Though that seemed to help for last year, I fear I may have actually made things worse, perhaps by disturbing the soil." Yes, disturbing the soil! Poa seeds remain viable in the soil for MANY years. You know they are there, so .... do NOT dig, core aerate or dethatch anytime in your future. Just say NO. Let a sleeping dog lie. Round Up the area/spots, over lapping the area a little bit due to any poa annua underground rhizomes and inter-twined blades with the KBG and apply a pre-emergent to this area - never disturbing the soil. Using a combo product, like say Scotts Turf Builder with Halts is ideal for this purpose. It will prevent any germination while encouraging the KBG to fill and spread into the void with the added fertilizer. >"but in the summer it seems to fade/die off anyway" And this is your clue! You are familiar when this happens in your area every year. Since poa annua dies when drought and heat stressed, so help it! Do NOT irrigate prior. Yes, your KBG may want to go dormant, and if it does, it will recover. Not to worry. When you notice the poa being stressed and browning out, (August???) THIS is when you apply the fall preM, before soil temps drop to favorable temperatures for germinating additional poa annua. Once your fall preM is down, you can water. After Labor Day, feed it ... bombs away. Labor Day, Mid October and around Thanksgiving. Fall IS the best time to fertilize and you want that KBG to fill in those voids. And FYI Halts - Pendimethalin has a 90 day residual Dimension - Dithiopyr " 120 " Barricade - Prodiamine can last 8 months when applied at the heavy rate. You have a longer growing season on LI than I do in Chicago. 2 or 3 apps will be needed depending on the product you use. Come spring, forget the forsythia. That's great for crab grass. Apply earlier for poa annua. Better early than too late. Kill the poa annua and feed the KBG ... it will fill in. Click link below for visual proof. KBG is outstanding at this! *YOU* too can do it also! Here is a link that might be useful: P. Annua Repair...See MoreWorse than Japanese Beetles!
Comments (15)Robert and Kathy, As if Japanese beetles are not enough, your plants get assaulted with these nasty creatures. I'm so sorry. Must be a bumper year for them. I can't say I've ever seen them, but they apparently love grain plants (alfalfa and the like) and they are not just warm zone bugs, like fire ants are. They've been a problem in places like the U.S. Plains and the Canadian Plains, where temps can get bitterly cold in the winter. Yes, Robert, I believe you have found a worse blight than JBs. Sorry about the blister. I googled "blister beetle" and saw some photos of people with nasty blisters from these insects. Be careful....See MoreMarble for some countertops--marble owners would you do it again?
Comments (51)I know this is an old thread. But I know I read old threads when I am trying to make a decision. We put soapstone and marble and wood floors in our kitchen in 2007. So we are going on 8.5 years and I LOVE IT ALL. My kids have grown up with it. We don't baby any surface. To be clear, my style is not slick and modern. I have antiques and an older home so I like traditional materials and I don't mind a "lived with patina"-but having said that I don't think my stone has much of a patina at all. The big island is soapstone. It has a few scratches-mostly from house-sitters and the kids dragging heavy pots across it or cutting directly on it like a cutting board.. But if I oil it (which I do maybe 2-3 times a year) they fade. I did search for a long time and I picked a soapstone that was know to be harder than others with minimal white veining-so this could make a difference. I think we could have the top polished/honed again and it would look brand new. But I think it looks fine. Maybe in another 8 or 9 years. I love it everyday! The carrara marble is around the sink in the most used food prep area of the kitchen. It is honed. I just had a repair company come out (only because we had to do some other work in the kitchen and hubby asked about it) and they honed it again and cleaned it up. It looks brand new (I didn't think it looked bad before). There are a few little pits and chips that cant be fixed-but I don't think they are that noticeable. I just sealed it after the guy left. It was never really sealed before. I have gotten a few stains and I have always gotten them out. I have had etching but I learned how to get that out myself (I use sandpaper-yes and it has worked beautifully for me). I love it every day! We are about to ignore all practical advice again and put marble in our master bathroom. I hope we have as much luck with it as we did in the kitchen. In the next few weeks I hope to post photos of our 8.5 year old finishes....See MoreSome Articles About Resin Coated Stone - Marble, Granite & Others
Comments (7)I don't think its negative, its just the facts about a product. Would you rather be an educated consumer or a bonehead that believes anything they tell you? Its no different than the drugs that are supposed to help with ABC but they very conveniently forget to tell you that there is DEFGHIJK side effects. Or you go to buy a smart phone and the monthly price they told you was just for the line and not the data part of it. Same deal. When I started shopping I knew NOTHING. All I knew was formica and tile because thats all we ever had because you could do it yourself. All these places were throwing all these terms around - solid surface, quartz, natural stone. Each had its hype "this is the best", "you don't want that, its old", "this is indestructable", "its impervious to staining", "you can't chip it or crack it", "you can put hot pots on it", on and on. Than you start to read, there is no best, no its not old, no its not indestructible, yes it does stain, chip and crack and oh yeah you can't put hot pots on ANY of it (not that we do that). I work hard for my money and I want to know exactly what I am buying. We are not talking $1.95 for this stuff. They are all in the thousands....See More
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9 years agoAh! Bardigilio is the exact marble we found and loved--well maybe. It was labeled as a quartzite. The stone yard flat out refused to give us a sample and we are very reluctant to buy without a sample to test. I found a similar looking stone labeled versilys marble at integrated Resources Group in Brisbane and when I called they said they would give us a sample of theirs. Dh is going tomorrow and will look for anything else that might suit.
I'm attaching a picture of the "Quartzite Bardigilio" we found--is that what your Bardigilio looks like? Are you happy with it?
I think you are in the SF area--where did you find it for a good price? And if it's not too nosy, how much was it?
Thank you all!Nothing Left to Say
9 years ago
Debbi Branka
9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoHere is my biggest (huge) etch. I was making strawberry freezer jam and laid the ladle on the marble. I took this in the light so the etch could be seen. When you walk into my kitchen, this etch does not stand out and you don't even see it unless you get down at an angle even with the marble and look at it. I have hundreds of other etches on my 11' of statuary marble. But I love my marble and I USE it. And my family uses it. It's on my island and I love to be in the kitchen.
Nothing Left to Say thanked Debbi Brankashannonj
8 years ago
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