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Comments (7)Glad I asked. I was not expecting those answers plus I used to live in the apts at 10000 Imperial Hwy and worked at the old Rockwell plant. Obviously didn't have to care for the grass there ;-) Back when I was there you could still find cattle in the area. Not anymore. You're watering exactly right, so that's really most of the way to a great lawn. The bermuda and St Augustine will compete with each other in a good way. Unless you want to have the Yard of the Month, I would leave it like that. St Aug will thrive in the shade and either will thrive in the sun. If you mow it as low as 1 inch high, then the yard will always look like a bermuda lawn with weeds. If you mow it at 4 inches high, eventually it will all look like a St Augustine lawn. The reason is the St Augustine's wider blades will shade out the bermuda very gradually. But if you want to favor the St Augustine, you must NEVER forget to water. Sure you can skip once but don't skip twice. St Augustine does not go dormant when it dries out, it goes directly to dead. If that happens, you will have a full bermuda lawn in a few weeks. Since you have shade some of the St Aug in the shade will survive to fight back. You can run that battle back and forth for years if you want. I've done it...kinda fun for a lawn nerd. If you want to favor the bermuda, then search the Internet for the Bermuda Bible and follow that. It requires lots of fertilizer all year long (since you live where it never freezes). If you want to favor the St Aug, you can get away with fertilizing 3x per year (Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving). If you really want it to jump out at you (you said it was not spreading), you can try fertilizing with an organic fertilizer like alfalfa pellets (from a feed store). Apply 20 pound of pellets per 1,000 square feet. If you want it to really go, do that every month for the rest of the season. A 50-pound bag of alfalfa should cost around $12. It also comes as rabbit or chinchilla food. The reason you can use organics in the summer and not synthetic (Scott's) is that the organic does not feed the plants directly. Organic fertilizers are made from grains which feed the bacteria and fungi in the soil. Then the soil microbes feed the grass. By going through all the biology, the grass doesn't get burned by the salty synthetics. It works! Here is a little motivational picture I clipped from GardenWeb last year. That is a zoysia lawn. Note the improved color, density, and growth. That was after 3 weeks. It takes a little time for the organics to work the first time. You'll get the same results, I promise. What else???...See MoreLos Angeles lawn question
Comments (1)Is anything going to help deep clay soil? After four years of aerating, peat moss, proper watering and mowing, tall fescue reseeding with nine area tested varieties, I'm still heaving trouble keeping the lawn thick. Each year it gets a little better but still have to reseed each fall. My county extension agent says I'm doing everything right, but when I took soil samples I hit concrete like resistance at the one foot level! WIll anything break up the soil at that depth? Do products lilke TURFACE get that deep? Would coarse sand help? SOMEBODY HELP ME? I'm a former "Lawn of The Year" winner in another part of Kansas and this is driving me crazy! Thanks...See MoreLos Angeles HVAC Quote Check - Brand New Install
Comments (1)First of all, you don't give the sizing of furnace and AC condensers quoted.. Repost. As to Lennox, it is a distant third in the top tier HVAC brands. One and two being Carrier and Trane and their sister companies Bryant and Am Std. And yes, they think highly of their product. I don't know enough about Maytag other than to say they are part of the appliance brand HVAC companies marketed by parent Nordyne. For the most part the HVAC is identical across the various companies. As to Amana, it is cosidered to be the premium brand to parent Goodman. You should note this dealer is quoting a Distinctions furnace which is a rebadged Goodman. I don't care for that furnace. I would want a true Amana furnace. What efficiency are you looking for? Lennox dealer quoted a two stage var speed 80% model. You might look at one of these Amana furnace models. 80% AFUE AMVC8 / ADVC8, 80% AFUE AMEH8 What size HVAC are you replacing? Post back. IMO...See MoreNew Pool Build in Los Angeles area - a diary of the project
Comments (6)So, it's been a tough few days, as we went back and forth with the PB. They mucked up on the measurements, but - hats off to them - they have owned their mistake. There's no avoiding the fact that we are going to lose more than they, but my interest is in getting a great final product, and I guess the price we will have to pay is a little steeper than we had anticipated! In addition to having to cut about a quarter of our Pergola away, we are also going to be losing nearly half of the remaining lawn, as the WHOLE pool has to move over 2 feet. Instead of a 18' by 7' lawn area, we are now left with a 16' by 5' area. Big bummer. So, end result is we have lost all our swings, and a quarter of the Pergola, and a half of remaining lawn. that's the bad news... The good news (there is good news!) is that the PB came out on Saturday, admitted his error, and we negotiated that he will certainly fix everything so it works functionally and aesthetically (step 1), but also that he will undertake to make some other tweaks that would normally have meant overages, at no cost to ourselves. Additionally, ANY and all further surprises or necessary fixes will be covered by them. So, I've lost a lot of the functionality of my garden, but I'm getting (I hope!) peace of mind for the rest of the project, no financial overages, no surprises that I have to deal with, and the pool I contracted to have built. Granted, we're far from done here (we've only just begun!), but the PB's willingness to step up and take responsibility was admirable. They could have disappeared, as so many contractors seem to often do. They could have forced me to take this to court. Instead, they conscientiously sought to find a solution that would be acceptable to all of us. They are certainly getting the better end of the deal, but they are also sharing some of the pain! So long as the rest goes (no pun intended) swimmingly, and we get a fabulous end result that lasts us for years and years, I'm cool! My daughter's enjoying it, at least!...See Moredschles
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