EVERYTHING is wrong with my AV! Please help me!
Kailey
8 years ago
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Comments (1)I think you're killing your lawn with kindness. I assume you have a fescue or Kentucky bluegrass lawn (or mix). It sounds like you are watering far too often. Once you get temperatures into the 90s every day, then you should be watering once per week. With temps in the 80s you should be watering once every 2 weeks. Why? Couple of reasons. One is that crabgrass seed must have continual soil moisture for several days to germinate. Without that, it cannot germinate. If you water once, deeply, the surface of the soil will become dry long before the root zone dries out. Just doing that prevents crabgrass. PREVENTS! You don't need a preemergent if you just do that. However, sometimes Mother Nature steps in to ensure there is continual moisture. That is when you might need a preemerge. The second reason is that if you water every day, the soil dries out down below and the roots only grow at the very surface. If you miss a day of watering, the soil surface can dry out and kill the grass. But if you water deeply, the grass roots will penetrate as deep as they need to to find that moisture. Growing deep roots takes time if all you have is short roots, so don't try to go cold turkey with your watering plan. You should wean the grass off of the "day and night" watering until you are watering a full inch, once per week in the summer heat. Doing that will stop most new weeds. It will not kill out the current crop of crabgrass. There are some herbicides that apparently work. I'm an organic kind of guy and have not had appreciable weed problem in a long time, so I don't keep up with herbicides. Someone else will come along and help with that. What I would do is suffer along through the summer. Then in early September (in your area) I would kill off the crabgrass, rake it up, reseed, and try to establish as dense a turf as you can before next spring. Crabgrass is an annual plant so it has to come back from seed. If you are watering correctly next year, then you can have all the seed you want but it won't sprout on the dry soil surface. Crabgrass is lighter color than most turf grasses. That might be what you see. Otherwise, have you fertilized? Usually that evens things out. If you want an absolutely hassle free fertilizer, use organic anything. My favorite is alfalfa pellets (rabbit chow). Get it at your feed store in a 50-pound bag for about $15. Apply at 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Since it comes in a plain bag, there are no directions to read and hassle with. Just apply at 20 per 1,000 and let Nature take Her course. In 3 weeks the grass will become much greener, more dense, and will be growing slightly faster. Here is a demonstration picture taken by mrmumbles a couple years ago. Organic is also no hassle because you cannot over apply it. If you double the dose, it just lasts longer. If you apply as much as 80 pounds per 1,000 all at one time, you do run the risk of smothering the grass - not to mention severely denting your lawn care budget....See MoreWhat's wrong with my AV? Help needed
Comments (30)it's a healthy looking plant - you panicked! don't get discouraged. it's just an AV ;). get yourself another and play with it. pulling off a leaf does not hurt the plant, unless it only has 5 leaves :). removing a decaying leaf is a GOOD thing.. i just uppotted a medium one and pulled off 6 bottom older more yellowish leaves to make it look more symmetric, which was half of the last row (was looking lop-sided). it's only when the plant is too young or weak that you need to mind how many leaves to remove. well, within reason...of course. a thought on watering: when you let a plant dry out too much (to 1/4 pot as you said) - that's too dry. you then need to rewater by bottom watering: letting it sit in the bowl of water for 15 min. if it absorbs all water, you need to add some more and wait another 15 min. if it sucks up all of that, give it some more! letting it dry to 1/4 pot often is not good for av - it's too much stress. if it has a lot of leaves, it might start dropping them if it does not get enough water to maintain them. temp: 79F is too high for av's. 70-75F is the optimal range. higher then 75F - they will need more watering. the larger the plant, the more water it will take. consider trying wick-watering in the future, especially for larger plants. it's very easy . well, you can still go to your mother and instruct her on upkeep! i am not down-playing the dangers of chemicals. but it might just be that you did not water/feed it properly....See Morehelp! please tell me what's wrong with my veggie plants
Comments (20)Find a local gardner to help you...tomatoes and peppers need at least 5 gal containers and larger is better...be sure and put a handful of epsom salt in planting hole of tomatoes and peppers, can add around plant and water in... (will prevent blossom end rot and also help grow healthy plant)....blight is bad and needs to be dealt with early in season....watering plants correctly is critical...not enough plant slowly dies...to much and plant slowly dies (lack of oxygen). make sure soils drain good...i use hydrogen peroxide when watering sometime (16 oz 3% per 5 gal water to help supply extra oxygen to roots)...make sure water is chlorine free (let sit in open container for 24 hrs) or garden hose chlorine filter...hope this gives you some ideas to think on...also foliar feed with good compost tea (pull up dirtdoctor on web for good compost tea formula) ...the indian...See Moreplease help me figure out what is wrong with my tomatoes
Comments (5)I don't think you have a disease. Your plants are struggling with the new conditions (weather and soil change). Did you harden them off slowly, for at least a week? I am in southwest Ohio at the northern edge of USDA zone 6, and we have had night time lows in the low 40s for the past few nights. I'm not going to plant my tomatoes out until the lows are reliably in the low to mid-50s. The other possibility is that you sprayed them with something that burned the leaves. I used an organic insecticide recommended by a garden center one year, and it almost killed my plants. If that's not a concern, then the chances are they'll recover once their conditions improve....See MoreKailey
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