Front door frustration - please help.
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Comments (5)Even though you're watering program is crazy, I disagree about the fungus, at least not unless I see something else. Your watering program could not be any worse. It would be helpful to know where you live, but your watering program has developed a grass with practically nonexistent roots and possibly hydrophobic soil. I am one of those neighbors who never fertilizes and never waters. I mean NEVER. Here is a picture I took today. I took the picture because it shows the contrast. The grassy area under the trees used to look like the foreground. We came out of a severe drought in 2012 and suddenly all that grass was there. I had not watered it...until I saw it was there. Since then I have watered about 5 times in there. All I can think of is there was some straggler St Augustine from years ago before I moved in. We must have had some perfectly timed rain, because that's 2,000 square feet of lawn I didn't have before the drought. I might add that I live on the more humid edge of the Texas desert. It gets very hot and dry when you drive west, but we get temps in the 100s every summer. My point is that you're watering waaaaaaaaaay too frequently to have healthy lawn. Many times people write back here to say that all they changed was their watering and that cured their problems. Here's what I see with your situation. You have short little roots. Why? Because they are still saturated from yesterday. They do not even need to enter the soil although they will have some presence there. So at the slightest provocation the roots can dry out leaving the grass looking like that. You respond by raking out the old grass (fescue I presume), adding more topsoil, and reseeding. Adding more topsoil raises the soil level above the surrounding soil causing a mounding effect. That mound requires slightly more moisture because you get a slight bit of runoff...because it is a mound (opposite of a hole). Third, you have the confluence of two slabs of steaming hot concrete right there at the corner of the lawn. I am betting that that area gets full sun during the day to heat up the concrete. That hot concrete remains warm all night heating up the soil and increasing soil evaporation. I'm also guessing that your sprinkler only barely touches that corner of the lawn. If that is true then this is probably the only good thing you have going on. But I think you have the "perfect storm" of events: Short roots, mounded soil, and hot concrete. The solution for that would be to wean your lawn off the daily watering and be certain that corner gets as much water as the rest. You'll end up watering the concrete along with the grass. Ideally this time of year, if you have regular daytime temps in the 90s, you should be watering once per week. If you haven't yet reached the 90s, then water once every 2 weeks. At this point you're shouting back at your computer to call me crazy. But remember how much I water?? What you need to do is deepen the roots on your grass. By withholding water bit by bit, and watering deeply when you do water, the grass roots will grow deeper and deeper. Put some cat food or tuna cans in the yard and time how long it takes to fill them from your sprinkler. That is your target time for watering. Every time you water that is how long you should do it. Then you can adjust from there for factors like shade, cloud cover, temperature, wind, humidity, soil type, mowing height, etc. I have obviously backed way off of weekly watering even with temps in the 90s. There are other circumstances in my yard, but you won't likely benefit from what I'm doing, so there you go....See Morecan you please help me find a sink? weeks of frustration...
Comments (20)We pretty much love everthing about the sink. Aside from the looks which we obviously liked and the fact that no one we know has one, it has been pretty much maintenace free. There are certain foods which strip the color off and leave shiny bright copper spots. But within a day the sink starts to patina(darken) and it looks seamless again. And we've poured plenty of hot and boiling water down the drain and it's never been an issue. Copper is also naturally anti-bacterial so that's another added bonus. We also heard some of the warnings about the copper from Mexico. I will say ours is stoutly made and it weighed a ton. I went with one of the ebay sellers who had been around for awhile and looked through alot of feedback. That's about all I can think of to tell you. If you want I have pics of what it looked like before it was used and how it looks now after a year of use with no more upkeep other than soap and water....See MoreHelp me choose a front door handle! Need help asap, please
Comments (7)Those selections won't work for your front door. Those are interior door knobs/levers. You need a lockset for the front door and you have to know whether you want a mortise or tubular set. If you take close up pictures of your current door, lock, and the jamb, a local hardware place would be able to tell you what you need....See Moreplease help with shutter/front door colors!
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