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Allisa50 Joined: 7/15/2007 Location: Gig Harbor Posts: 2	Posted: Jul/15/2007 6:40 PM PST Hey there, I've just moved here from Dallas. I've never seen grass like I have in the back yard here. It is wispy, thin, surrouded by tall pines. It is loosing it's green color quickly...I've just been here a week....I'm used to either bermuda or St. Augustine. This seems more like a weed then a grass. Sorry don't have a photo of it...I'll take a sample to a local nursery tomorrow but thought someone might know what it is.....very wispy, soft on the feet..sorry no photo. Thanks for your time, allison Quote \| Reply \| Report

sweetlebee Joined: 5/09/2005 Location: Posts: 19587	Posted: Jul/16/2007 11:01 AM PST Hi Alissa. We usually grow a rye, fescue, and blugrass mix in the NW. Grass is going to struggle under those tall pines, or cedars, because they really hog the water. If it was very green when you moved in at this time of year, the former owners either watered it constantly or used a chemical fertilizer to make it green up quick. My neighbor has cedars on the other side of her fence and they have a dead zone in the corner of their backyard as a result. They're from Austin and keep trying to have a nice lawn, but you do have to have a good understanding of growing grass in this climate to accomplish that. Quote \| Reply \| Report

Allisa50 Joined: 7/15/2007 Location: Gig Harbor Posts: 2	Posted: Jul/16/2007 12:31 PM PST thank you sweetlebee! What fertilizer should I use on it? Is it usually done every 8 weeks or so like in Dallas? Quote \| Reply \| Report

sweetlebee Joined: 5/09/2005 Location: Posts: 19587	Posted: Jul/16/2007 12:59 PM PST I use Whitney Farms organic lawn fertilizer. It doesn't force the grass to green up immediately. Eight weeks between fertilizing sounds about right. It sounds like your grass is doing what grass does during the hot summer here. You don't want the clay soil to completely dry out, but you also don't want to overwater it because the grass won't send its roots deeper in search of water, which is what protects it during droughts. Give it an inch or two of water a week until the rainy season starts in October, and don't forget your fall fertilizer. Then there's the moss, cranefly grubs, crabgrass, and clover to look forward to in the spring. Quote \| Reply \| Report

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