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Posted: Jul/18/2005 2:23 PM PST
Just for clarification, Lime shouldn't be added to your lawn unless a soil test indicates the need for raising your soil's Ph. If your professional lawn service is applying lime randomly without testing the soil first, I would find another service. |
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Posted: Jul/17/2005 11:44 AM PST
For all you folks batteling the lawn, don't forget to use lawn lime in the early spring , I have been using it for 3 years now and what a diffrence it makes. I first learned about it when I noticed all the lawns that are cared for by proffesional lawn services had a white haze on them one spring , so I stopped and asked one of the guys what it was all about and he told me that the addition of "lawn lime" helps the grass take up the nutrition of the fertilizer. As I am in a cold climate my lawn goes dormat in the winter and turns a brown color . After adding the lime in the spring along with the fertilizer it is just a matter of days before I have a beautiful lush green lawn again. swindyi |
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Posted: Jul/18/2005 5:12 PM PST
U go John! Always check pH first. Also one application of lime should be good for multiple years. "Lawn lime"? what the devil is lawn lime? Do they mean burnt lime, coarse or fine ground limestone, pelletized lime, ? I don't do anything but mow mine when my wife tells me it needs it for about the third time. The only reason to have lawn is cause you haven't gotten around to gardening it yet. Sorry felllas, but youse guys who get all bent out of shape if a blade is out of place need to get a life. Thsi is probably the first and last i will ever post about lawns. Lawns, BAH HUMBUG! |
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Posted: Jul/05/2005 8:20 PM PST
Juno, if your weather has been anything like mine...hot and dry... it might make the lawn go dormant early. i've wondered if that's possible. i water and water but all the August-like weather has got me thinking. |
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Posted: Jul/05/2005 7:32 PM PST
Thanks for all the thoughts....I will have to do some checking to see if I'm watering enough....or check to see if there are any grubs in the roots. Dunno for sure yet....I've never had a problem with grass.....except this year. I'll keep trying! |
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Posted: Jul/10/2005 4:53 PM PST
Cut your grass short, (but not more than 1/3 of the blade at once), rake in compost with a leaf rake, spread the seed with a whirly thing, rake it lightly again, and keep it moist. I sprinkled it morning and late afternoon depending on the weather. I also used Whitney Farms organic lawn fertilizer. If you need to seed a lot of lawn, I'd wait till fall. It would be a constant battle with the summer heat, unless you laid straw over it. Don't know about grass clippings, Psycho. Would they mat down with watering? Seed takes only about a week to sprout in the summer. I used Scotts Sun and Shade mix here in the Northwest. |
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Posted: Jul/18/2005 3:39 PM PST
On a new lawn you are only suppose to use 10/10/10 fertilizer or it kills the nitrogen level that the grass needs to grow/live. I have an acre I have been trying to do in sections and the front where we have made a fuss over is the only green grass in the neighborhood. We water it daily because we have had no rain here to help with the new growth. The backyard; we could not keep up with; the only thing living is weeds. Isn't it amazing how the weeds grow in this hot weather? And how the grass grows in the flower beds where you don't want it to? LOL A nice lawn actually takes three years of fuss....I am sure with patience (which I have definately ran out of at this point where the lawn is concerned)we will have nice lawns! Good luck! |
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Posted: Jul/06/2005 3:16 AM PST
Foz, you have to spread compost, or topsoil, or triple mix on the lawn first, rake it in a bit, then scatter the seed over that. |
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Posted: Jul/06/2005 3:17 AM PST
ok....i gotcha! thanks, BB! i've got a few weak spots in my lawn and need to do something about them. |
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Posted: Jul/18/2005 2:32 PM PST
To kill any grubs get a sprinkler with a reservour like the ones you use for miracle grow but a sprinkler. Instead of fertilizer put a bottle of mild dish soapor any other organic cleaner in it. Water areas in early spring with this about an inch per area. Grubs breath thru their sides and if you can have the soap break the air/water barrier they drown. It helps keep skunks and racoons from digging up your lawn and gardens too as they are digging to eat the grubs under the soil. it is non toxic to all other life forms too LOL Plus you then have fewer japanese beatles and earwigs and as this is what the grubs grow up to be |
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