Need advice! My first lawn.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agogardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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advice on first steps to trying to fix front yard lawn
Comments (4)" That leaves fescue and your only grass possibility unless you want to take down the trees." that sounds simple. ill look into getting fescue seed. "Now is a bad time to plant new grass but a lot of people do it. Those are the people who complain in July that they have a full crabgrass lawn. That's what happens if you seed new grass in the spring. You get all the summer weeds. If you want to nurse this lawn through the summer, then late August is the best time to seed the fescue." okay. ill nurse this lawn through the summer and seed fescue in august. so nursing means trying to keep on top of the weeds (really, the lawn isnt that large, so i think this is doable) and watering whatever i have that is green deeply and infrequently. correct? ill plan on that. ill pull out those weeds in the strip as well and try to keep it bare over the summer till august. im not in any rush. i just want to do my best to try to have the yard looking better than what it looks like now....See Morefirst season new lawn...need watering advice
Comments (3)Unfortunately, spring is not a good time to seed cool season grasses. Late spring is even worse. Depending on how thin and how big the thin spots are and how much of the grass is KBG, it may fill in on its own. If not, you'll want to overseed. I was going to ask if the company offered any kind of guarantee, but it sounds like they took off on you anyway, so it's probably moot. I'm afraid you might be too late for a fall seeding in your area. Do you know the date of the average first frost where you are? Wisconsin is a pretty big state, and there is probably a huge difference from one part to another. If you're in southern Wisconsin you might have time for an overseeding, but you want about 6 weeks before frost to do it. If you have time to seed now, you want to cut the grass as short as you can, and either core aerate or slit seed. You want to keep the surface moist until the seeds germinate, so if you're not getting any rain, you'll need to water a couple of times a day. Once the seed germinates, slowly increase the amount of water you apply each time you water and decrease the frequency. The ultimate goal is to apply an inch a week all on the same day. If it rains, you need to adjust the amount you water to take the rain into account. If it's too late for a fall seeding, your next best option is a dormant seeding. For that, you wait until it's too cold for the seed to germinate and overseed. The freeze/thaw cycles and the melting snow will bring the seed into good contact with the soil. When it warms up enough, the seed will germinate. You won't get as much germination as with a fall seeding because you'll lose some seed to birds and insects, some may germinate then die in a freeze, some may wash away, etc. You'll probably still fare better than trying to seed in the spring and keep it alive through the heat of the summer. If you're far enough north and the summers are mild, spring seeding may not be as bad, but from the description of what happened this year, I think you're better off not trying a spring seeding....See MoreLawn service has girdled my trees. Need advice on replacement.
Comments (15)Personally, I don't like the looks of either, and at the least it would take 2-3 years to "heal", but could fail some time down the line. Which would mean replacement then, the responsible party may then claim no responsibility, and your delay in having a new plant established to do what you wanted in the first place. In addition, in the second pic there appears to be very small buds growing from just at ground level, if so, I take that as a bad sign the the tree is basically in panic mode and believes it is dying. Lastly, I see no sign of callus forming in either pic (maybe I'm missing it). In short I would try for replacement of them all. The responsible party can go to a tree farm and buy HEALTHY replacements there, assuming they actually have a business license. Again, you can bet yours aren't the only one's in this condition, and the responsible party needs motivation to do their job correctly. JMHO Arktrees...See MoreHelp!!! My lawn is terrible need advice
Comments (54)I'm not using a sprinkler. Just a hose with a nozzle attachment (I mostly use "shower"). I don't trust sprinklers after the disaster the first day. I think the damage has been done though...most of what I see coming up is along the front sidewalk, so I think that POS sprinkler that was put out there for a day washed a bunch of the seed down hill to the sidewalk. And to the base of the electric box, which is kind of funny...apparently enough dirt got washed on the base to grow out of the metal electric box. I think since that first fiasco with the sprinkler, plus having to walk through the seed bed to remove the sprinkler, it's not really nice and smooth anymore, so there's a little puddling, but it all manages to soak in and go away within a couple minutes... not like it stands there for hours. Right now I'm just waiting to see what I have for day 14. I guess I could also buy more seed and chuck it out by the handfuls to the areas that look to have washed out and see if anything happens lol I just don't know whether to blame the failed areas on the rough start with sprinklers, the time it took to feel like I had a good balance of how much water to give it, or the seed itself. Or impatience (it is supposed to be a "slow-growing low maintenance" seed after all...)...See MoreEccowing
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