Can fertilizing a lawn be done at the same time one uses moss killer?
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Comments (4)If you truly have a virus throughout your collection there is no cure. If you have a known virused plant and it is not very special, you should have tossed it out. Forgetting about virus for a moment, to get mealy bugs do a 5-step approach. 1-alcohol with a small amount of dish soap in a sprayer. Remove and brown material from the plant. Spray the plants one at a time all over using lots of the spray. This will destroy flowers, but if it is as serious as you indicate, they need to be sacrificed. 2-Set a plain water spray bottle for a strong stream and wash ALL bug bodies away. Any crevices and leaf joints wash with water. 3-Spray the whole plant with Bayer Advanced Rose and Flower insect killer. 4-Start using Bayer All in one Rose and plant care as directed. This will keep bugs from coming back. I never see aphids or mealybugs. This is effective for scale also. 5-replace your ant stakes. They are the most likely source of mealybugs....See MoreMoss planted w/ Bonsai (fertilizer burns/kills moss)
Comments (5)Thanks for all the great advise. Simple fix - I've inserted slow release 10-10-10 bonsai fertilizer pellets into the soil and AWAY from the clumps of moss. So far, for the past 10 days, the moss is doing great, and the fertilizer is reaching my trees that are slowly waking up from their winter nap. As long as the moss is spread out in clumps with open spaces for pellet fertilizer, everything should be fine. This way the pot won't get saturated with moisture, and the trees roots can breathe and get fertilized. The type of moss I use doesn't like the grainy bonsai soil, so I've put muck dirt under each clump. With the cold damp 35 F degree nights, and the warm 50 degree days, my moss is thriving like crazy (as long as I spray-mist it with water every day). I've collected about 5 square feet from our property.....I found so many new species of moss that I never knew they grew around here. What I'm doing is using slabs of 24" x 12" slate, and creating micro-environments with some bonsai, driftwood, rocks, various soils, and the most important part - MOSS. I'll post some pictures in the gallery by this weekend. David in zone 5 b...See MoreCan Either of These Be Used as a Lawn Fertilizer?
Comments (8)Both would be fine for a gentle feeding, and the alfalfa is applied for the growth hormones more than the nitrogen anyway. Using alfalfa, 10 pounds per thousand would be great, up to about three times per year. Don't call it a good feeding, though, as it only provides about 0.2 pounds of nitrogen per thousand square feet. Going higher, however, overdoses the hormones. For the layer pellets, I'd be comfortable going all the way up to 50 pounds per thousand (1 full pound of nitrogen per thousand square feet). Monthly, if you so desire, although I tend to recommend taking June and July off (organics applied in early August won't be available until August 20th at the earliest anyway, which is getting close to the correct time). By contrast, soybean meal would be a 1 pound N per thousand feeding at 14 pounds per thousand, but these other two look really good as soil conditioners and ways to slowly increase organic matter....See MoreLawn Issues - moss in lawn, clay soil, well irrigation system
Comments (10)" 1-2 hours of direct light a day " You will not get any variant of any type of grass to grow successfully under these conditions that will ever please you. It'll sprout. It'll grow for a while. Then struggle. Then die. 1-2 hours of sun per day is deep shade to mostly shady. All grasses are at least part sun--absolute minimum and strongly prefer part shade to full sun. People will tell you that you can grow grasses in lower light conditions. This is sort-of-correct, with massive amounts of care and constant coddling. Sometimes. But tree edges aren't conducive to that, and it usually involves a lot of northlight and/or reflected light. You don't seem to have that. My advice? Embrace things like bleeding hearts and other very pretty low light plants that are beautiful and appropriate to moist, low-light areas. Or embrace the moss (edit to remove incorrect info). Fun fact: Moss killing is really reliable if you're out spraying your lawn with iron sulfate. Your standard 2-4 oz per gallon solution, sprayed on moss, will take it right out. Dish soap...not so much unless reasonably highly concentrated, enough so to be an issue for other plants (salts will desiccate many other plants as well as mosses, particularly younger and more tender ones). Save a plant, green it with a light dose of iron instead of wasting the Dawn in the yard for that particular purpose. I use a quick shot of iron in the gardens in fall and let the moss bodies decay over winter, a warning to other mosses to beware. :-) Plus I get a little moss on the north face where the hose sits. No biggie, but if I'm standing there......See MoreHU-720265407
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