🏡 Better Homes Lawn Lords and Garden Gentlemen

[Stink Star]

Any of you guys have dogs to worry about? I'm pretty hesitant to start putting down a bunch of shit with a two dogs running around in my yard

You can literally eat milorganite so that stuff would be no problem. Of course it doesn’t kill weeds, it’ll just make your grass grow like crazy and darken it up

 

[Stink Star]

I do that every year twice a a year and still keep getting it

I’ve found that just an all in 1 fertilizer doesn’t do much for crabgrass as even that is applied too late.
I do a spray of prodiamine about 2 weeks before I do my normal spring fertilizer and it takes care off all the crabgrass....until summer dormancy anyway. I need to learn when to do a 2nd application.

 

[DanJ]

I’ve read preemeegent you’re supposed to time around 55 and 70 degree soil temp. I’ve been poking around on www.domyown.com and have found its pretty easy to buy professional strength products and dilute yourself. You can get Prodiamine (barricade pre emergent) at $75 for 5 pounds. Application rate is 4 oz per 1000 square feet in a tank sprayer. That brings my cost per application to about $15. Granted a bag of Scott’s Halts to cover the same are is about $18, but my Home Depot doesn’t stock it, and I feel the liquid is easier to apply.

 

[FESTER665]

Any of you guys have dogs to worry about? I'm pretty hesitant to start putting down a bunch of shit with a two dogs running around in my yard

Yep. I usually try to use the liquid fertilizer and I’ll apply it before i leave for work so it’s good and dry when I get home. Then for the next few days will wash the dogs feet when they come back in....

really thinking about switching to a service next year that uses better more organic product though just in case.

 

[FESTER665]

Anyone use an irrigation system? Thinking about having rain bird spec one out to see what it would cost...

 

[DanJ]

Anyone use an irrigation system? Thinking about having rain bird spec one out to see what it would cost...

Id like one but it isn’t in the cards for the next couple years. Turk has one I know.

 

[GTPpower]

Anyone use an irrigation system? Thinking about having rain bird spec one out to see what it would cost...

Like underground sprinklers? Or are you talking about something else?

 

[The Beast]

I’ve read preemeegent you’re supposed to time around 55 and 70 degree soil temp. I’ve been poking around on www.domyown.com and have found its pretty easy to buy professional strength products and dilute yourself. You can get Prodiamine (barricade pre emergent) at $75 for 5 pounds. Application rate is 4 oz per 1000 square feet in a tank sprayer. That brings my cost per application to about $15. Granted a bag of Scott’s Halts to cover the same are is about $18, but my Home Depot doesn’t stock it, and I feel the liquid is easier to apply.

I’ve heard this stuff is awesome

 

[DanJ]

That’s supposed to be the real deal for crabgrass, and the big perk is that you can overseed after with no ill effects. My garage is starting to look like a dock warehouse in Beirut. Carbon earth X start fertilizer and seed for the backyard came in today. Just need to keep watching the weather and hope it cools off by mid late august.

Soil Temparature Maps | GreenCast | Syngenta

www.greencastonline.com

 

[FESTER665]

Like underground sprinklers? Or are you talking about something else?

Correct, underground sprinklers.

i hate dragging out the hose and all that, my lawn is dormant right now because I’ve just let it go, really need to get a sprinkler system setup for next year...

 

[Blood on Blood]

Like underground sprinklers? Or are you talking about something else?

underground sprinklers, isn’t that an expensive water bill?

 

[GTPpower]

I have underground sprinklers. My lawn would be brown every year if I didn't. Do you guys not need them there?

 

[Ron Vogel]

My lawn sucks overall, but these little battles are satisfying when you win

 

[The Beast]

That’s supposed to be the real deal for crabgrass, and the big perk is that you can overseed after with no ill effects. My garage is starting to look like a dock warehouse in Beirut. Carbon earth X start fertilizer and seed for the backyard came in today. Just need to keep watching the weather and hope it cools off by mid late august.

Soil Temparature Maps | GreenCast | Syngenta

www.greencastonline.com

Do u have an aeration machine ?

 

[DanJ]

Do u have an aeration machine ?

Nope. Plan on renting one from Home Depot or rental max and splitting it with my dad.

 

[The Beast]

Nope. Plan on renting one from Home Depot or rental max and splitting it with my dad.

U are close to me if u want to spilt it let me know. 3 way split. Landscapers don’t charge much by the way

 

[01Cobra]

Milorganite deployed in perfect timing

 

[DanJ]

U are close to me if u want to spilt it let me know. 3 way split. Landscapers don’t charge much by the way

Id use a landscaper but I want to make multiple passes so it made more sense to me to just rent the machine versus trying to dictate how a landscaper does his job.

 

[GTPpower]

Moles are killing me this year. But I got two last night.

 

[Shawn1112]

Moles are killing me this year. But I got two last night.

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Are those the pricks that dig holes in your yard? Rear part of my back yard something dug a nice size hole and I'm assuming they are living in there

 

[DanJ]

That or chipmunks. I have on an average day 8 different chipmunks in my yard. I on occasion catch bugs and let them outside, so killing chipmunks isn’t on my list of things I can do.

 

[Turk]

As far as I know, chipmunks aren’t too bad for yards. Moles and voles are the worst. I have a vole problem.

 

[The Beast]

Bunny’s will make holes also and best in your yard

 

[DanJ]

The chipmunks have one hole in my yard but they don’t make raised tunnels so I leave them alone. We have a few stray cats and foxes that come through at night so I just let nature sort them out.

 

[GTPpower]

Moles dig tunnels just below the surface. Makes the soil really soft and the grass usually dies.

I call them gophers, but they probably the same thing as your chipmunks. They dig a few holes, but don't usually cause much damage. But I still poisen them.