Is Your Grass Greener?

[medicchick]

If you have dogs that will use it, there is plenty of maintenance. The smell can be a serious issue without treatment.
Worst part - many of the treatments are toxic.
I'm looking into tearing my turf out of the back yard and put in a little patch of sod I can just water with a hose.

My inlaws have a yard like that, 30'x12' roughly, front and back. The whole lot is an acre but they just have two patches of nice grass. I'm stuck with crappy sandy soil.

 

[Brill]

Whar brand of grass seed, feed and food does everyone like?

Last year I got seed from Costco and will do same but just increase rate over last year. I’m going with tall fescue again except for a volleyball spot I’ll be tinkering with using bent grass (like putting green).

For fert, I use Milorganite exclusively.

 

[Devildoc]

I usually get that contractors mixed grass because it will mostly grow in anything. But if anyone has a better suggestion I am open. Tomorrow I will spread 10 10 10 fertilizer and nitrogen and then probably do my first overseed at the end of the month.

 

[Topkick]

I'm one of those guys who cuts too short and let's it burn up so I don't have to keep cutting every two weeks.

I swore I'd never be like the old guy next door on his shiny Cub Cadet who cuts his grass twice a week, waters every evening, and always makes the neighbors look bad. I am now gradually becoming that guy. I don't think its something you can control. I just bought a Cub Cadet.

 

[Polar Bear]

I usually get that contractors mixed grass because it will mostly grow in anything. But if anyone has a better suggestion I am open. Tomorrow I will spread 10 10 10 fertilizer and nitrogen and then probably do my first overseed at the end of the month.

Contractors mix has rye in it, it will not come back year after year. It is better to plant in the late summer fall. You get 2 growing seasons. Fall and spring, stronger roots. When the ground temp is over 50 degrees grass will grow. I always use Scott’s tall fescue.

 

[Devildoc]

Contractors mix has rye in it, it will not come back year after year. It is better to plant in the late summer fall. You get 2 growing seasons. Fall and spring, stronger roots. When the ground temp is over 50 degrees grass will grow. I always use Scott’s tall fescue.

OK. North Carolina, little shade, can have hot and dry Summers. What is the best grass? I don't want to golf course, I just want something.

 

[Gunz]

OK. North Carolina, little shade, can have hot and dry Summers. What is the best grass? I don't want to golf course, I just want something.

When I was living in Charlotte, I dug up my yard and replanted with (IIRC) Red Fescue...and it did very well.

 

[Polar Bear]

This is what I use most of the time

 

[Polar Bear]

OK. North Carolina, little shade, can have hot and dry Summers. What is the best grass? I don't want to golf course, I just want something.

You may need something diff....do you have lots of clay?

 

[Devildoc]

You may need something diff....do you have lots of clay?

Yes...

 

[Brill]

This is what I use most of the timeView attachment 26822

Shouldn’t you be using...Kentucky Blue Grass?

 

[x SF med]

I'm thinking of just pouring concrete in my front yard and painting it green.

Lush green color year' round - and plenty of extra parking without the fear of creating a mud-hole or killing the grass.


...of course the Home Owners Association would probably pray for my ruination if it didnt look exactly like every other yard in the neighborhood.

Astroturf.

 

[LibraryLady]

Astroturf.

This from the man who wanted to buy a push mower for a acre of land that's mostly tilted.



LL

 

[Brill]

Heard about this site while listening to a lawn podcast. Looking for an average of 55 degrees to throw down pre-emergent to stop crabgrass.

Soil Temperature Maps | GreenCast | Syngenta

 

[LibraryLady]

Heard about this site while listening to a lawn podcast. Looking for an average of 55 degrees to throw down pre-emergent to stop crabgrass.

Soil Temperature Maps | GreenCast | Syngenta

Soil Temperature Maps | GreenCast | Syngenta

55? That's like a couple months away for us.

LL

 

[Topkick]

Heard about this site while listening to a lawn podcast.

Not sure I'd make it through a lawn podcast w/o gouging my own eyes out, but that is good information. We are at 50- 55 degrees for the next few days but I'm sure we'll get cold again.

 

[Brill]

Not sure I'd make it through a lawn podcast w/o gouging my own eyes out, but that is good information. We are at 50- 55 degrees for the next few days but I'm sure we'll get cold again.

I put on 500 miles a week...only so much politics even I can stand.

 

[x SF med]

to get back on track... Lawn's still white, getting more of God's dandruff today.

 

[Polar Bear]

Cleaned up thread

 

[Brill]

Always could use good yard clean up!