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all joking aside I heard if you bury their poop they will not dig in the area. No clue if it works or not.
It depends on the type of crab grass control used.avoiding injuries said:
I assume whatever you do the dog is going to continue to hang there. Any spot seeding would end up looking the same. It looks like a fairly small area. Turf?
Typically beds look better when they are built up, so I usually plan ahead for an area I want to convert to a new bed and just start dumping grass clippings, leaves, yard waste, etc in the area (after trenching around the perimeter of the area). Basically just bury it and forget it. Once you have it built up enough, put down some dirt and mulch over top.
I'm looking at using Zoysia to redo my lawn. I just checked and there are 14 different kinds. Do you know what type you used?
Not one new blade of grass from the 30lb bag of seed.
Empireturf. http://empireturf.com/ And yeah, my lawn does look just like those in the picture.
Dollar spot? I have a couple of patches of that this spring. In the process of wiping it out. It will travel if you have it, walk over it or mow it and then mow another area. I found out how quickly too.
My lawn recovered very nicely from the snow mold and now is lush. Just lightly raked up the bad spots and hit it early with Scotts Turf Builder. All the bad spots from the mold filled in. Everything is looking healthy and green. Been 7 weeks so next week I will be hitting with with Scotts Weed & Feed for the dandelions.
Agreed. Seems so inconsequential compared to all the other way the planet is getting dumped on.
Funny how it always seems so inconsequential compared to what other people are doing...
Not everyone is a judicious in their applications. And some of everything you put down ends up as runoff or filters down to the water table, ending up in your drinking water or causing die off in waterways. That whole cumulative effect thing to consider for down the road.
Clover seems immune to this. I just spent some time digging the buggers out. They wrap themselves right around the grass roots. Very difficult to remove by hand.
There are traces of all kinds of things in our water supply, none of which are to the level of "poisoning our children". Yes, SOME products end up in the water in trace amounts. SOME products are designed to degrade within a couple days to a week. However, the statement I was responding to wasn't close to saying the same thing. That's why I asked the question.
I have the same question. I'm going to need a good solution for my back yard. It's 90% shade and what's back there now isn't sufficient. I was going to try to see if there was a fescue, bluegrass blend out there. I have a neighbor down the street who redid his yard last fall and it looks pretty good so far this year. I'll ask him what he used.
After years of fighting this, I have given up. I have tried multiple blends of seeds(some specifically made for sgade) but the results are always the same. It comes in ok in the fall, but by the next summer it thins again.
it is, but it's along the walkway right up to the front door. there's a large pine tree and i have some 6' tall ferns that add more shade to it. i just really want grass. i have a succulent garden on the other side of the walkway
I don't think you'll get an argument that pesticides kill pests/insects etc. The problem I have with this shtick is that water sampling suggests we have a ton of other things more significant and concentrated to worry about in our water system (like arsenic, disinfectants, nitrates, lead/copper and millions of different medications) than we do herbicides. I should have probably left this alone to begin with, so this is my last post on the subject.
I can't turn my entire back yard into natural area though. I'm going down the fescue/bluegrass route to see how that works. I couple years of dumping 50 lbs on a 1/4 acre should give me something to work with.
I agree but when we are talking poison ivy in the same yard my son wants to play in well it must go.
