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Sure you can. Pre-germinate the seed. Get the seed you want put it in a burlap bag with some mulch and place it in a 5 gall bucket of water in a sunny area for 5 days. After that, take the mulch/seed mix and mix again with more mulch and fill in your bare areas.
I like the way you think. I've never done this and I have no idea if this will work, but for the price of a $30 bag of seed this is worth a shot. This reminds me of the days where I used to grow weed, but I used wet paper towels instead. If this works, I'm throwing a lot of good karma your way.
I'm going to start soaking my seeds as soon as a get my hands on a burlap bag. I'll know within 2 weeks whether this will work so I'll certainly report back.
Some seed varieties will germinate faster (harder seed coats) so take a peak after 3 days and if you see the seeds swelling, turning red. If so, then they're ready. Good Luck!
Lol there weren't many. I also don't have a huge yard so it isn't so bad as long as there aren't more that sprout up. Crabgrass and chickweed are going to be the death of me!
If you start talking about trimming your grass with tweezers I'm going to call you out on it.
For my heavy watering, that's what I do. I typically run each zone twice a week usually between 4 and 6 am. I'm talking about an additional light watering in the late day just to cool the grass down after a day of 90+ degree temps. Because say I water in the morning on Monday and Friday. If there's 90+ degree temps all week, that's 4 days where the grass is getting cooked without any relief. I'm just not sure if that relief in the form of a light watering even matters.
How early are we talking? I would think that any water that doesn't immediately soak in and left on the grass is going to burn off as soon as the sun gets hot.
Used before and it did well. Nothing unusually noticeable from any other products I have used. I used the kind you hook up to the hose and spray. I would use again but I mostly use the Scott Snap System stuff for most of my general weed control.
Pretty much everything I have used has taken them out of the one or two that pop up.
What kind of grass do you have? We use "tall fescue" as our grass around here. You're talking as if it's a weed.
Kentucky blue grass. This article explains how tall fescue looks like a weed when you have it in my kind of lawn.
So, does blue grass go dormant and turn brown? We have a lot of mixes in this area that incorporate both blue grass and fescue because the blue grass does so well in the heat.
Can you let it go dormant then dig the fescue out? Don't know how much you have, but that might work.skillz said:
Unfortunately I think that may be my best option. At least it's mostly in my backyard and not all over.
OR....plant more fescue and have it take over...green grass all year up there I'd think.
You probably have "turf" fescue.
I know this question is a few months old, but went unanswered, so here ya go. It is not that watering later in the day is bad, but watering in the early morning is the most effective because of the the cooler temperatures and the sun not being out. When you water during the day when it is hotter, a significant portion of the water is lost to evaporation before it gets to the soil.
If it were a fine blade fescue (red, chewings) it would probably be fine blended in with the bluegrass. But the common Tall Fescue is a rather course weedy looking grass much like crabgrass of quackgrass, it just looks out of place and is not a nice turfgrass. There are varieties of tall fescue that are a finer blade turf type grass, but that is probably not what is in his lawn.
Right it looks like crabgrass, weedy and out of place which is why I need to address it. At least with crabgrass I could put weed and crabgrass killer on it. I could use round up grass killer on the fescue but then I would have brown spots on my lawn. I may just have to dig the chunks out and reseed those areas.
That's about your only option. Crabgrass can be killed with a herbicide because it is an annual, but the tall fescue is a perennial like the lawn grasses, so at the moment there are no herbicides that can differentiate between the tall fescue and the bluegrass.
At the moment, I have nada.....they laid the prettiest fescue sod I've ever seen come off a truck in mid-May (despite my opposition). Had to water that stuff a couple times a day really deep, then brown patch set in because of the temps (why I opposed in the first place). Shortly after the brown patch set in, two of my irrigation zones quit working (electrical problem from construction traffic all over my yard for 8 months), so now....it's nothing but weeds and that nutsedge crap. I plan on doing some major work this fall if they aren't willing to put more sod down.
You're best bet is probably going to be a zoysia of some sort....it goes dormant during the winter though so if you want green all the time, fescue is probably going to be your best bet and you just manage the problems you face in summers like this one accordingly.
I've thought about zoysia. I have fescue now, but with the lack of rain and loads of sun, it doesn't always hold up well. Plus when they put the sod down, they didn't put any topsoil down, so the sod is on clay, which doesn't help the weed issues.
That's been the problem. When it's rained here this summer, it hasn't been a nice steady rain. We've gotten a ton of rain over short periods, which doesn't really help the grass.
Lol we have the same problem. Never had crabgrass before, but last summer I was hammered with it. Used Scott's Crabgrass Preventer this spring to help take care of it. Didn't work at all come this summer.
Really not much shade at all. The sun rises in our backyard and starts being full sun around 7-8am during the Summer and doesn't start getting shade until about 3-4pm. The front is in the shade usually until about 10am and sees full sun until about 6-7pm in the Summer.
Yeah, it's probably dead. Just manage the crabgrass best you can.
It's going to be a lot easier...I soak the crap out of my yard if we haven't had rain when I am going to aerate. Obviously, if it's just going to make a mud pit in your yard, that's probably not a good idea. If you are "sinking" into your yard while you walk on it, or water comes out from under your shoes while walking, it's probably too wet.
Yeah I know some rain is good and makes it a lot easier, I'm just worried since it's pretty much rained since Tuesday here. Slight chance tomorrow, but the sun hasn't been out so the yard is definitely soggy.
