crab grass -LOL
 

you grab the friggan shovel and with your right leg dig the crab grass out and throw it on the drive way to bake it dead.

the rest you stuff it back in the hole :rotf2:

thanks Karl.....just what I was looking for....something for both

Don't put fertilizer with crabcrass preventer (Halts) down until 1st or 2nd week of May! I have done this for over 20 yrs and have no crabgrass in my lawn. Crabgrass doesn't sprout until ground temp reaches about 65dF plus the barrier only last 90 days, so if you put it too early you will have late season problems. Additionally the Halts chemical barrier should not be broken, i.e. by raking!

Put down a general fertilizer now to get lawn going and Halts in about 6 weeks. I buy 2 bags of Scotts Winterizer: one for Fall and one for Spring. Mine went down 3 weeks ago!

man this lawn chit is for the birds....I guess you can't have new seed without crabgrass????? what am I missing here...:jump1:

New seed is OK now as it will have more than enough time to germinate before crabgrass season in about 5 weeks.

thanks Phil....I know what you mean about the crabgrass, late summer and it starts.....now I'm really pissed.. it looks like the 2 rhodys I planted are dying...ugggghhhh...those weren't cheap

Fools....all fools!!! They are weeds.....let the sun burn it brown and enjoy more fishing time!!:smash:

lol....your funny :rotf2:

I don't water and grass goes brown (I hope) July/August! Comes back in September.

Use Turf Builder 4 times a year of the 4 use the weed and feed varieties twice. Use grub control in the spring. cut it every week. water it every 2 days unless it rains. dethatch and aerate it every 4 to 5 years , overseed when you aerate it. Lime it as needed , determine that by soil tests.

If you do all this you will have a lawn so beautiful and healthy you will love the look of it but hate it when it grows so well you need to cut it every 4 days instead of once a week! :)

Fertilize, lime, water, primp, fuss and then (provided you do not own a well) your grass looks great for about 4 weeks then.......WATER RESTRICTIONS!!! So whats the point???? As brown as mine will be.....and I spent no time fussing over mine! All that money and time out the window!:wall:

I live in a designated lawn war zone.

If'n ya can't eat it
ferget about it :soon:

Don't know if it grows in New England but when I lived in VA I had a Zoysia lawn, turned brown in the winter and started to green when the dogwoods bloomed. Choked out absolutly everything else and the hotter and drier it got the better it looked. A little fertiliizer once a year and presto. Grows best in sandy soil...

zoysia comes in plugs and is popular out west

Fire Belly Organic Lawn Care | Natural Lawn Fertilizers | Organic Fertilizer

but here is an organic way to fertilize your lawn

notice the jugs of corn gluten

they rid your lawn of dandelion which is an indicator
that your soil ph is too high like 7.5 instead of 6.5

I live too close to the water to put stuff down on my lawn...which sucks because my lawn looks like crap until about mid june....

rosa ragosa (rose hips) will grow there

Won't be long before needs mowing!

Rocky would be proud!!!

set your mower height at 4 inches

Set high, no bagging, mulching to feed the earthworms are return nutrients to soil, cut about every 4 days once the ritual starts..

If the height gets away (miss a day or 2), better to cut 2X with an hour rest to let the 1st cut clippings partially dry in the sun before run 2. I find this is actually quicker/less energy than trying to bag the clippings.

whens the last time you sharpened that blade? eh watson?

longer grass out competes crabgrass. No need for those friggin chemicals. All yer doing is helping dupont and making the marshes less habitable for flounders and stuff.

Whatever I do - do the opposite.

2X per season!