Annual lawn grumpage

[nightfighter]

This year's heat has sped up the browning of the lawn.... We prep, seed, fertilize, lay some sod, etc from May to early June. Mother nature helped out with the watering this year. We don't have a sprinkler system, nor do we entertain the thought of increasing our water bill by some $400, like our neighbors. So the browning began a couple weeks ago. But the broad leaf weeds and crabgrass started to take over! Their shoots would rise up green and proud above the newly mowed lawn within 12 hours! This year I bought some Weed Eater Ultra from Bonide. Warning label was impressive. Two days after spraying the results are coming in and it works. Broad leaf stuff, especially clover and others, withered in hours. The dreaded crabgrass, which normally has its own shade of green, is now succumbing from the tips back down. Should look like I used agent orange in a few more days. I had to stop the crabgrass or I would be lifting out large areas of dead stuff come fall, as it chokes out the real grass and their whole root system. Will start with fertilizing and reseeding in two or three weeks. But at least I won't have to do much mowing.... nor will I be looking at the crabgrass creeping across the front yard.
Perennials, annuals, and tomatoes are getting watered and doing well. Tomatoes are loving this weather. Had to re-stake, and marked the stakes with a Sharpie. Grown an average 4 inches since Sunday afternoon!