Lawn Care

[steve dave]

I shut off my water on my new sod yesterday before it went off at 7PM. Going to dry it out today and cut it about 2PM Friday then soak it down for another week. Friday will be 9 days since they laid it. hope the roots are down enough.

Hired this place to do my fertilizing and junk. also to do pest spraying. they said I won't want to aerate it until next year so the roots get really rooted or something. thoughts on this program lawn guys?

http://www.heartlandlawnsomaha.com/services/6-step-turf-wellness-program

they are charging me $50 per treatment (6 treatments a year) plus $150 for a year of pest control which I think is 5 treatments.

peel back some turf and see if you're getting root hold.    If it comes right up like an area rug you probably want to wait.

did this over lunch today. pulls up pretty easy in the corner. will try again middle of next week and put off mowing.

[puniraptor]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

[Rage Against the McKee]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

grubs

[Gooch]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

Spiders. Big rough ridin' brown spiders.

[Rage Against the McKee]

No, spiders eat the bad bugs.

[Frankenklein]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

Neighborhood kids

[puniraptor]

spoiler alert: name 5 of the 7 lawn pests is the final trivia question

[Frankenklein]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

grubs

Don't let the grubs get going or you will have moles all over the place

[steve dave]

@dobber here is my lawn with PBR (12 oz) as reference

[Rage Against the McKee]

what are examples of lawn pests? chiggers prolly?

grubs

Don't let the grubs get going or you will have moles all over the place

Yes, moles are another bad yard pest. Spiders don't even eat them.

[CNS]

Labs do, though.  Mine caught one this yr

[slobber]

@dobber here is my lawn with PBR (12 oz) as reference

i can see why you are getting a bit antsy to mow, but I think you have it figured out. If there are dry spots, you may want to spray them with a garden hose, but you don't want those wet spots setting in water.


Gonna win 'em all!

[slobber]

Also, that is rough ridin' awesome.


Gonna win 'em all!

[Cire]

SD DO NOT cut that sob until it is well rooted.

[slobber]

SD DO NOT cut that sob until it is well rooted.

Relax, he's listening. You think I'd let sd down?


Gonna win 'em all!

[Tobias]

sd I wanna see a bottle of ommegang peering out before you cut that stuff

[cDubya]

Well, I can mow the yard like a boss, but you guys are on a whole different level with the knowledge of grass. I'm in awe.

[CNS]

@dobber

The owner of my house prior to me loved them some lava rock rather than mulch in the planters around the house.  Rock, for some reason, loves it some crab grass(only place I have much of it at all is in these planters).  Can I torch that crap with something that will kill it without killing my moss rose, cone flower, rhododendron, hybiscus, knockout roses, mums, astors, silvia, rubeckia, gailardia, flocks, etc or do I need to actually pull weeds like every other night for the rest of my life(or at least until I get the time to replace the rock with something else)?

[Panjandrum]

Has anyone built a french drain before?  I'm going to need to do that.  The valley part of my back yard holds water like it's no one's business.

I guess the rest of the dudes in my cul-de-sac all have a system of french drains that they rig into each other and dump the water into a creek.  My neighbor was like, "Dude, just hook into mine."

Anyone done this?  Easy?  Hard?

[HerrSonntag]

I've done one before, its not complicated, but it involves moving a massive amount of dirt and backfilling with a massive amount of gravel.

[star seed 7]

yeah.  if you feel like playing around on a mini excavator and skid steer, then do it.  i would never do it by hand tho.

[Panjandrum]

yeah.  if you feel like playing around on a mini excavator and skid steer, then do it.  i would never do it by hand tho.

All right, I'll get this quoted through Angie's List, then.

[star seed 7]

yeah.  if you feel like playing around on a mini excavator and skid steer, then do it.  i would never do it by hand tho.

All right, I'll get this quoted through Angie's List, then.

I assume you are in kc?

[slobber]

@dobber

The owner of my house prior to me loved them some lava rock rather than mulch in the planters around the house.  Rock, for some reason, loves it some crab grass(only place I have much of it at all is in these planters).  Can I torch that crap with something that will kill it without killing my moss rose, cone flower, rhododendron, hybiscus, knockout roses, mums, astors, silvia, rubeckia, gailardia, flocks, etc or do I need to actually pull weeds like every other night for the rest of my life(or at least until I get the time to replace the rock with something else)?

wow, lot going on here. Are you a townie? What kind of grass is growing around those beds?


Gonna win 'em all!

[slobber]

(In your lawn, not the crabgrass.)


Gonna win 'em all!