it does seem thicker.

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Don't know if any of these stores are within reasonable driving distance, but I would expect a wider selection and a more knowledgeable staff at one of them.  Not that I'm a fan of site one. But they do tend to know their business.

Site One Landscape Supply houses in Georgia

ETA:  There are a bunch more in Georgia than those three with the big balloons.  You gotta click the "view all" to see them.

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the augusta store is not for from me, I'll check them out in the spring.

Put down 16 oz. per /2k sq feet of Air-8 today.

The problem to tackle next spring ...tying in my gutter downspots and redoing the two french drains the builder put in.. nothing but moss and runoff...

the green moss looks black like mold but thats because i hadnt watered in the Air8 yet.

What's a good product to nuke moss until I fix this? I have moss around some fence posts in the backyard plus some other random spots that don't drain well. Scraping it off and removing dirt with a shovel is what I've been doing.


Water runs down into this low point from the left side of the backyard, the right side of my neighbor's front yard and pools at this point.


It then is crappily drained and pushed out to the street with a bit of V shaped grade and gravel.

I would rather kill the moss for now.

Yes, water collects at that low point before a gravel only drain helps take it out to the road. I have gravel on one side and corrugated with 3 inlets on the other side.

As to everything else, this video is essentially what I'll be doing. His pipe and all.

Good sunset lawn is definitly thicker and holding more green while more slowly going dormant it seems than last year with similiar temps.

low 40s high 30s at night. mid 60s during the day.  soil temp isnt probabky super low yet.

Lawn is sleeping. Turf care was by and added 37 lbs lime over 3700 sq ft evidently while I was out of town this week.

ALL THE SOIL BALANCES FOR LE SPRINGTIME

All the limes. I need to out down some of the moss stuff i got tomorrow.

Georgia can't make up its mind temperature wise. late freeze nuked my flowers. ill be needing help with some front bed ideas. some patches are starting to green but its still 90% dormant.

I'll be putting down more lime next week.  and i need to spray some moss spots. should i wait to do the spring scalping when it greens up? no idea what my soil temp currently is. if i had to guess mid 50s.

Spring update. I need some suggestions for my front beds.

I have an Ewing Irrigation store nearby. I plan on picking up 120 lbs. of non pelletized lime for the lawn, and then mulch (and sand? help drainage? / potting soil)) to freshen up these beds that haven't seen any love other than weeding since the builder put in the plants and pine straw in late 2019.

This is the first bed. I plan on keeping the ornamentals and Japanese holly for the time being. The problems with this bed include moss spots that grow on top the clay due to the lack of good drainage from this bed to lower elevation parts of the lawn and mulch washing onto the sidewalk after a heavy rain. I will be scraping out all the old 2019 pine straw and rocks, etc. along with considering taking the bed clay down an inch or so to stop the mulch washing off during a rain storm. I like the look of black mulch, but need recommendations here. I do not want to do stone, and would rather have larger mulch pieces that do not wash away easily. Question 1: what is the type of mulch I should use? Question 2: Should I lay down sand to help drainage first? Question 3: Should I put down a weed fabric? I am primarily concerned with dealing with visible moss and weed growth until I can plumb drains for this bed under the sidewalk into the lower lawn. This will be de-weeded obviously (I haven't touched this bed since last fall).



Also, I would like to remove the orange clay stains on the facade stone. Any chemicals that work with some scrubbing without pressure cleaning?



This is the bed that I want to replace the plants that are currently there. The bladed plants send runners everywhere that are hard to keep under control. I would like to refill this bed with an edible/medical plant/plants that grow primarily upward instead of spreading out. I was considering fennel or chokeberry. I would like to keep the plants/bushes trimmed and productive under 1-2 feet in order to allow my front doorbell camera to see the entire lawn. Suggestions? I will be taking all these current plants out.





What mulch for my red maple trees? I plan on buying a manual half moon edging tool to get these redefined.



Random backyard section that has seen the benefit of closer denser spraying of chemicals due to its close border with my porch (trying to minimize overspray). What's interesting is that the runner tips are pure black. Nutrient overload? I have another section of the lawn that has this "black " look to it from the condensed area of spraying of extra nutrients ( sprayer tip closer to the ground, tighter spray pattern, etc.)





Thanks again for the continued advice. @Kitties-with-Sigs

When I get to this, it will be with products from The French Drain Man. He has a robust Youtube channel and the pipe he uses is vastly superior to regular 'ole black corregated. I need to collect all the runoff and dump it out of two big pop ups down by my curb. His channel. Is legit.

I got a new job last year and a good raise. Never really cared about how my centipede yard looked because it was always ok but after the raise I wanted to try a lawn service to get a great looking yard. Long story short.after a year and 500 dollars later my yard looks worse than it ever has. Bald spots all over the place. Weeds everywhere. I swear they sprayed a combination of roundup and weed seed. Called the rep out to my house and asked him to explain himself. He couldn't but advised me they couldn't treat my lawn anymore. Asshole.

Mange.

First cut of the year today. Grass hasn't totally woken up, but it's on the way. I put down 150 lbs of this lime over 4k sq. feet:



Project for this weekend is to clean out the two flower beds. I need to profile the big bed to allow better drainage. There are three sprinklers in this bed. I have two turned down, but the last one i need to put a lower flow insert  as it still dumps wayyy too much water that just sits in this bed. They are Hunter spray heads, so I'm assuming I can swap in lower flow insert. Unfortunately, the two beds are on the same zone as the entire side of my house. I need to figure out a way to split the beds off on their own zone, as they dont need to run for as long and flood the bed every time. The pic below zone was on for not even 10 minutes and there is too much standing water.




eta: would love to hear some ideas for medicinal or edible shrubs that I can plant in these beds instead of these imo pointless orinmental plants.

I scalped it today to 1". My mower doesn't go to .5". It was almost 5 55g bags taking it down from 2 2.5" .

I did buy a manual aeration tool. So I will at a minimum stomp lots of holes in the flower beds this weekend. Your deeper root zone concept does make sense. My OCD just hates seeing mulch on my sidewalk lol. I will probably scrape off an inch or 2 of clay out of these beds. I may put down some sand or topsoil before the mulch, but i dont know what i should put down. Landscape fabric is a no go after reading.

I will start the RGS and Air8 rotation. I will also spray all the moss next week.

If you can, check out the Southern Lawn Syndicate group on FB. Someone might be able to help and give you guidance. Dead spots can be anything from disease, fungus, debris under the soil, insect/pest damage, etc.

It does make sense. thanks for taking the time to respond to my posts. I already bought black mulch so I will run with pine nuggets next year. The mulch I got is Scotts weed control stuff that was pine bark shreds and about $1 per bag more than the rest of the stuff at Lowes.

I really do want to change the plants in the beds to plants that have a use. the color is nice, but doesnt give me something to chew on or aloe for the cut on my finger. I eventually want all useful plants and trees.

I've limed these beds as well. I include them in the alternating treatments as well.

Peat moss instead of sand, got it.

Pine nugget mulch will be next year, as I already bought the sq footage of black pine mulch I needed.

Noted. Thanks!

some pics from mulching two beds today. gonna mulch n reprofile the two tree beds tomorrow.


















btw fuck clay lol.

Get some sand, dry it on the driveway and shovel it into your spreader to walk around the yard.  Aeration first is preferred

I did this at a prior house that had essentially sod on top of clay and was having a similar issue with my grass (only my yard looked a lot thinner and not as heAlthy as yours).  The grass took off like crazy. I’d hit it again each spring with more, alternating between sand and top soil. It was one of the better lawns on the street when we moved.

the tamper i was reusing the clay from the dug out edges to fill in low spots and level the beds. i tried to only pack it enough to hold the pieces.

good points. i didnt consider using my spreader to spread soil and sand. i still need to aerate and decide how much i care about leveling my yard right now.

Hey Kitties I hope you’re doing well! You helped me a couple of years ago and now I’m back to ask for further assistance I know you don’t deal with warm season grasses but maybe you can point me in the right direction.
Not sure if this is a fix everyone’s lawn thread or I need to start my own.

I’m in a new build near Houston Texas. St Augustine sod laid in January 2022. The ground is what we call gumbo which is a sticky wet clay, then a couple of inches of sand/clay mix and then the sod was laid on top. So the only soil/nutrients are in the sod.

Everything for the most part is green besides some pieces of sod that never took, and random dead spots where I’m finding builders treasures that were buried. I was told not to put any pre emergent down for the first year on new sod so I’m coming to seek advice for post emergent stuff.

I’ve for sure got the following weeds and probably some more: henbit deadnettle, poa annua, spiny snowthistle, marsh parsley, lesser swinecress, scarlet pimpernel, Common mugwort, common carpet grass, Virginia plantain, chickweed, and garden sorrel.

My research so far has lead me to believe that Celsius and Certainty make for a good combo for post emergent with my current weeds and warmer temps.

I’ve got an irrigation system to water deep in the morning before sunrise.

This past weekend was my 3rd mow and I applied Lesco 20-5-10 fert afterwards and watered in.

Also, the guys who laid the sod did a great job of spacing the pieces out by an inch or 2 instead of touching them so I’ve got a lot of unevenness and divots. Would it make sense to get some masonry sand and try to level things out next month once things get growing more?

Sorry for all the questions at once, I’ve been meaning to post here a little at a time but getting settled into a new house takes all of my free time

ETA: I have not had a soil test done. With it being sod, sand and clay, should I still get one done or wait until next year?

Sorry I didn’t see the other thread, I’ll copy my message over there

grass sure is waking up slow this year I want to see green

Same here. My backyard zoysia is taking forever, it’s looking rough since I scalped it a couple weeks ago. Hope it wasn’t too early.

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Same here.  Trees are waking up slow here too.

Like they KNOW something we don't.

Like it's gonna freeze on Mother's Day weekend again or something.

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would not surprise me. yard is still half brown here. seems really late compared to last year.

finally knocked out the rest of the mulch beds. couldnt be lazy too much longer as today was probably one of the last days in the 70s.







I really need to decide on a fruit tree replacement for my two red maples. something dwarfish that wont get much bigger than 15 20 feet tall and 10ish feet wide.  leaning towards 1 pear tree and 1 tree that bears some kind of fruit that is hard and travels well versus a softer fruit. ideas?

Sprayed a heavy dose of some Moss Out on my perptually shadey moss growth spots yesterday. I need to do this in the fall and over the winter.

Put down some Flagship 24-0-6 magic beans today from the lawn care nut at the recommended rate of 3lb/1k feet.

Nice! I used that stuff last season with good results but switched to their 17-7-6 this year (soil is a bit low on phos). Your mulch beds with the natural edge looks great.

Just finished a mow of the front and sprayed a foliar iron app. Planning to fert tomorrow.