On Mon, 10 May 2010 11:55:49 -0400, "Dan L."
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brooklyn1 wrote:
On Sat, 08 May 2010 17:35:01 -0400, "Jean B." wrote:
brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 07 May 2010 13:29:52 -0400, "Dan L."
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In article ,
brooklyn1 wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2010 09:10:27 -0700, "Bob F"
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Pete E. Kruzer wrote:
I'm trying that new grass seed that Scott has, guaranteed to grow. It
seemed to work for the neighbor.
How long should I wait before I have pre-emerge applied to prevent
crabgrass?
I'd probably wait until all the grass has started growing.
I'd wait until next spring. There is only a short window for applying
pre-emergent crabgrass killer... once the crabgrass seeds sprout it's
too late... read the directions for when to apply in each zone.
Crabgrass pre-emergent has nothing to do with turf grass, it only
prevents crabgrass seed from germinating. For this season all one can
do is dig up grabgrass by hand... defoliants work but then there will
be lots of large bare spots.
I find the best and non toxic way to keep crabgrass and other weeds down
to a minimum, is to put down a fast growing perennial grass seed like
rye or a tall fescue in early spring that does not spread by stolons.
The faster growing grass tends to over crowd the slower growing weeds.
I have had it with the so called slow growing Kentucky Blue Grasses or
any grass that spread by the stolons. It is much easier and far cheaper
to over seed the yard each spring than to use the old WEED and FEED
toxic garbage. With grass that does not spread by stolons, it is also
easier to maintain a natural looking edge without those plastic or metal
edging materials 6 inches in the ground.
My opinion - the rye grasses look better than the blue grasses.
A nice organic yard will take a few years to get but worth it.
Ok, I'm off my soap box now. Start the insults I can take it!
I don't use any chemicals, my lawn is composed of probably a hundred
different plants... I mow, it's green, the critters fertilze.
My first mowing this season... yesterday:
http://i41.tinypic.com/11jvpg2.jpg
And one can't even tell it isn't grass--from a distance. Good!
Had ya all fooled... 48,000 sq yds of astroturf! LOL
If your yard is like mine...
let us see what the yard looks like before you mow, not after 
Mine looks like a pasture
Here's mine... now show me yours.
http://i40.tinypic.com/qs5w6d.jpg
I've no idea what you consider a pasture... to me a pasture is land
used to keep/pasture livestock (not a lawn area) typically more bare
ground than green, which is why farmers constantly move livestock from
pasture to pasture, to give the green a chance to recover. In very
early spring my lawn areas are short brown grass with large areas
covered with snow. As temperature rises the snow melts and the lawn
areas green up and begin to grow. I don't base my first mowing on the
height of the growth, I wait until the ground becomes dry enough to
support the weight of a tractor.