Thread: Fertilizer scorch, also unexplained mushy patches.
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Old 27-06-2010, 01:16 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Fertilizer scorch, also unexplained mushy patches.
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Another factor. Don;t know how things work over there, but
here in
the northeast USA, all the sod I've been involved with has been
grown
for sunny locations or at least locations that get a reasonable
amount
of sun each day. It's typically blue grass/tall fescue. That
will
not do well in shade. For shade, I've always used a true
shade
blend that has varieties like creeping fescue and gone with
seed.

that and unless you're getting decent sod it's thin
and most people do not really prepare the underlayer
enough, so after a short period of time it is depleted
and starts getting patchy and weedy.

if you're going to sod, make sure to put the money
into what the sod is going on top of too to a suitable
depth...


Agree with the spiking is not aerifying too. A real core
aerator
takes out plugs that are about 1/2" in diameter. That really
opens
the soil up, as opposed to spikes that just compress it more in
the
location next to the spike.

on top of that if there is nothing but clay
and pebbles and they are not putting any organic matter down
in those holes afterwards it's not accomplishing much other
than perhaps drying the hard/compacted soil out further.

after spiking they'd need to get some slow rotting organics
raked in. or at least that is what i would make sure to do
if i cared about growing grass.

but then again, i wouldn't... i find grass to be the worst
kind of weed.


songbird

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