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Turf
Hi i have just put some turf down in my garden it is doing ok but bits of it are going brown and dying i water it every day but it doesnt help what can i do that wont cost a fortune as im not that well off.
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Chris,
I have the same problem but don't water it that frequent so any help would be good for both of us. Cheers Sled |
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Weed & Feed Products
Sled wrote:
Hello, I'm a novice but passionate about getting my lawn looking beautiful. Following much research, I think I understand the fundamentals of lawn care and I am now trying to source the best products to treat my lawn through the seasons. I'm currently using Evergreen Complete (first time) but I think this is a public consumer product and definitely not what a professional would use. What do the pro's use to periodically weed and feed their lawns and who vends these ? Any help would be much appreciated. never buy a product labeled weed and feed. Thanks Sled -- Sled |
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Weed & Feed Products
"Jim" wrote in message ... Sled wrote: Hello, I'm a novice but passionate about getting my lawn looking beautiful. Following much research, I think I understand the fundamentals of lawn care and I am now trying to source the best products to treat my lawn through the seasons. I'm currently using Evergreen Complete (first time) but I think this is a public consumer product and definitely not what a professional would use. What do the pro's use to periodically weed and feed their lawns and who vends these ? Any help would be much appreciated. never buy a product labeled weed and feed. I'll second that. The best products may vary from region to region, but the best product is never a "weed-and-feed." It's an indiscriminate use of a pesticide (herbicide) that's unnecessary. If your lawn is in such bad shape it needs a weed-and-feed you should consider starting over. In the south, Lesco produces some high-end fertilizers that include mostly slow release nitrogen and little or no phosphorus. A good source of products and information may be a company that deals in commercial agriculturre / lawn care products such as Prosource One. They have a wide variety of fertilizers of various compositions for special needs and should be able to advise you - you'll find them in major agricultural areas and they also service golf courses and the like. To see what you're up against, go to http://prosourceone.com/product_cata...duct_type_id=1 and figure out which of that page of fertilizers is the one you want for your lawn. A good first step may be to take a Master Gardener course where you live. That will get you into the technicalities and biology of soils and fertilizers. Here's a test -- if you know the meaning of the word "adjuvant" and can describe the process you may be able to skip the Master Gardener program, otherwise . . . Lawn care is a good example of the 90 / 10 rule. You can get 90% of the benefit with 10% of the effort - it's the last 10% that takes 90% of the effort, and frankly it's not worth it. You can use that 90% of your free time a lot better in other ways than in obsessing over your lawn. If ;you can afford to spend all of your free time working on the lawn, you can afford to pay someone else to do it for you -- |
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Weed & Feed Products
"Sled" wrote in message
... Hello, I'm a novice but passionate about getting my lawn looking beautiful. Following much research, I think I understand the fundamentals of lawn care and I am now trying to source the best products to treat my lawn through the seasons. I'm currently using Evergreen Complete (first time) but I think this is a public consumer product and definitely not what a professional would use. What do the pro's use to periodically weed and feed their lawns and who vends these ? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Sled -- Sled I don't know where you got the idea that Weed and Feed was good, but it is not. Get a good fertilizer, many areas have local brands, with slow release. Get a spray bottle or pump gallon of Weed B Gone, or other brand (Bayer) of broadleaf weed killer. Use it only where you have a weed. This way you avoid over application of herbicide. Only putting it on the weed you want to kill. Buy the concentrate of the product to refill the pump bottle as needed. You will find that once the weeds are under control, and your property is maintained, that weed control takes very little time and chemical. Do the most with the least chemical. Later, Dale P |
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Weed & Feed Products
On Apr 29, 12:27*am, "Dale P" wrote:
"Sled" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm a novice but passionate about getting my lawn looking beautiful. Following much research, I think I understand the fundamentals of lawn care and I am now trying to source the best products to treat my lawn through the seasons. I'm currently using Evergreen Complete (first time) but I think this is a public consumer product and definitely not what a professional would use. What do the pro's use to periodically weed and feed their lawns and who vends these ? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Sled -- Sled I don't know where you got the idea that Weed and Feed was good, but it is not. *Get a good fertilizer, many areas have local brands, with slow release. *Get a spray bottle or pump gallon of Weed B Gone, or other brand (Bayer) of broadleaf weed killer. *Use it only where you have a weed. *This way you avoid over application of herbicide. *Only putting it on the weed you want to kill. *Buy the concentrate of the product to refill the pump bottle as needed. *You will find that once the weeds are under control, and your property is maintained, that weed control takes very little time and chemical. *Do the most with the least chemical. Later, Dale P- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - +1 The most effective weed control is to have a healthy, thick, lawn that blocks out most of the weeds on it's own. The few that manage to grow, you can easily and most effectivelyh deal with by using a tank sprayer that delivers the herbicide directly and very effectively to the small spots where it's needed. |
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"Steve" wrote in message
... wrote: The most effective weed control is to have a healthy, thick, lawn that blocks out most of the weeds on it's own. The few that manage to grow, you can easily and most effectivelyh deal with by using a tank sprayer that delivers the herbicide directly and very effectively to the small spots where it's needed. On this?! http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/images/dandelions.jpg Or should I use the weed and feed? -- http://NewsReader.Com/ I would think that the Purdue Plant & Pest Diagnostic Laboratory would have some advice, since it is their photo. But if it were mine, I still would not use weed and feed. The feed part wants to feed all plants, including the weeds. Why put down a product that wants to make a weed grow and then combine it with a produce that wants to kill it. If I had inherited that field of dandelions, I would spray with Weed-B-Gone (2,4D) and then fertilize in a week or so. Follow that with any more applications of Weed-B-Gone where needed. Once under control, weeds are a small, manageable problem. Dale P |
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Dale P said:
[...] Why put down a product that wants to make a weed grow and then combine it with a produce that wants to kill it. Because, if it's aggressively growing, it will take up more of the herbicide, quicker. [...] -- Eggs -It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat. |
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Weed & Feed Products
the fella that does the local weekend garden show on radio has always
recommended against weed and feed. "Sled" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm a novice but passionate about getting my lawn looking beautiful. Following much research, I think I understand the fundamentals of lawn care and I am now trying to source the best products to treat my lawn through the seasons. I'm currently using Evergreen Complete (first time) but I think this is a public consumer product and definitely not what a professional would use. What do the pro's use to periodically weed and feed their lawns and who vends these ? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Sled -- Sled |
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