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  1. On 8/19/2019 at 4:56 PM, Moby Ric said:

    No fungus, it's just scorched.  I put down a feed that the ag store guy said will help rebuild the soil and get the yard through the dry spell, that seems to be working .  Yard is coming back.

    Oddly enough I did an early AM liquid fert treatment Saturday and put down a bag of Milo Sunday before watering it all in and the lawn has exploded.  Its amazing to think that all the nitro I put down between late April - June wasn't enough to keep it going through the summer.  Still adjusting to Bermuda and how nitrogen hungry it is.

  2. 21 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Except for the area I had to treat for chinch bugs, the lawn is looking green, but we had some timely rain last week wherein the predicted "scattered showers' managed to park themselves over my street and give us enough water to take the edge off. Which is good because like the saying from that popular series, I have paraphrased the mantra into my head:

    "Water bill is coming..."

     

    On a different note, I have a section of yard, that while green could use a little topdressing with a soil/compost mix. Should I wait until spring or can I do that at anytime?

    Usually organics can go down whenever.  Not going to harm anything so long as you don't choke the area out with the topdressing.

  3. On 8/13/2019 at 12:48 PM, Moby Ric said:

    Sprinklers all set up now.  Is there something I can put down on the lawn, besides water, that will help it get back to normal?

    Organic fert would help push growth.  Wetting agent can help retain water in areas with localized dry spot.   Its possible it's neither of those things are you have some insects / fungus.   Have any pics?

     

     

    Also - fwiw - my yard was beast mode until I got back from a fishing trip in late June.  Came home to a disaster I haven't been able to identify or fix, but I think it's really just progressive drought stress.  There's no way I can justify the amount of water needed to keep the lawn tip top.

  4. 21 hours ago, swraith said:

    Just back from a 9 day family vacation.

    I read about the cooler temps last week in Austin while away but the lawn looks roasted. Granted I don’t have an irrigation system but damn the yard is dry as fuck. Huge cracks in the clay soil. Lots of shriveled browning In the lawn.

    Started hand watering a bit this evening. Water just instantly disappears on the ground. Going to take a shit load of water to make a dent.

    Mine is fucked.  Been giving each zone 15-20 min every morning and its still dry when I get home 8 hours later.

  5. I completed mine two summers ago. 

    1. Drove out west to fish sections of the Rio Grande
    2. Then to New Mexico to fly fish for a few days around Taos.
    3. Up to Colorado to fish the Arkansas and catch some lake trout in a few state parks
    4. Over to Utah to fish a high desert lake (Steinaker) and the Green River.
    5. Over to Grand Teton to fish Jackson Lake
    6. over to Yellowstone to fly fish for 3 days
    7. Drove the Beartooth Hwy out of Yellowstone to Montana.  Fly fished there for 3 days.
    8. Down to South Dakota in the Black Hills.  Fished streams and creeks around there. 

    Lots of species were caught and all techniques were implored.    Kind of wished I got some time in the salt but I'm planning another one going up the Texas coast line over to Florida in the next few years.  

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  6. 18 hours ago, Mac8111 said:

    Tell me about fishing the Land Cut. Probably getting a cabin in Sept. Is there a lot of wade fishing or mainly boat fishing the channel?

    See my post above.

     

    - Anchor up at the mouth of El Toro or wade fish it and fish that in the morning.  Drift fish 9 Mile Hole and Rocky Slough in the mid to late afternoon.  Fish the lights at your dock if you want to catch a fish every cast. (assuming you're not there on a weekend when you have 10 people with their lights on)

    - Down South Lures "Bone Diamond" in the afternoon  "Red Shad" in the morning if you're throwing soft plastics (under a 1/8 jighead)  Gulp under a cork worked okay when the bite was slow but make sure you get the full size ones (not the smaller 3")

    - If you're going to buy bait beforehand, pin perch and croaker did not produce very well.  Live shrimp tore em up though.  We also kept a few skippies to make cut bait with but the reds were nowhere to be found in any of the places we were.  I dont think they are really back there as much in the mid to late summer (more fall / winter timeframe)

    - There are a lot of spots to wade off the main channel but they get crowded on weekends and we found that moving around and going where we knew the fish were and the pressure was lower was better than getting the occasional bite being asshole to elbow with everyone else at the hotspots.

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  7. He'll get a 2 year exemption and invites to the 2020 Masters, PGA and Players Championship.  Also - 1.152 mil in his 3rd professional start.  The Open Championship qualification looks at Major finishes, Euro and Fedex Cup money standings, WGR etc.

  8. I thought I'd be smart and play Clay in the past month or so since Kizer's greens went to shit.  Now Clay's greens are in the same state.  Not sure what the fuck they're doing out there, but I've played 3-4 different courses in the past month that all had fantastic looking putting surfaces.  Looks like take-all root rot or something and that's unfortunate because I don't think any combination of fungicides will fix it.

    If you pair their greens on both courses with the divot minefield they call a driving range - there's literally no reason to even go to Clay/Kizer anymore.  That range gets completely obliterated within a few hours of them moving the ropes.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Were you in a cabin?  I stay at a cabin on the ICW near the landcut that a buddy owns.  Awesome up there.

    A friend of mine's cousin has a share of a cabin.  Probably a 40 min boat ride south from Bird Island Basin launch.   Really bad ass experience.  

    The amount of fish you can catch in a day down there is just crazy.  We anchored down around the mouth at El Toro Friday morning and proceeded to catch about 50  fish in an hour.  Not all keepers of course, but still.  That trip was a fucking workout.

  10. Spent the last 4 days down at the land cut.  We were on the boat by 2:30pm Thursday and didn't really stop fishing until Saturday night.  Almost made a Sunday morning trip to make up for the slow Saturday.  Hundreds of fish caught each day but keepers were minimal.   Down South Lures Bone Diamond (afternoon and under the lights) and Red Shad (morning) were the winners.  Didn't catch many fish on croaker or perch.

  11. Good rains down in Hays county and recent organic fert + micronutrients and iron has the bermuda looking badass.  I'm doing all liquid applications throughout summer from now on.  I'm currently using a mix of liquid humic acid, soluble potash, sea kelp, organic nitrogen, and chelated iron.  1" height of cut.

     

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  12. 4 minutes ago, kmac30 said:

    Just had a tree taken out in my front yard (almost dead oak - just moved in, not sure what it died from). Ground down the stump and instead of taking those chunks, they left them. In the past, I’ve had tree guys take all that, then I’ve backfilled with dirt and then sod over top. Can I just lay sod over that?

    I thought I read somewhere it’s best to get it out.

    From my experience with pieces of live/scrub oaks being left in my yard before it was graded with topsoil and sodded - those spots will problem areas for short roots and localized dry spots for years to come.  I've had to actually surgically remove pieces of oak that were cut down to the stump and left there because those spots would dry up within days of not getting watered.

     

  13. Fast forward to two weeks of curative application of propiconazole / azoxystrobin for red thread/rust/brown patch and what looked like gray leaf spot in the back yard.  I treated two weeks ago and then again this past weekend.  Also - dethatched the bad areas not realizing just how bad the thatch was contributing to the fungal issues.

    This is a few days ago at dusk.  Had to increase the lighting of the image a bit because it was almost dark out.  Approx 1" height of cut Tifway 419
     

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  14. On 6/11/2019 at 10:19 AM, kevwun said:

    Anybody used MSM in their yard?  I have heard it's a good way to kill bahia, but won't hurt St Augustine or Bermuda.  I have read you need to mix it with a surfactant to make it stick better.  I never knew that was a thing.

    Not trying to tell you what's right or wrong - but MSM isn't approved for residential turf.  (something about organic arsenic becoming inorganic arsenic)  It is a straight up fucking killer of dallisgrass / crab etc.  I believe it's not even approved for golf courses anymore.  Only roadsides and select places where runoff is controlled.   Also - when apply any herbicide - surfactant will help it adhere/strip away the waxy exterior of the weed you're trying to kill.  I always use it in any herbicide app whether spot treating or blanket apps.

  15. On 6/6/2019 at 2:07 PM, chikin23 said:

    Damn reel mower is all messed up. Sharpened the blades but can't get it to cut smoothly.

    There should be a way you can set the bed knife/blade contact and then do a paper cut test while turning the reel with your hand.  I think the bedknife to reel contact is actually more important than the blades being sharp.  If it's a cheaper model of reel mower (California Trimmer, Tru Cut, etc)  they all use lower quality steel that is softer than you'd find on a higher end greens mower.  Okay for residential use but kind of a pain in the ass to adjust/maintain.

  16. On 6/1/2019 at 8:47 PM, Spaulding Smails said:

    While I always appreciate and commonly reference the "how do I deal with this issue or that issue" posts, let's share some bad ass lawns and landscapes.  With all the rain this year, we gotta have some lawn pron.  I'll start.

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    Rain and these moderate temp / high humidity situations are wreaking havoc on my 18 mo bermuda lawn.  I've had rust/red thread and leaf spot now in the backyard.  Been running through the rotation of fungicide apps for the past month and still have traces around front and lots in back.  Luckily - fungicide is cheaper than watering this motherfucker so there's that.  Post fungi spray and edging this past weekend - height of cut at 1.5"  You can see the darker areas where the fungi started spreading and I had to put the smack down.

     

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