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cactusflinthead

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  1. I'm in the Craig Way timewarp. Fubo sucks. The mouse eared kingdom sucks. Spectrum sucks too. I am so ready to cut a cord or write a sternly worded email
  2. You're right about the food. I'd try a grub treatment. If there's no food they will stop digging for it. A .22 also works
  3. Another thing that I remembered. The last few years I have been adding rooting hormones to my tank mix for flower installs. I expanded that to remedial mixes for diseases, of any root rot types or any newly planted stuff that is showing stress. It's been a good addition. We've been selling it for years to retail shoppers. It's not unusual to see a nursery either try to get a quart of it on your cart or flat out give it to you in hopes you actually use it. It's been a part of the install process for years, but nobody seemed to be recommending it in remedial apps. I was talking shop with a vendor and he suggested it. I buy it by the case now. https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lawn-and-garden/gardening/plant-food/7296254 Old school root stimulator Yes, the jokes practically write themselves.
  4. For the ones converting turf to beds, strong survivors in mine have had a couple of surprise contenders, notably thyme. I didn't think it was going to survive much less actively spread, but it's doing great. The rosemary is doing well too, but it gets the funk when we get a wet period. It's kinda raggedy now after snowmaggeddon but it's still got enough green for me to keep it. The gray leaf dianthus has actually spread and reseeded. It also prefers hot and dry. It's right on the curb so it's not getting any relief at all. https://www.greatgardenplants.com/products/firewitch-dianthus
  5. If you know you have issues with disease think prevention. Hit it going into dormancy and coming out of it. The damage gets done when we are getting rain. But, we see it when it's stressed from the heat. The yellowing and thinning out are because it's got a shitty root system. It's not getting nutrition so it turns yellow. I saw a KState paper from 1943 that called the same thing we call TARR, "the yellows" on Buffalo grass and yes it is susceptible to it as well. They noted that more fertilizer and water did not help. It was nearly 50 more years before a prof at Auburn figured out the causal agent. The same genus that causes sudden death of pansies, periwinkles, and about 2500 other species was the causal agent for the Potato Famine. It's really a poorly understood part of our world. We're working on it, but there's no funding like what we have for diseases in other places. But, I don't think anyone expects that level of investment. A few more dollars sure would help though.
  6. Ok. I think I have enough brain function to get going. St. A is like bobwhite quail? Yeah, I'll agree with that. Last winter was not great for a lot of turf. It warmed up enough to make it break dormancy and then WHAM freeze. The initial green up is using last year's stored carbos. If it uses all on the first green up and then gets hammered by cold it will suffer. Sometimes it fucks off and dies. I saw a lot of that this spring. Bermudagrass too. Big ass swathes deader than hell. For no goddamn apparent reason. Was it sick going into fall? Did it wake up early and get a frozen brick to the head? Dunno, but we have planted a bunch of zoysia this season. If it's super duper shady even zoysia will get kinda thin. I have to go to fescue under big live oaks. It's about the same water requirement as the rest if it's in the shade. It is going to require multiple reseeding to get a good stand. On watering. I water the turf maybe once a week. I've got bermudagrass at the house. Soak the shit out of it for a day or so and then let it run until I can see it is dry again. StA shows dryness very obviously. It loses its gloss. But, before that stage it starts to lose turgor pressure. If you can step on it and it doesn't spring back up readily then it's time. Again water heavily and make it use it. Top dressing with organic matter helps with the water holding capacity as well as giving the fert bonding sites. That's not as crucial in a heavy clay, but it's damn sure important in the sandy ones. Top dressing in clay helps with the compaction and in some cases can act as a disease suppressor. (Peat moss for TARR). If there's a foolproof recipe for diseases in turf I'd love to see it. It's start flinging bullets and hope one or more hits. The aggy flyer on TARR(take all root rot) has a list of half a dozen options. Because they don't know what works best either. I went to a turf day last year at the Ag extension farm/office at Coit and Campbell in Richardson. Heard a prof say TARR isn't really a big deal. Oh really. Well, maybe stop trying to get it to replicate results in a lab and go out in the field and take a fucking look around. It's been a fucking brutal summer. We're slow rolling the fall apps. If it's stressed out or the irrigation is questionable it's going to get to wait until that infernal fat ass high pressure goes away. If it's holding up it's going to get the regular treatment. I would wait until I can't stand it anymore on StA. Just hit it with some post stuff and do it gently. Lower rates, do it at dusk so it's going to be dry and absorbed by the next day. Give stuff a good feed if it starts acting like a normal fall. I don't care what you use. Get some carbos stored up for next year. Maybe fling a little more peat moss or compost. Good luck. Oh yeah. King Ranch is a good supplier. They are in the bigger metro areas. And some smaller ones. https://krturfgrass.com/
  7. He is a profoundly decent man: a man of faith, a man of compassion; a man who is willing to listen to different viewpoints, capable of evolving, and able to admit his mistakes. He is a man who loves deeply, mourns greatly, and gives fully. He is a man with actual meaningful, healthy relationships with other human beings. He is a humble man who sees others as more important than himself. In other words, he is everything his opponent is not. He is also, not perfect. I’m okay with that. https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/08/20/joe-biden-is-not-the-lesser-of-two-evils/ still applies.
  8. Well that was a good start to the season. Highly entertaining
  9. Detroit Rock City gonna mess around and win in KC
  10. We're going to drop the ball. That's what we're doing
  11. I have been entertained. Welcome back NFL
  12. There's no regular old Used To be Kinda Normal GOP thread. Ya make do with what you got.
  13. It's not exactly alt right. This has been standard fare in the GOP for as long as I can remember.
  14. There's no angry laughing reaction. I have to pick one. I'd sure like to see some polling in the military again.
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