D is for December

Finally, the vast majority of the leaves are up. None too soon I might add because it's time to move on toward warmer weather. The last of the fall yard work was completed yesterday with

the application of the December fertilizer.

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No other lawn work is planned until we return home in the spring when I'll apply some spring green up fertilizer and a pre-emergent for the weeds.

O is for October

2009 has produced another bumper crop of acorns. I've gotten up the worst of them, mowed and put down the October fall fertilizer using speedygreen 2000 set on 4+. Last months seed and aereation has produced lots of new grass and the yard is looking good.

First Fall Activity

Fall is here. Fall lawn care started with aeration. I now know why I once said that I'll never aerate again. These machines are killers and unles some extraordinary results are the outcome, never again. Following aeration, I applied starter fertilizer and seed. This year I applied seed at a rate that's about double that which I've used for over seeding in the past.

Seed was applied with a speedygreen 2000 setting on 4 1/2. Fertilizer seeting was 8. We'll post some results later.

Summer Update

As usual, late summer is a time when the weeds flourish. My lawn is no exception. Things could be better with more attention but health matters have gotten in the way. Maybe next year.

The July feeding was July 29, 2009

Next: Areate and plant seed in early September

Early Summer

Today I spread Scotts summerguard turf builder fertilizer. The lawn is holding up pretty well but summer is here and the heat is taking it's toll. Most of the problems are weeds. I'll work on this next week with weed be gone.

I bought this Scotts product last year at Sams on a clearance deal for about $15. The price for this bag this year is about $55. This is worth remembering.

Better late than never.

I finally got around to putting down some pre emergant weed control. This probably should have been done at least two or three weeks ago. Ideally, when soil temperaturs get to about 50 degrees. The idea is that this is about the temperature when weed seeds start to germinate. I read somewhere that many weed seeds can last as long as 100 years befor germinating. They just lay around waiting for the ideal set of circumstance. This time I used a Lesco product pictured here.

Weeds

Applied about 4 gallons of weed B gone mostly in the front front yard along the ditch. Picture below shows clover etc prior to treatment. More later after it's had a chance to work

Spring Lawn care

It always amazes me how much lawn debris accumulates over the winter. We left on our winter trip to warmer places on January 2 and the lawn was in good shape. Returned home March 20 to find a grown up yard full of twigs and small branches. In total, it all filled up one of those huge cans on wheels. Any way, I got it done. Then, I fertilized with a 20-3-4 fertilizer

on 04-14-09 using two 5k sq ft bags. Here we are a couple of weeks later and the lawn is almost lush. I need to work a bit on weed killing and prevention but all in all things look pretty good.

The Dogwoods are beautiful this year.