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| I recently helped a friend with putting in a sprinkler system and marathon 2 sod to both his front and back yard. The lawn looked great for the first two-three weeks, but soon started to yellow and die in spots. In other spots large amounts of mushrooms began to appear. I don't think the lawn has been fed during the entire month of its existence. I'm just trying to get ideas of what could be causing these problems. Too much water? Not enough in some parts and too much in others? Should we feed the lawn? Any help as always would be really cool. Thanks, Andy |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 12 at 1:19
| Where do you live? Please be pretty specific. There are some places where fescue will grow and some places where it is an uphill battle until it all dies out. How are you watering? How long and how often? How high/low are you mowing? Before you feed it you need to know that it was overfed at the sod farm just before it was cut and shipped. Don't feed it until Labor Day. |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Mon, Jun 11, 12 at 0:27
| Just to bring y'all up to date. Elbeardo wrote to me offline and answered the questions. The lawn in question, which is not his, is in San Pedro, California. San Pedro is a highly unusual location sitting at the bottom south side of a reasonably steep hill. The sun goes down over the hill in the mid afternoon. San Pedro is a harbor community at the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles at Long Beach. Thus they are highly influenced by the Pacific ocean temperatures, "late night and early morning low fog and clouds burning off at 11," and onshore wind every day at 2pm. The lawn in question has been watered every other day for 10 minutes and has been mowed down to 1.5 inches. Because of the unique location and minimal sunlight, fescue like Marathon II should be one of the very few grasses that would thrive. The soil on this lot is sandy which is unlike much of San Pedro. I suggested to him that he back way off on the watering and increase the time to water. I also suggested raising the mowing height all the way but I just read that Marathon II is a dwarf variety of Marathon. With that in mind the grass should be mowed about 2.5 inches - two notches higher than the current height. |
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