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| So, the National Weather Service is issuing a Freeze Warning for my area early tomorrow morning:
"*IMPACTS... TEMPERATURES BELOW FREEZING COULD KILL CROPS AND SENSITIVE VEGETATION." I still have yet to seed the back yard, and was goin gto do it this weekend. But the chance of escaping this sort of freeze for the next 8 weeks appears unlikely. What to do? I have topsoil to spread. I can spread it, but if I wait until next Fall, it's all going to fill in with weeds! |
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| Go ahead and do it this weekend. A few sporadic freezes for an hour or two isn't going to be a big problem. As long as soil surface temps stay at 50 degrees or higher, you should be OK. |
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| The first frost we had here the other night probably began at 3 AM, so that frost only lasted briefly, thankfully. We're hoping to still collect another 20 or 30 eggplants. Gosh, our 8 plants must have produced between 100 and 150 egg plants this year--all organic. We used just compost and Bradfield Organics "Lush Lawn and Garden" fertilizer (a mix of alfalfa pellets with ground chicken and/or pork meat). We fertilized just once a month, and I bet if we had fertilized on September 1 and October 1, we would have had even more egg plants! August 1 was our last fertilizing. |
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| ....I even spread some of that alfalfa/chicken/pork on my zoysia in early spring. It gave the lawn an other-worldly green hue that I've never seen before. I liked it a lot. Really unique. The color was much different than the green hue the grass got from Corn Gluten Meal that I applied later in the season. I think next year, I'm going to spread the Alfalfa/chicken/pork AND Corn Gluten Meal at the same time and see what green color I get. |
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- Posted by Ibanez540r 6 - OH (My Page) on Fri, Oct 12, 12 at 13:42
| LawnHobby - What kind of seed are you going to use? Regardless I think your too late for pretty much everything. Ground temps might stay warm enough for germination, but the sprouts are going to be so young before going dormant, I bet you'll have a very thin lawn that will have a lot of dying out over winter. I planted TTTF on Sept 15th and am still fairly thin and young. |
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| Start producing more CO2. Fast. |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 12, 12 at 17:06
| TTTF and KBG. |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 12, 12 at 17:09
| The way I see it, I have three options: 1. Spread soil and plant seed now. 2. Spread soil and hold off planting seed. 3. Don't spread soil; leave it in piles (12 yards total). If I pick option 2 or 3, I'd have to decide if I want to wait until next fall, or risk trying spring seeding. Need more specific adivce, please. (South-Central CT) |
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| Put down the seed now. I live in Maryland and I've put down tttf as late as November and had it germinate and look good in the spring. There are no guarantees, but waiting until next fall seems like a nightmare for next year. Something will grow where you want grass and it won't be anything you want. The worst thing that happens is you put down seed and it doesn't work. Oh well, you're out $100 of grass seed. |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 19:17
| I won't have time to do it all now, let alone watering, and I believe it's too risky with the weather, considering this is KBG and TTTF, and KBG takes near forever to grow. Plus, I'd rather focus on watering the front lawn this spring and summer, considering it's going to be in its first year and needs mroe water until established. So, I'll probably be sreading all or most of the soil between now and the onset of winter, when time permits, and I'll just keep after everything with Roundup next spring and summer, and hopefully I will be in a position to seed the back next year, late summer/early fall. If I'm going to do it, might as well do it right. This also reduces the amount of grass to mow next spring, a good thing. I'm going to get some lime and anything else I need to use to correct the soil, and take care of that this Fall. Then Roundup the weeds next August and plant grass! |
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| I know it must be hard to decide whether to seed now at this point, or wait until next year. A little food for thought: A couple which lives at the corner paid a lawn care company just yesterday to core aerate and slit seed Turf Type Tall Fescue in part of their lawn yesterday. I guess the area that was aerated and slit-seeded is roughly 1,000 square feet--not the whole yard. I hope it works out for them. We had our first frost to speak of 10 days ago, but none since. |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 19, 12 at 16:16
| Even you guys are starting to get the cold weather...how about that. We're a little further north than you! |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 19, 12 at 16:17
| I'll tell you what though...these two frosts have nicely killed lots of the weeds in the newly overseeded (Aug/Sept) front lawn. |
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