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what is this viney / rooty stuff in my zoysia grass? it's hard to pull up thru the zoysia roots; what will kill it since i'm too lazy to crawl around and yank it up, only to leave a root and grow back later

Derek should we be putting our fungus preventative every month now or is it a bit early? I have treated once early so far but that is all looking good but want to stay ahead of problems.

You don't necessarily need to go out monthly with how healthy your lawn is. I would get an app down now and you'll probably be good for a while. Depending if you have received any of the recent rains you probably have a lot of morning dew. Morning dew, the heat and humidity coming, equals very high disease pressure.

https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/pestoutlooks.aspx

We`ve had some very heavy dews the past week or so (lots of a.m. fog) and I went ahead and put down some Propiconazole 2 days ago with some Bifen XTS. Hoping the Propiconazole will slow down my Tifway419 since I`m headed for Cloudcroft NM next week (LOL). No signs of any fungus, but my grass has really taken off since my last AS application (.6lb N / 1000). I can really tell the difference between .5 lb.N per K and .6 lb. N per K (20% more N)

Hey Derek, Didn`t you say a while back that you were going to try putting down a monthly app of ES this year. If so, how's that coming? I`m going to put my 2nd app down after I get back into town from NM. It will be my 5th app since I started last year. I really feel like the addition of the ES and AS has improved the overall appearance and health of my lawn since I stared last year. Appreciate the help

I’m doing the ES every 6 weeks this year. Seems to be doing well. With this heat and rain it’s breaking down good. I’ll get a soil test next spring and see where my Ph is. 2021 I was 7.8 and 2022 7.4. I didn’t test this year.

Just spent 2 hours pulling tiny hackberry trees out of my front yard. I got about 30 more hours to go doing it this way. I told my neighbor I would pay to have that dam*** tree cut down and hauled off but "they like the shade"

Any way to kill those hackberry sprouts?

I had one of the best St Augustine lawns in my neighborhood last year. This year looks horrible and I am embarrassed.

Here are some before Pics. Started a regimen that Derek suggested. Hopefully some improvement pics to come!!






JR

That's going to turn out great. Good looking runners.

Love/hate with this yard
3 years of working on it and it’s finally coming together. Chitty soil and no shade but this year finally getting the Dallas grass under control and it’s filling in where I lost all the st Augustine

Now I just need it to get denser

That actually looks really good and it's denser than you think. You're getting scalp marks from the crown coming up. It's a given. Specially in lawns mowed once a week or so, you always have to raise your bed height to stay ahead of it as the season goes on. Personally I would do a height of cut reset. I would bottom the mower out and "scalp" it and get it as low as you can. Bag all those clippings. It will recover in 2 weeks. We are in optimal growth. Then mow often. At least twice a week if you can. Don't bag those clippings. Hammer it with cheap Lowes T13 fert every 4 weeks 4lbs per 1000 through Oct 1st. Water in every application and water in-between in this heat is key too. That looks to be about 1500 sqft? and mowing it is 15 minute job if that. Telling Bermuda that it can't grow up will trigger lateral growth. So mowing often is your friend.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sta-Green/...agv_EAQYASABEgJcsvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

It’s about a 10 minute job
Right now I have the height set to about 3” and I’ve been mowing at least once a week. The flipping clippings. Pile up on the gravel drive way and my blower took a chit So I’ve just been living with it till I get another
I’ll grab some of the fertilizer for sure. But to be honest I’m really don’t want to scalp anything again. Every time I do it gets taken over by weeds….

I`ve been mowing mine at 1.5 inches with a rotary every 3 and sometimes 4 days. After being gone for 7 days last week, I raised the front to 2" and left the back at 1.5" Monday morning. It looked really good and green at that height but had lots of seed heads after 2 days, so I set both @ 1.5 " and mowed again today. Had a few spots that cut down to brown, but not too bad. It`ll be back to 100% green in less than a week. Derek is 100% correct about mowing at least twice a week and I think 2" would give you a better appearance than 3 inches. If you mowed twice a week @ 3" with a sharp blade you shouldn`t have all those clippings either. You might try bagging the clippings till you get a blower back. I bag mine about once every 3rd week just because I think it has a much better cut when the mower isn't having to mulch and it cleans up any grass clippings that hasn`t broken down.

Killer the good thing about catering to the bermuda is your weed killing options are just about endless.

Pack are you getting seed heads in your 419? I have what I think is 419, it's for sure some type of hybrid and I get no seed heads. I have some common patches mixed in and they seed head bad.