Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
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Wow, the Bomgars 4 step 15,000 sq foot is $99. I may try that this year. I used the menards version last year and it worked just as well as Scotts for 1/2 the price.
I put it down on Wednesday- 4” soil temps seem to be trending in the right direction for it
I just put mine down, but I live in Overland Park and we are getting some rain tonight.
i got the menards granual kind.. noticed it has 26-0-3 lawn food too... is it too early for that?
or what kind do you guys recommend?
or what kind do you guys recommend?
Some of my grass is green but there appear to be some spots that are matted down and brown. I kind of roughed up the grass with my foot and it looks like there isn't much green coming underneath. It is worse in my front yard. Would this be just a different variety of grass that is slower to come out of dormancy? It was completely healthy last year and looks rough so far this spring.
Took some pictures of my front yard. Would it be grub damage? I treated for grubs last year so not sure why it would be that
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I don’t think that’s grubs. It could be a fungus.
I would heavily over-seed and then give it a vigorous raking.
That grass is all dead. Brown = dormant, white = dead. It looks too widespread to be grubs, but I wouldn't rule it out even if you treated. My neighborhood has some of the worst grub damage I've ever seen after last summer. The only ones that don't have problems this spring are the ones that watered all fall because they were able to push through the root system damage. Does it feel spongy? Grab ahold and pull in a few different spots, if it's grub damage you'll be able to peel it up in chunks.
Maybe. @spierceisu does it have a fuzzy look to it like this up close? It’s hard to tell from the pictures.
It’s a mold or fungus of some sort. When grubs get into a lawn they typically leave a crescent shaped dead spot. Probably wouldn’t hurt to dethatch it, overseed and put fungicide on the rest of the lawn
No fuzzy stuff. Just brown. Looks super dead like no green underneath. Thought it might pep up with warmer weather but no such luck so far
50 or 55 degrees soil temp the goal for new seed? Been waiting for the moment to fill in a few bare spots from the new driveway.
The thing that leads me to believe it's not a fungus is that it stops almost to the line where his neighbors yard is. Fungicide is not a typical application in home lawns so I would think it would extend more into his neighbor's yard if it were disease.
