Lawn Maintenance

Bill, a lot of seeders you can rent come with a thatcher in the front and disc's on the back to work the seed into the soil. This way u can thatch and seed in one shot.
 
This is what I get for not being positive in this thread, grubs. This patch showed up only 2 weeks ago and took all of 15 min to completly remove the sod. You would have thought I used a sod cutter.

 
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Just this thread? 😉

That sucks. Grubs are my other problem too. When do these things die off for the winter? Do they even die off?

Should I put down some insecticide now or wait until spring?

Storage space is limited and that hers and aerators take up too much room for the amount of use I get out of them right now. Once we get a shed to store yard stuff it may be a different story.


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gtluke said:
Sod, get out of this thread Kevin.
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Never planted sod here, grass came up like sod dude to the grubs.

Glenlivet12 said:
Just this thread? 😉

That sucks. Grubs are my other problem too. When do these things die off for the winter? Do they even die off?

Should I put down some insecticide now or wait until spring?

Storage space is limited and that hers and aerators take up too much room for the amount of use I get out of them right now. Once we get a shed to store yard stuff it may be a different story.


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I looked into the grub thing before but enver had them this bad. I think you have to treat in the fall to kill existing grubs and any eggs they lay because just treating in the spring doesn't kill everything. I am not sure though but I need something.
 
Grubs can be devastating, once your lawn looks like Kevin's there is nothing you can do to kill the insect until the following summer. The white grub is too big and healthy to be affected by a insecticide at this point. You can however re-seed this area with an endophyte enhanced seed which is grub resistant.

The time to treat for grubs is August to mid August. This is when the insect is most vulnerable to an insecticide. At this point the larvae are closest to the soil surface and small enough to be killed with an insecticide.

If you want to apply an insectice to kill grubs then read this. It's important to know what you are doing before applying an insecticide to your lawn.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...CThQsBM8oF9P8gyt5GJEosg&bvm=bv.53537100,d.dmg
 
I had a small area of my lawn invaded by grubs. I ripped out the dead stuff and planted new seed which is resistant to the little critters. I don't want to have to apply an insecticide to my lawn every year to keep grubs out. Anything that gets destroyed by grubs I replace with better grass varieties.
 
Guess I need to look into grubs some more. I was bagging my lawn last weekend and whole patches of grass were getting sucked into the chute. I thought that area died due to the lack of rain in the last 1.5 months, hopefully its not grubs!

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Send the grubs this way. I will make a mean spicy soup and bring it to the next picnic.
 
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Guess I need to look into grubs some more. I was bagging my lawn last weekend and whole patches of grass were getting sucked into the chute. I thought that area died due to the lack of rain in the last 1.5 months, hopefully its not grubs!

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Yeah, that's grubs, dead grass usually won't pull up like that
 
nice. I would treat for weeds next year and overseed again next fall. the goal is to have a healthy thick lawn which does not allow weeds to creep in.
 
Yeah. I picked up some pre emergent stuff to put down in the spring. A few weeks after that I plan on another dose of lime and fertilizer and might try and seed some thin patches and overseed the whole thing in the fall.

I'm really pleased with the results following the Rutgers lab suggestions. Looking forward to seeing how the garden does next year.
 
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nice. I would treat for weeds next year and overseed again next fall. the goal is to have a healthy thick lawn which does not allow weeds to creep in.
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speaking of this...

i just found out that the stupid little broad leaf plant that occupies at least 70% of my back yard is actually some kind of wild strawberry. i hear that it is very difficult to kill off. i have experienced this difficulty first hand.

i doused a section with a weed killer a month or so ago. the weed killer was an ortho broad leaf weed killer that also takes out crabgrass. it killed off the crab grass completely, but this little plant is still kicking everywhere - like nothing happened to it.

any ideas?
 
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