Everything Went Wrong
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- This year was one in which everything I tried to do ended up not working. For the vast majority of the year I wasn't happy with how my front or back yard were working and the fact that my seeding projects on the green also failed. Just a frustrating year which was then capped off with the worst disease issue I've ever had on the practice facility.
However, although it all went wrong, there are lessons to be learned that I will be using to improve my lawn going forward.
Also, we get a little sneak peak of the robot mower we've added to the channel.
$65 fish tank gravel 😅 Thanks for sharing your struggles. Make others struggling not feel alone 😉
Always great content! Keep up the good work. Your videos are always enjoyable.
Well thank you so much.
Sounds like we kinda have had the same journey, testing, of neglecting our lawns haha. My lawn also sprang right back to life once I did some milorganite and turned on the irrigation. Pythium got a few spots, but I think proper watering and N would fend off and make the turf much more resistant to that stuff.
A lot more one liners in this video!! I love it
Yea I hear you on the temps. I’m just across the lake from you. Humid summer has created lots of disease issue.
Ton of rain too. Which was a blessing, but also a curse.
Robot mower! Wow! If it is any good, it would be a big hit.
I love it so far. But, it's early.
I am in an entirely different region (NC) and am also am in year 3 of my putting green (TifGrande). But our issues are very similar. I started the spring with dollar spots, AND I cut it too short too early. It has since recovered after multiple fungicide treatments. Not to mention I made the bone headed mistake of walking across my green with a backpack sprayer full of weed/grass killer and the sprayer trigger got caught in my belt loop and sprayed a 2ft by 4ft spot. It's been a rough hot humid summer, but I am finally back from stupidity and the green is rolling decent.
It's all a learning opportunity. You just have to go the opposite route of me where you're more aggressive with fert in the summer months and keeping water to it.
Hi Jason!
Phil in Chicago here- life got in the way this year, and as a result I’m dealing with black algae…I’m not overly worried, as I’m going to aerate and overseed this fall. Thanks for all your advice in the past!
Yea just a matter of surviving the summer and letting fall and spring do their thing.
Ha I was on the do less this year too. It was great in June until I was gone for 3wks and came home to a surprise of fun.
Yea that's long time to be gone.
My KBG in Fargo got hit by DS and/or Pythium like that this year as well. I doubt it was Pythium since I never saw much mycelium or had grease looking grass, but lots of experts I've spoke with think it was because it killed the crowns. If I see it again, I will send a sample to a university for testing. I was doing curarive rates of Azoxy when it came in for Leaf Spot. Got some Xzemplar after the damage in case it's DS.
I've been going through the same thing! Bluegrass is tough to manage fungus in Missouri summer months. I had it all under control in the wet late Spring/ early Summer with my fungicide apps. Then I got lazy and ignorant in the late summer by not putting anything down.
Now my KBG is infested with dollar spot.
It should bounce back with a shot of N and cooler weather around the corner, but I'll need to be more prepared next season!
Happens to us all. That's a tough climate to grow bluegrass in.
I am really glad I found your channel. Enjoy your content.
I am starting a backyard green and I have a question. Where do you suggest ordering turf care supplies? I am looking for someone who can advise me on the various products. Thanks!
Not really suggestions and I haven't found anything overly helpful. Feel free to message me on any of the social media platforms and I'm happy to help when I can.
Xzemplar is like magic for dollar spot, pricy though. GL with recovery!
Thank you.
I can put fish gravel out?!
😂😂
Same issue man while I’m in grow in. Got hit hard with disease, it’s recovering now after fungicide. Looks like I had dead spot and I also overwatered. 90s hot and humid then we had no sun and thunderstorms for like 2 weeks straight.
I still have a good stand of grass and it’s starting to creep. I’ve been doing light top dressing and am now mowing at 0.5”. But I don’t have a thick mat really yet (I planted 7/3/24). Trying to just make it to fall where maybe I can reseed a bit and get it to creep and thicken up.
Good luck man! Appreciate your effort and your videos and your help! Best regards from Long Island.
Sounds like you'll be good. The progress it makes from September to May is always super impressive to me.
@@JasonSeiberlich yeah that’s what I’ve gleaned from the research I’ve done thus far. Hoping fall season corrects some of my errors and issues with the grow in. Not planning to use it this season, want to really take it slow and get ready for next year.
I got overwhelmed with Fungus (Almost all of them) and bentgrass. High temps and no rain during the recovery near killed it. Still no rain in 10 days and watering it seems to not do anything. Food and watering and waiting and rain not foretasted until maybe next week.
Just survive. All we can do at this point. Fall is close.
Fun times!
Yeah, join the club!! So much for tons of back-breaking work, a few thousand dollars and Jonathan Green Black-Beauty Ultra seeds, because the lawns i gew in all turned to total shit this summer😢
Cool season will always turn to a little shit in the summer. Just gotta survive until fall.
@@JasonSeiberlich yeah dude, this is all way too much of an all consuming pain in the ass, I've got other priorities and commitments that need to take precedence over this shit and the worst part of that is that none of these "MOW AND GO" clowns that are roaming around in their pick-up trucks pulling trailers haven't the slightest clue as to actual lawn care, NONE WHATSOEVER!!!, so you're basically on your own here, you either marry this crap or resign yourself to beds of ugly weeds. When I'm working on my front yard I made a personal game of flagging down every "Landscaper" truck that passes and play the needy homeowner looking for a landscaper, well I'm very knowledgeable so I know exactly how to give them enough rope to uncover the fact thatbthey don't know JACK about actually caring for a lawn, they haven't a clue what to use, when to use it, how to overseed, NOTHING!!!! ITS JUST CUT MOW AND BLOW!! So what the hell do ya do??? Yeah, I'm just about finished here after about 7 overseedings, starting from bare dirt, the best of everything, every piece if equipment and nearly everything I did turned brown and is dead, I think I'll be just going back to my beds of weeds and say SCREW THIS!!!
Struggling with crab grass quite a bit this year. Any advice on how to fight it? Most the options I have found that are bent grass safe get expensive quick. Thanks for any help!
Quinclorac at a half ounce per 1000 probably twice 2 or 3 weeks apart. Max rate for bent with quinclorac is 1 oz, but don't want to push up against that. I learned that lesson the unfortunate way last year.
That’s awesome advice I haven’t found yet! Thank you very much! I’ll give that a shot! Excited to not spend a fortune yet for my 900sqf of bent!
Do you have any issues with squirrels that dig and bury peanuts from neighbors who feed them? I read that shelled peanuts carry a fungus that is not healthy for the squirrels. I wonder if that fungus could enter turf?
Every so often, but not consistently. Had some cranes digging holes a few days ago.
Here in NE Wisconsin the crabgrass is trying to take over and it's winning, sadly. Which grass varity are you using?
All of them. Kbg in front, mix in back, bentgrass on the practice facility. Quinclorac is a solid option for crab. Safe for bent at lower rates.
@@JasonSeiberlich Which variety of bentgrass? I am having great luck with Tee-2-Green and they have someone that can help you if you have any issues.
@Boodieman72 007 and flagstick.
@@Boodieman72I’m on Long Island in NY. I used tee2green A-4 penncross on USGA spec backyard green. I m still learning and new to this but given the summer we’ve had, it seems pretty strong and heat and drought resistant although I don’t think they make it anymore. Disease got me, which seems like we’re all dealing with. Just trying to make to fall! All the best man!