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How green is your lawn at the moment? All the lawns in my neighborhood are still dormant and crispy to the touch from lack of rain / irrigation.
I just started watering after overseeding and fertilizing and most of my lawn is back to a lush dark green except for the side area and part of the backyard. Starting to be concerned that those areas are dead :/
How green is your lawn at the moment? All the lawns in my neighborhood are still dormant and crispy to the touch from lack of rain / irrigation.
I just started watering after overseeding and fertilizing and most of my lawn is back to a lush dark green except for the side area and part of the backyard. Starting to be concerned that those areas are dead :/
I saw a couple posts mentioning Jonathan Green fall product. This is the 1st year I did a cycle with J.G. Products, the local in town nursery went from being contractor/wholesale only to open to the public in the not so distant past. They carried this brand and I decided to give it a shot.
My previous home started with a crummy weedy lawn when we moved in and over the 10 years I lived there I basically hand started a new lawn after removing most weeds manually. After a few years I had an irrigation system put in, and stayed on top of over-seeding (by hand), lawn care and fertilizing mostly using the scotts 1-4 step bags. I did slice seed in some more grass after the irrigation was put in and spread a few yards or loam to some low spots. It looked pretty decent when we left.
Move to new house 3-ish years ago and inherited a "meh" lawn, some spots decent, others not, we moved in the fall and I didn't touch it until the spring. HELLO dandelions! so many....I was that lawn on the block. I plucked hundreds by hand before the tru-green guy showed up and offered their lawn care package, i was reluctant as I had decent results on my own in the past but decided to give it a shot, as it wasn't going to cost much difference for them to apply all year vs my 1-4 steps of scotts. Wasn't satisfied and booted them after a couple months and resumed my duties.
As I said this year was first time using the Jon Green steps 1-4, and had great results in the spring-early summer, I personally thought the results were better than when using scotts or vigro products. I don't have irrigation, and it did turn a bit crispy over the summer. I core aerated and overseeded a few weeks ago, but it was a last minute decision and was stuck buying scotts seed with their dumb coating. I put down a smaller bag of kentuky blue seed along with a large bag of the northeast mix seed. The nursery carries Jonathan Green Seed, anyone try it out. I may get some next fall to overseed more depending on how my lawn fills out. Right now the bare patches mostly look like plugs from the aerating, hopefully it thickens up more. I mowed for the first time this past weekend, and we have been getting a couple heavy rain events each of the last 2 weeks here in s. new england.
I saw a couple posts mentioning Jonathan Green fall product. This is the 1st year I did a cycle with J.G. Products, the local in town nursery went from being contractor/wholesale only to open to the public in the not so distant past. They carried this brand and I decided to give it a shot.
My previous home started with a crummy weedy lawn when we moved in and over the 10 years I lived there I basically hand started a new lawn after removing most weeds manually. After a few years I had an irrigation system put in, and stayed on top of over-seeding (by hand), lawn care and fertilizing mostly using the scotts 1-4 step bags. I did slice seed in some more grass after the irrigation was put in and spread a few yards or loam to some low spots. It looked pretty decent when we left.
Move to new house 3-ish years ago and inherited a "meh" lawn, some spots decent, others not, we moved in the fall and I didn't touch it until the spring. HELLO dandelions! so many....I was that lawn on the block. I plucked hundreds by hand before the tru-green guy showed up and offered their lawn care package, i was reluctant as I had decent results on my own in the past but decided to give it a shot, as it wasn't going to cost much difference for them to apply all year vs my 1-4 steps of scotts. Wasn't satisfied and booted them after a couple months and resumed my duties.
As I said this year was first time using the Jon Green steps 1-4, and had great results in the spring-early summer, I personally thought the results were better than when using scotts or vigro products. I don't have irrigation, and it did turn a bit crispy over the summer. I core aerated and overseeded a few weeks ago, but it was a last minute decision and was stuck buying scotts seed with their dumb coating. I put down a smaller bag of kentuky blue seed along with a large bag of the northeast mix seed. The nursery carries Jonathan Green Seed, anyone try it out. I may get some next fall to overseed more depending on how my lawn fills out. Right now the bare patches mostly look like plugs from the aerating, hopefully it thickens up more. I mowed for the first time this past weekend, and we have been getting a couple heavy rain events each of the last 2 weeks here in s. new england.
I put it down last week after I mowed, I think its too early to tell. Grass has greened up a bunch but not sure if its from the monsoon of rain we have gotten over the past couple weeks or if its residual from the starter I put down when I over-seeded.
I never usually saw all that much difference when putting down the scotts winterguard or whatever they call it. I think its just a combination of having usually dry summers which leave lawns a bit crispy, and then in the fall when the rains usually return its time that the winterizer goes down, so grass always looks decent in the fall, at least in established parts.
I see my over-seeding poking through nice and green even in patches of crabgrass or weedy areas. I know it'll take at least 1 more over-seeding and work on some thin areas before I get something to be somewhat proud of. I was happy with the J.G. cycle of fertilizer so I plan on using it again next year.
Record rainfall makes for a lush green late summer/early fall lawn.
Aerating definitely makes a difference.
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Originally Posted by qtbrye
How green is your lawn at the moment? All the lawns in my neighborhood are still dormant and crispy to the touch from lack of rain / irrigation.
I just started watering after overseeding and fertilizing and most of my lawn is back to a lush dark green except for the side area and part of the backyard. Starting to be concerned that those areas are dead :/
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