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Entire state of VT socked in with clouds..sounds about right.

23-24 had an interesting distribution here in SVT too. I ended up with 11" more than Mitch, despite him probably averaging 40-50" more per season and only 25 miles south of me. Very weird and probably low prob of that happening again.

Actually what is crazy is my sister and brother in law are literally next door neighbors with them, its farm country in western part of SVT. We were at their house yesterday, a sea of State Police and FBI as you can imagine. Obviously lots of speculation and theories going around. Horribly tragic and sad for sure. Its a well know family name that owns most of the land and has been in this area for generations.

Could be rust. I am seeing it in my lawn, but only the more shady section where the dew remains longer. Most of my lawn is sunny and will be prob be toast by the weekend if it doesnt rain this week. That has never happened in the 10 years I've been in VT, not even close really.

Only Sept 7th, but definitely has an early Oct vibe just going by how busy it is. Guess you can still do the "VT fall stuff" without any leaf peeping.

Honestly going with Scotts or Pennington isn't going to be that much cheaper I don't think. You could probably use a "contractors mix" for the cheapest option from Tractor Supply or somewhere like that, but you are going to get a lot of weed seeds and undesirable stuff in there. If you don't care about that really then maybe go that way. Otherwise price out Jonathan Green versus the Big Box store stuff and see what that actual cost difference is. Also looks pretty Steiny moving forward, seems like you have a big yard so would be hard to keep the stuff watered.

They have been around here in SVT for a few months..I want to say it was around $30 for a 4 pack at the place in town here.

Nice little drink...

60.8F with mod rain. Mitch and ineedsnow would be in summer heaven..lol Actually don't mind these type of days thrown in once in a while, especially with the dew fest this summer has been.

Fungus Identification can be really tricky. Could be brown patch, could be dollar spot, summer patch,pythium blight and others. Look to see if there are lesions on the leaf blades and what they look like. These fungus also effect different grass types. Brown patch only affects tall fescue really. I'm not sure if Kevin has Tall Fescue, he might have kentucky blue grass? Hard to tell from those pics, maybe it's a mix of grasses. I was going to say the same as SJones, doesn't look too bad and just monitor it. If it spreads like crazy then maybe think about an action step.

Yea, for spot treating those normally work pretty well. In my experience you also want to treat when the plant is smaller and younger, more mature plants are harder to kill.

If the Crabgrass infestation is really bad..say like Runnaway at 50% over 1.5 acres, probably going to take a couple years of pre-emergent use put down correctly and timed correctly to stop future Crabgrass. There are literally millions of seeds in the soil capable of sprouting.

Just warned..lol. Almost nothing here..less than a tenth. Been kind of steiny here all summer, lots of watering and lawn going in and out of browning.

There are a few different pre emergent options and they have different time periods that they cover based on rate of application. Some only cover as little as 30 days-ish. Some can cover 90-120. Depending on what you applied and when, you could have lost all coverage to stop crabgrass from coming up (if applied early spring) Sometimes you need to do a split application and apply again mid summer. Don't shoot the messenger about chemicals..lol. Just giving info. Also, the thicker you can get your grass also reduces weeds that will germinate. I don't use pre emergent, but do get some crabgrass pop up in spots and some other random stuff.

2 days ago I was outside and my cat chased 2 Fishers into the woods, saw it first hand. I wonder how aggressive they really are towards house cats? Interesting article below. Coyotes, yea that is a different story for sure. https://archive.nytimes.com/scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/do-fishers-really-eat-cats/

One of these work as well...

I did the same, letting it get little long to shade the soil, although it's been dry here so it has not been growing like it normally does. Defintley some drought stress showing yesterday.

Cars have that mid winter caked salt look from the dust and pollen around here. I have had about 1" of rain since May 1st, heavy watering of veggies and gardens

Just how the chamber draws it up for my daughter's outdoor school concert.

I don't think there is any repellent of any kind that works on them. Maybe @tamarack knows some old school concoction..

Leaf out exploding in the SVT banana belt. Low 70s today and mostly sunny. Perfect May day.

Decent cirrus in the Adirondaks right now, sun still coming through, so hope it holds like this!

Phin got banned..maybe 2 years ago at this point?

I do remember him posting about some streamer/upslope type scraps like you mentioned a number of times. It's obviously not prime upslope country, but good enough to get some leftovers? Certainly closer to the source region of orographic type snows than Gene would be. But, I am just spit balling and he would obviously know more than me...ha.

My property tax already almost doubled last year. They reassessed all of Manchester in 2023, they went through the roof.