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I use Scott's pre-emergent. I'm no landscaper that's for sure but I believe it's a fertilizer w/ pre-emergent. I usually only do one application in February but still end up w/ crabgrass later in the summer. Right now I have a lot of a clover type weed. It's real low to the ground and tightly bunched together.

clover is a winter weed. You will have to kill it. I personally don't like Scotts. It is too high for what you get. Scotts treats 5000 sq feet per bag. Most products that are used by lawn care companies treats 12,500 sq feet. If you have a John Deere Landscapes near you you can buy their products which are better and cheaper in the long run. Send me an email or PM and I will put you on a program that we use

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the nice thing about this winter being one just pile-o-crap is that I have actually gotten work done. The past two winters my productivity at work as been minimal at best. Maybe the end result will be a bigger raise?

I think this is the first year I haven't posted much during winter since way back when I first joing Eastern Wx..... oh well hopefully we will get a monster storm sometime before the end of March to make up for all the suffering us snow weenies have been through.

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True some people are getting the snow. My wife has a friend that lives in Denver and she has been telling us about all her adventures (she is a firefighter for Aurora).

But it seems the kind of storms they are getting are more fall/spring types (when they normally get most of their snow). So to me this is also a bad sign in that most of the county is and has been in a spring type pattern.

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HAHAH! All this no winter talk is depressing. I found a site that should get a few laughs. ;) haha

Enjoy!

http://weather.funnelfiasco.com/pickup_lines.html

Some of my favorites include:

  • Want to see my lightning rod?
  • I'd like to WeatherTap your booty.
  • I'm a meteorologist. I'm experienced in everything from the ground up.

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  • So, how many inches will I get?
  • Have you ever had multiple vorticies?
  • Wanna see my weather weenie?

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It is time for it. We have put some out in January and will continue putting it out. Temps have nothing to do with it. Feb 1 is always my goal to really start getting it out but this year we are behind a bi as we have been bus with pine needles and other things. I ordered chemicals today to start spraying broadleaf weeds

Agreed - you don't want to put it out too late, because weeds tend to germinate much earlier than legitimate grass. The fact that my lawn is more green than brown right now makes me wonder if I should have put it down several weeks ago. My bigger concern is more in judging when to put seedlings like blueberries in the ground during a season like this. I've already decided to keep garden veggies indoors longer this year, just in case the late freeze monster visits.

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I use Scott's pre-emergent. I'm no landscaper that's for sure but I believe it's a fertilizer w/ pre-emergent. I usually only do one application in February but still end up w/ crabgrass later in the summer. Right now I have a lot of a clover type weed. It's real low to the ground and tightly bunched together.

The thing about crabgrass is that it is an annual plant, so each plant dies in the fall. However, each plant produces a gazillion seeds that get deposited in your lawn that are ready and waiting to germinate once spring comes. I'm sure Powerstroke will get you on a good plan, but February pre-emergent is the key with crabgrass. You probably want to do multiple applications a year until you get it under control (say Feb and May/June). The more plants you prevent from germinating each spring, the less seeds that are produced and deposited into your lawn each fall.

A few other points...if your grass receives runoff from a road or driveway, a lot of times there will be crabgrass seeds from the road/driveway that get deposited into the adjoining lawn via rain runoff...so, those are areas that are very suceptible to new seedlings sprouting. Also, if you've planted grass in the fall and you've covered it with straw, that straw will contain a plethera of weed seeds in it, including crabgrass....which brings up another point that it is always best to seed in the fall (for cool-season grasses like fescue that is.....not bermudagrass) since pre-emergent applied in the spring will prevent any spring planted, desirable, grass seed from sprouting....not to mention that you want your fall grass to build roots through the winter as much as possible in time for the annual summer bake.

And lastly...Dallisgrass is sometimes mistaken for crabgrass....but Dallisgrass is a perennial weed that does not die each fall. Google it for images, but you'll want to just kill that with chemical or dig it up.

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The thing about crabgrass is that it is an annual plant, so each plant dies in the fall. However, each plant produces a gazillion seeds that get deposited in your lawn that are ready and waiting to germinate once spring comes. I'm sure Powerstroke will get you on a good plan, but February pre-emergent is the key with crabgrass. You probably want to do multiple applications a year until you get it under control (say Feb and May/June). The more plants you prevent from germinating each spring, the less seeds that are produced and deposited into your lawn each fall.

A few other points...if your grass receives runoff from a road or driveway, a lot of times there will be crabgrass seeds from the road/driveway that get deposited into the adjoining lawn via rain runoff...so, those are areas that are very suceptible to new seedlings sprouting. Also, if you've planted grass in the fall and you've covered it with straw, that straw will contain a plethera of weed seeds in it, including crabgrass....which brings up another point that it is always best to seed in the fall (for cool-season grasses like fescue that is.....not bermudagrass) since pre-emergent applied in the spring will prevent any spring planted, desirable, grass seed from sprouting....not to mention that you want your fall grass to build roots through the winter as much as possible in time for the annual summer bake.

And lastly...Dallisgrass is sometimes mistaken for crabgrass....but Dallisgrass is a perennial weed that does not die each fall. Google it for images, but you'll want to just kill that with chemical or dig it up.

But, how do you get rid of fescue?

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HAHAH! All this no winter talk is depressing. I found a site that should get a few laughs. ;) haha

Enjoy!

http://weather.funne...ckup_lines.html

Some of my favorites include:

  • Want to see my lightning rod?
  • I'd like to WeatherTap your booty.
  • I'm a meteorologist. I'm experienced in everything from the ground up.

Favorites among the people on this board might include:

  • So, how many inches will I get?
  • Have you ever had multiple vorticies?
  • Wanna see my weather weenie?

:lol: This made my day

But, how do you get rid of fescue?

All I have are weeds and sand :(

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Stranger things have happened. I would think this could be a case where somebody could get a big surprise snow. I am NOT saying that will happen, but it really does seem like a situation where it's not that far fetched. I said we would keep the GoM low but no way we would get cold, I need to learn to not speak in absolutes.

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Yep one of my employees is going to Co today and said they were expecting 16 inches tonight. Wowza!

Nice, I think I've got em beat. We said the heck with this winter in the south, so on Wednesday we're headed skiing to Whistler/Blackcomb in British Columbia. Snow report as of Feb 3rd: 23 feet of snow so far this season. Good lord. :ski:

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