🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 ⛈ The weather thread. The south is waking up and spring work has begun

[Krimson]

That right there made more sense than anything I've read or seen on YT videos on the subject. WHICH IS A LOT. Everyone just assumes you know what the numbers mean.

The funny part is, I've got a garage full of some different stuff I've bought over the last 2-3 years but balked at applying. Some of it I know is just stuff that give nutrients to the soil. And I need that. But I also need about 10 different kinds of weeds to vanish without making the dog vanish with them.

Best thing to do is get a soil sample kit from your county extension office and send it off. Cost you about $10 and it'll tell you exactly what you need. If you need lime,fertilizer isn't gonna help much.

Submitting Samples for Soil Testing - Alabama Cooperative Extension System

All customers can submit samples to the Auburn University Soil, Forage & Water Testing Laboratory for analysis. Routine soil analyses, as well as more advanced testing, are available.

www.aces.edu

 

[TerryP]

@Brandon Van de Graaff BTW, if you cut and spray this time of the year you'll get some results that confuse some people. The herbicide is sort of designed like food; plants eat it up. And, some take a quick growth spurt and end up having to be cut down again.

Dollarweed and Dicondra ... bet ya got 'em both. It takes a few shots.

 

[TerryP]

Best thing to do is get a soil sample kit from your county extension office and send it off. Cost you about $10 and it'll tell you exactly what you need. If you need lime,fertilizer isn't gonna help much.

Submitting Samples for Soil Testing - Alabama Cooperative Extension System

All customers can submit samples to the Auburn University Soil, Forage & Water Testing Laboratory for analysis. Routine soil analyses, as well as more advanced testing, are available.

www.aces.edu

I saw one at ACE for $10 the other day. I've never looked at the retail versions.

Clemson is $6; they send a kit.

 

[64Tide]

Where are you again?

This time of the year you should see two kinds; poa annua is one you can't kill. It's a type of blue grass with small white seed heads. The heat will kill it soon. The rest of them should be broadleaf weeds. So, look for that, broad leaf weed control. It'll have pictures on it of dandelions and shit like that. It's good for now...loses it's punch when you get in the mid 80's and higher.

It's a three way mix. So, if you look at the chemicals you'll see three. Look for 2,4 D... (long word then salt.) Dicamba. And MCPA (long as name...look for the letters.)

Nitrogen (first number) needs warm soil to break down correctly...needs to be high 70's, low 80's for awhile to warm up: just like water temps.

Weed B Gone works very well in central Ala for broad leaf weeds

 

[TerryP]

I have to make a trip to buy a small 8-10" tree saw. It's been at least a decade since I cut back the crepe myrtles; it'll be another before I do it again. One of those "cheap tool trips" is what I can't escape thinking: Harbor Freight kind of purchase.

 

[TerryP]

Weed B Gone works very well in central Ala for broad leaf weeds

 

[TerryP]

Weed B Gone works very well in central Ala for broad leaf weeds

I had a lawn company in Memphis in the late 80's, early 90's. The same chemicals we used then are used now ... changes in what the "sausage" was made from, but still called "sausage." 2,4 D is an example...thinking that was Dow Chemicals the EPA had their sights on at the time.

 

[Krimson]

I saw one at ACE for $10 the other day. I've never looked at the retail versions.

Clemson is $6; they send a kit.

You can buy them online but it's cheaper at the extension office. Pretty sure auburn tests the ones in alabama.

 

[PurlJam]

Today is one of my least favorite days of the year... mowing season begins.

At least it's cooled off some, but that's about the only positive.

Don't mind the grass but mowing does suck.