But now things are pretty much all set up for tomorrow's annual
August gathering, and if by any chance anyone may consider if
Klipsch La scala speakers are worth the purchase. The answer is yes.
They full fill the air.
IMG_0958 (resized).JPGIMG_0960 (resized).JPGIMG_0959 (resized).JPGIMG_0961 (resized).JPGIMG_0962 (resized).JPGQuoted from luch:I think that's the emerald ash bore bug , those are all ash trees
dont care they can both rot in hell Luch.
Twice in the past 10 days
when heading back to the far backyard to inspect the water sprinklers;
my oscillating sprinkler has been moved about 10-15 ft from where I had placed it,
and turned upside down under a tree.
One time the garden hose was also twisted and kinked
and to make matters worse the hose was pierced in about 5 to 6 places
so when I turn on the sprinkler the water is also spraying from along the hose where it was pierced,
by either tiny sharp teeth or sharp claws.
At first I thought it might be a neighborhood kid playing a prank,
but there are not really any kids in the neighborhood where I live.
So was it a possum or skunk or maybe a raptor hawk, or feral cat thinking the garden hose was a snake?
Hose and sprinkler under tree mystery placment
Correct placement
If you zoom in onto hose, you can see water spritzing out some of the pierced spots.
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Excuse all the weeds in this far back lawn,
this part of the yard is also where my raised bed garden is located.
Same mystery hose sprinkler movement happened several times last year also.
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August gathering, and if by any chance anyone may consider if
Klipsch La scala speakers are worth the purchase. The answer is yes.
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I could stare at your property all day... my only concern is your blade height.
The ideal grass height is very much dependent on where you live, and what type of grass you’re growing. Warm weather grasses like Zoysia can have problems if it grows too long. I try to keep mine under 2” most of the time.
Quoted from freddy:Lime Heavy Will help break down that clay and green the grass!!!!
Just catching up on this thread and need to respond to this. Lime does not always help drainage and structure in clay soils. Lime requires an acid soil to react - in which case it will assist in soil structure improvement (and displacing sodium if this is an issue), however if the soil is nuetral or alkaline, then lime will do absolutely nothing to soil strucutre. You can go back and find white lumps in the soil years later, which is the lime still there, and doing nothing. I dig soil pits and find these regularly in our alkaline soils - evidence of previous applications of lime that did nothing.
So if your soil pH is over 6.5 (alkaline soil), then you should use gypsum to improve soil structure, if its under 5.5, lime is the best option. If its 5.5-6.5, then gypsum will still work, but you may get a response from lime - some of the farmers i advise in these situations use a blend of lime and gypsum.
Also - lime will only green the grass if there is a calcium deficiency - if there is adequate calcium, then it will have no effect.
Hope everyone enjoyed today's agronomy lesson!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I could stare at your property all day... my only concern is your blade height.
Guilty on the garage storage my plan was to rebuild it and then Covid prices came into effect so any changes are on now hold. Somehow ended up with a blood clot the first week of July so the yard/garage is a little messy. The grass is higher than it looks I only have one setting left on the mower for hight. The terrain here is not great for grass as the ground is mostly rock and acidic soil. Also have a cinch bug pest that destroys grass quite quickly when there is heat - the only solution is to spray with chemicals and we aren’t big fans of that. We haven’t sprayed any chemicals in almost 15 years, for some reason the cinch bug doesn’t go after clover roots so the clover manages to keep the lawn green and helps the grass recover. Cinch bug looks like specs of pepper and they go after the grass root system - at first the lawn looks like a dog pee burn and they can destroy a grass lawn in a couple of weeks - we learned that the hard way as we moved from western and had never heard of cinch bug.
Have been slowly working on the property for 20 years now
52831CE6-3A6E-4659-AF0F-D49E53A29862 (resized).jpegThe sprinkler hose vandal was back last night.
This time it was a different sprinkler and hose.
Got to figure out a solution, good hoses ain't cheap
maybe stake down the hose and sprinkler head
or ???
though this rainbird head was staked into lawn.
Quoted from pinwiztom:The sprinkler hose vandal was back last night.
This time it was a different sprinkler and hose.
Got to figure out a solution, good hoses ain't cheap
maybe stake down the hose and sprinkler head
or ???
though this rainbird head was staked into lawn.
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Lee valley here in canada used to sell a motion sensitive sprinkler head for scaring away geese - maybe getting sprayed by surprise might be enough to keep whatever it is away from the hose
Quoted from robm:Just catching up on this thread and need to respond to this. Lime does not always help drainage and structure in clay soils. Lime requires an acid soil to react - in which case it will assist in soil structure improvement (and displacing sodium if this is an issue), however if the soil is nuetral or alkaline, then lime will do absolutely nothing to soil strucutre. You can go back and find white lumps in the soil years later, which is the lime still there, and doing nothing. I dig soil pits and find these regularly in our alkaline soils - evidence of previous applications of lime that did nothing.
So if your soil pH is over 6.5 (alkaline soil), then you should use gypsum to improve soil structure, if its under 5.5, lime is the best option. If its 5.5-6.5, then gypsum will still work, but you may get a response from lime - some of the farmers i advise in these situations use a blend of lime and gypsum.
Also - lime will only green the grass if there is a calcium deficiency - if there is adequate calcium, then it will have no effect.
Hope everyone enjoyed today's agronomy lesson!
Maybe this is why I'll never had a good lawn. I'm throwing lime and gypsum. If one works two is better. I haven't resorted to this at the new house, but used to have a 110 lb lab that would drop a gallon of pee at a time in the same spots. I tried everything to keep grass, but never could.
Quoted from RyanStl:Maybe this is why I'll never had a good lawn. I'm throwing lime and gypsum. If one works two is better. I haven't resorted to this at the new house, but used to have a 110 lb lab that would drop a gallon of pee at a time in the same spots. I tried everything to keep grass, but never could.
It comes down to adressing the limiting factor. First step is get a cheap quick soil pH test and find out if your soil is acid or alkaline. Ideally get a proper soil test and it will tell you if there is a:
large lack (possible) of any nutrients
toxicity (unlikely) of any nutreints
Another soil chemcial issue holding you back (eg: salinity, sodicity, extreme pH, high chlorides)
What a soil will NOT tell you, is compaction, drainage, waterlogging and other physical constraints.
So once you work out what your main constraint is, then you adress it. If your issue is serious compaction, then lime/gypsum won't help, you really need to core the soil, or if the issue is severe lack of phosphorous, then apply that as fertiliser.
Quoted from robm:It comes down to adressing the limiting factor. First step is get a cheap quick soil pH test and find out if your soil is acid or alkaline. Ideally get a proper soil test and it will tell you if there is a:
large lack (possible) of any nutrients
toxicity (unlikely) of any nutreints
Another soil chemcial issue holding you back (eg: salinity, sodicity, extreme pH, high chlorides)
What a soil will NOT tell you, is compaction, drainage, waterlogging and other physical constraints.
So once you work out what your main constraint is, then you adress it. If your issue is serious compaction, then lime/gypsum won't help, you really need to core the soil, or if the issue is severe lack of phosphorous, then apply that as fertiliser.
This excellent advice. I'm ok drainage wise, depends on where you live and type of soil you are dealing with as well.
Quoted from pinwiztom:The sprinkler hose vandal was back last night.
This time it was a different sprinkler and hose.
Got to figure out a solution, good hoses ain't cheap
maybe stake down the hose and sprinkler head
or ???
though this rainbird head was staked into lawn.
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Checked the WLA handbook "farmers version" says rub cyanne pepper on hose.
Quoted from pinwiztom:The sprinkler hose vandal was back last night.
This time it was a different sprinkler and hose.
Got to figure out a solution, good hoses ain't cheap
maybe stake down the hose and sprinkler head
or ???
though this rainbird head was staked into lawn.
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That's one of them vinyl hoses. They always eventually fail after a couple of years. I bought a rubber hose 8 years ago. It's still going strong.
It does not help when a varmit is biting into the hose either.
I do have one old school 50ft rubber hose, they are also better in that they are not as prone to kink.
I have a tentative plan to add on a 3 ft extension using an old braided stainless steel washing machine water supply hose
that I have lying around, since the varmits tend to attack the hose right near the sprinkler head connection.
Quoted from pinwiztom:It does not help when a varmit is biting into the hose either.
I do have one old school 50ft rubber hose, they are also better in that they are not as prone to kink.
I have a tentative plan to add on a 3 ft extension using an old braided stainless steel washing machine water supply hose
that I have lying around, since the varmits tend to attack the hose right near the sprinkler head connection.
There could be something in the formulation of the hose attracting the varmints. Like how car wiring has some sort of bio degradable shit that mice like to chew on. But then I'd expect they'd be biting all over the length of it. They are probably licking it as a source of water and biting it to try to get more. If you have HVAC tape, you might try putting some of that around the ends.
Quoted from pinwiztom:It does not help when a varmit is biting into the hose either.
I do have one old school 50ft rubber hose, they are also better in that they are not as prone to kink.
I have a tentative plan to add on a 3 ft extension using an old braided stainless steel washing machine water supply hose
that I have lying around, since the varmits tend to attack the hose right near the sprinkler head connection.
wonder if this Rogue critter has figured out how to make a drinking sprinkler
Quoted from mcluvin:I'd expect they'd be biting all over the length of it
On one of my hoses that is the case, so it is like having extra sprinkler heads all along a portion of the hose.
Fortunately the holes are very small so it does not effect overall pressure to the main sprinkler head.
Quoted from freddy:Had a little friend stop by today!
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Nice! Is that a Perigrine?
Chris
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:Nice! Is that a Perigrine?
Chris
IDK
I think it’s a young red tail
He was as big as the crows he was bullying !
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:Nice! Is that a Perigrine?
Chris
Yes it is
My Zoyia is suffering a little bit from the constant rain. I probably need to put down some anti-fungal, we’re getting mushrooms everywhere so I know root disease is a possibility.
Got these mushrooms popping up everywhere. They’re really small, so I don’t think they harm the lawn at all. They’d probably go away if we could just get a few days without rain. It’s like Seattle up in here.
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The function of the shroom part you see above, is to spread more mushrooms. You need to aerate your lawn for better drainage.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Mushrooms are the fruit of underground fungi
The function of the shroom part you see above, is to spread more mushrooms. You need to aerate your lawn for better drainage.
It’s way too soon to aerate, this sod is just a few months old. I also read that the fungi that pushes these mushrooms up out of the ground is beneficial. So for now I’ll just ignore them.
Quoted from swampfire:It’s way too soon to aerate, this sod is just a few months old. I also read that the fungi that pushes these mushrooms up out of the ground is beneficial. So for now I’ll just ignore them.
Did the installers properly rake the ground beforehand? Just curious...should have been raked deep and watered before application.
Quoted from swampfire:It’s way too soon to aerate, this sod is just a few months old. I also read that the fungi that pushes these mushrooms up out of the ground is beneficial. So for now I’ll just ignore them.
Keep in mind you don't want people like me passing by your lawn a shaking their head.
Quoted from freddy:IDK
I think it’s a young red tail
He was as big as the crows he was bullying !
There is a falconry club not far from me. I looked into joining and it takes Years to master. I decided to stick with my guitar
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:There is a falconry club not far from me. I looked into joining and it takes Years to master. I decided to stick with my guitar
Me too!
The Squire I keep at my sons just fool around with! 
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They did a good job on prep, but they didn’t water it. I’m not surprised that we have mushrooms. There are tons of dead roots under the sod (bushes we had removed). In the long run, I think it’s all good for the soil. I’m just glad the bushes and crepe myrtles aren’t trying to come back up through the lawn.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Keep in mind you don't want people like me passing by your lawn a shaking their head.
Well I’d be very disappointed if you just drove by, without coming in to check out the basement game room. 
Quoted from woody76:Does anyone know what this is? weed or a grass?
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Looks like crabgrass - I think you need to use a pre-emergent for next year so it doesn't come back. I am no expert though 
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