Greenie

Milky spores work from Long Island south - said the late Ralph Snodsmith. Most of New England and all of Maine is too far north. My lawn in Bangor looks absolutely the best it's ever been. Very few weeds, thick, luxuriant turf. Sure, it needs mowing twice a week with all the rain we have received ( 8.28" rain in September ). It took 13 years for the lawn to recover from grubs to get to the point where it is right now. I had a long siege of sod webworms this summer but otherwise the lawn is in good shape. Purdue recommends a late fall (November) application of urea - which I have done for 15 plus years with good results for an earlier green up in the spring. If a pre-emergent weed killer is used in the spring any de-thatching or aeration done after that application will render the pre-emergent ineffective. Pre-emergents will allow turf to fill in via rhizomes but will not allow reseeding much success.

My experience with Dimension 2EW is much different - one early application keeps crabgrass out well into late August, sometimes later. I apply it along with Super Trimec when the forsythia flowers are fully out. If summer is really wet the Dimension tends to lose its effectiveness earlier in August. Any de-thatching efforts will greatly compromise Dimension's ability to act as a pre-emergent as weed seeds will be able to become established. After the first frost crabgrass is killed.

"Do you have a stratus gauge as well?, You can verify the two to see if there were drastic differences from the davis tipper or the manual gauge, Some of those cells yesterday looked to train for a time over the same areas north of here and DE towards your area." No other gauge but the airport is 1 1/2 miles away. I've made a habit out of recording my total accumulation vs BIA. The two are never the same but usually in the ballpark sometimes my amount is higher, sometimes BIA ... but not by this much. If I keep seeing large differences I can pick up a manual plastic gauge to check. BTW... Accuweather has revised tonight's rainfall to 1.75"

Not sure what to call this but I live less than two miles from the airport in Bangor - where accurate weather readings are collected and are available online. I have a wired David rain gauge that I zeroed out a few days ago and was still zeroed. Yesterday I spent some time laying out a hose and sprinkler on our lawn only to have rain start 10 minutes later. It poured. According to the gauge 1/2" fell in 20 minutes, .77" fell during the entire storm - which lasted with only light showers for several hours. This morning the Davis Weather Wizard III read .77". As I always do, I checked with the BIA site https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBGR.html and saw .02" during the entire storm. I've never seen such a big difference, so I looked at another resource https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/StateDailyPrecipReports.aspx?state=ME and saw no other nearby rainfall total even half of what we received. What happened? Did this storm form and then stall overhead?

I've purchased pesticides from DoMyOwn over the past 8 years or so - their prices are competitive. Something must have happened though - DMO no longer sells anything to Maine addresses. I emailed their customer service and they responded quickly that Maine addresses will soon be serviced again. I also called the Maine Bureau of Pesticide Control and they didn't know anything about DMO , so it probably was a paperwork issue. Hopefully DMO will take care of what needs to be done soon.