Lava Rock

23 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Not that easy, There's more then one and these are 50-70 yr old trees, Behind those are white pines so pine needles are problematic too, You can see them in the background.

Head first down the slide?

PF can confirm, it's gusty here at 1778' in Stowe. Wind was howling all night. Mansfield gusting to 70

Can someone ID this broadleaf weed?

Lawn is baked out at this point.  Even neighbors who water are struggling to keep things "green"
Plants, trees, shrubs are also showing the stress of lack of water.  

On 7/28/2020 at 10:17 AM, Dan said:

This time last year from the bottom of the image out was all thick woods. Made the decision earlier this year to stretch it out. Been fighting with the late winter, wet spring and now the dry weather, but it’s holding. Been working hard to not lose the investment. This was from about a week ago.




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Drool. Wicked nice, congrats!

44 minutes ago, dryslot said:

The SSE wind direction can get quite damaging, I'm already dealing with a couple of the lakes regions Marina concerns as there docks face those directions and have advised them to take necessary action to protect the boats that are tied up at least on the ends of them and move them closer in where they won't be exposed, They can handle gust in the 30's but that's at there limit.

naples marina full. don't think jimmy has any room to move boats in. Glad mine is pretty close to the shore.

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Isaias looked better last night, It's been a constant battle with this cyclone fighting wind shear and dry air which looks to still be the case again this morning.

Knock down those rain totals I guess

So with all the dry weather in June then bunch of rain caused a mold issue on part of our lawn, which killed it. I remember a few weeks ago noticing the blades of grass were black. Didn't think much of it as it rubbed off pretty easily. On the news this morning they had a report about lots of lawns experiencing this problem. Good to know it's not just our lawn but it's one more death blow to the yard

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/lawn-fungus-threatens-yards-across-new-england/97-693efae3-94c0-4c31-a480-06058e3356a3

I know this is a broken record at this point,  but what the hell is going on there? Looks like a plowed field ready for some crop planting. At this point maybe just hope weeds grow and fill in the all the bare spots?

We'll see if nearly 4" rn will do anything to "green up" the nasty back yard

Weed and feed doing it’s thing for all the haters that said I put fertilizer down to late .
Clover is dying and better grass is filling in 

Work has begun to transform this failed lawn area with more natural landscaping with shrubs and such.
Before and during. Will post when she's done.
 

Work has begun to transform this failed lawn area with more natural landscaping with shrubs and such.

Before and during. Will post when she's done.

haven't cut the lawn yet. Letting it grow to get through the heat of this week. She's pretty tall (10") in the areas where there is growth. I'm putting minimal effort into this this summer.

36.1f. Most of the snow gone but stiff NW wind and squalls atm. Pretty ridiculous for mother's day wknd

Best looking lawn though for sure, might be the sun but the green is really popping.
Looks almost fake, like someone sprayed foam on the bushes and stuff.

Ended with 4"

3.5"

This blows. 31.8f.

Home Depot has 40lb bags of top soil type mix for like $1.90. I bought like 30 bags and have been mixing the soil with seed in my wheelbarrow and patching spots in the yard. Works awesome.

Lots of work to do in the yard, and no childcare to offer me the time to do it. Just threw 5 yards of loam around the yard while my son napped this past week (mostly to raise the level of the yard to our new patio).
But I did notice while pulling some obvious weed/crab grass that I have grubs, at least in the esplanade between sidewalk and street. Definitely approaching 10 per square foot. I've noticed  a lot of blue jay and robin activity in the yard this spring so far and I'm wondering if that's what they are trying to get after. No I may need to deal with those before it starts to really kill the lawn. So far I don't have any obvious dead patches, but I don't want it to come to that.

Back to looking at how to deal with last summers disaster

Is now a good time to put down some Grub-Ex or should I wait a while? Also, I want to put down some treatment for chinch bugs which I believe destroyed our lawn last summer. Is it better (and more environmentally friendly) to apply a combo product or should I apply 2 different stand-alone treatments?

Given how much of our lawn got wiped out last season and mostly dead, I'm skipping the fertilizer for the most part. I will put some grub control down in the good spots.

19.5" is my final

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