BrianW

If anyone wants to go an organic route on their lawn I have been having amazing success with the following products. I'm using this in my 5000 sqft fenced in area for my small dog. Purely Organics for lawn fertilizer. Available at Home Depot. I believe its made from recycled grain from a brewery. Works similar to Milorganite with the soil and you can't burn your lawn with it. I use 3 bags a year. $31.97 for 25lb bag that does 5000 sqft. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Purely-Organic-Products-25-lb-Dry-Lawn-Food-Fertilizer-LFJRDK1/204279747#ratings-and-reviews I don't use much of any herbicides. A healthy established lawn doesn't really need any. I will walk around and spot treat with a sprayer using some Tenacity which is semi organic made from Mesotrione derived from the bottle brush plant. https://www.greencastonline.com/labels/tenacity I also use this organic one that is just Iron HEDTA. https://www.arbico-organics.com/product/bonide-captain-jacks-lawnweed-brew/natural-organic-weed-control For ticks and insects I spray wondercide every 30 days. Its just cedarwood oil. I also have had amazing success putting their cedarwood oil on my dog for ticks. https://www.wondercide.com/ For grubs I drop a bag of Grub Gone. Its active ingredient is Bt, a naturally-occurring soil bacterium https://beetlegone.com/products/grub-gone Here is Woody enjoying the organic lawn.

Looks like a perfect weekend with the rain to drop some fertilizer or pre emergant on the lawn. Soil temperatures in a good portion of southern areas have been averaging above 50 for 5 days. Check yours here. https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature

I already mowed twice here in Branford. I put down my organic fertilizer when the forsythia were blooming like 3 weeks ago. Who do you have for water there? I have the regional water authority which is a non profit so water is cheap. Water bill is about $25 month and will spike to $60-75 in the summer watering the lawn and plants. Some water companies like Eversource are for profit and charge huge money for water. A friend in Fairfield County pays like 5 times what I do for water.

Lots of mowers running today and yesterday down on the shoreline.

You need to move back to Branford. Plenty of trees budding, flowers out and lawns are nice and green...

Remember that powerline in Maine and New Hampshire that got blocked from bringing cheap Hydro power into New England... Hydro Quebec comparing their rates for 1000 kwh...

That's just the fenced in part for my dog. The lawn is actually 100% organic. I use organic fertilizer that is leftover brewing grains and cedarwood oil for ticks/insects.

Its time. I'm probably 10 days away from my first cut.

Totals from NBC CT. Here's a look at the snowfall reports so far in the state: Scotland: 6.8 inches Tolland: 6.5 inches Colebrook: 6.0 inches New Fairfield: 5.8 inches Bridgeport: 5.5 inches Enfield: 5.5 inches Ivoryton: 5 inches Portland: 5 inches Watertown: 5 inches Ansonia: 4.7 inches Warren: 4.5 inches Wethersfield: 4.5 inches

I was working on a house near Uconn yesterday and there was some pretty big ice just south of him when I drove by the Bolton Lakes where 384/44 meet. There was nothing in the lower elevations by Uconn.

Roads are good up that way? Heading up to the hills today to work on a house near Uconn.

Looks like its going to be a fun commute for those up North.

28 with a beautiful sunrise here on the CT shoreline.

At least they got their record in.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/ASOS/current.phtml?sortcol=ts&network=CT_ASOS&metar=no&sorder=asc&format=html

GON 71

67 here in Branford. I think 70 might happen at HVN, BDR, and GON.

This thread...

My solar panels produced more this week then the entire month of Jan...

You really have to look at the shoreline stations like BDR, GON and HVN. Its been an absolute furnace down here. HVN has hit 50 or above 17 days since Jan 1st. With 2 highs of 62 in Jan/Feb Incredible. I volunteer for our local land trust and red maples and weeping willow trees will be leafed out in another week..

They can steer the balloons using altitude and upper level air currents. Google has a bunch of their Loon balloons that can be tracked on any ADS flight tracking software. I think the last balloon was at 60k in altitude. Loon deployed its high-altitude balloon network into the stratosphere, between altitudes of 18 km and 25 km. The company stated that the particular altitude and layer of the stratosphere is advantageous for the balloons because of its low wind speeds, which are usually recorded between 5 mph and 20 mph (10 km/h to 30 km/h). The layer is also an area of minimal turbulence. The company said it was able to model the seasonal, longitudinal and latitudinal wind speed variations, allowing them to adjust the placements of their balloons.[38] Loon claimed it could control the latitudinal and longitudinal position of its high-altitude balloons by changing their altitude. They did this by adjusting the volume and density of internal gas (which is composed of either helium, hydrogen or another lighter-than-air substance), which allowed the balloon's variable buoyancy system to control the altitude. Additionally, Google had indicated that the balloons were possibly constructed from materials like metalized Mylar, BoPET, or a highly flexible latex or rubber material, like chloroprene.[38]