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Should stay nice and juicy with those high dews.

Well said ^^^^^^^^^^ 100% agree

The problem is you even have people arguing over how to use please excuse my dear aunt sally.

First I saw this. Congrats on the la nina.

If it's due to injury and not fungal then you may need another treatment. A lot of trees heal over and recover. I know the tree company Gene uses has used a bark sealment around damaged areas of his horsechestnut tree.

Weenies are really confused about this?

You can try some mud packs on the cankers. That’s what they do to keep american chestnut trees with blight alive. https://www.acf.org/ma-ri/the-project/mudpacking-cankers/ There’s more pics and vids of the process online. I’d assume you’d have a better success rate than that with chestnuts.

Definitely looks a little weird during the dormant season without snowcover (April and Nov/Dec). And yeah, it’s not an overnight fix. I’d probably just overseed before the first snow. Come spring it’s ready to go once the glacier is gone. I’d stay away from planting zoysia via seed too.

I think I went through zoysia farm. Looks like they had trouble with their harvest and are out for the season. But here’s their instructions... https://www1.zoysiafarms.com/plantzoy.jsp I pretty much put mine in bare spots and didn’t have to do a large area. Now that it’s established I can take my own plugs from that if I want. They’d probably take off even faster than the ones I had shipped. This was fall 16 to early fall 18. It’s pretty much full coverage this summer.

I'll have to find the site where I got mine from.

I don't think you're much different than my location temp wise. Frequent snowcover will help it as well.I'd probably be more worried about zoysia in a frost/torch pocket like CON than up where I am.You could buy a sheet or two of plugs and just let them go. I will say my plugs in the back that I planted in loosened, bare soil took off a lot faster than the ones that I planted in the hard pack front that was already full of grass and weeds.

Yeah Lava. You may want to try the zoysia. Maybe try a little area of it to see how it does in your area but it grows fine here. You don’t radiate well either which helps. The zoysia won’t care about sun and dryness once it starts getting established and it will choke out all of the weeds since it almost acts like a weed itself. You’ll just have to deal with a dormant lawn in the beginning of May and Oct/Nov but it should thrive during the summer when you want it green the most. It’s really no fuss. It just takes awhile to fill in...like a few years if you space the plugs a foot apart.

You're right. Just reread Will's post.

I think the goal is to make them use up all of the oxygen. A gap would give them air exchange. How’s it working?

I bust balls with you, but jesus h. That SW slope must just bake. You probably need irrigation to get the look you want...either that or plant a few trees for extra shade. But I’m sure you don’t want to block the views.

Oh hey. More shooting victims.

Red thread starting to go wild here.

I'm leaning Northeastern Pine Sawyer for mine. I think that's the same thing Bob mentioned based on pics I see. At least it isn't the ALB.

Here’s another one. Guy at work thought it’d be funny to tack this sucker up on the wall to scare everyone. I see they’re invasive, but what do they seriously threaten? Pines?

Yup. I think that's it. Never heard of them.

The min is not in the books yet for today, but close enough. Basically 2 big precip events this month and that's it minus a measly early tenth. MAX MIN PCPN WND SNOW DEPTH 07/01 81.8 56.0 0.00 18 0.0 0 07/02 83.6 62.2 T 12 0.0 0 07/03 85.0 59.4 0.00 14 0.0 0 07/04 86.6 60.4 0.00 9 0.0 0 07/05 88.3 61.3 0.00 14 0.0 0 07/06 88.6 67.2 0.09 26 0.0 0 07/07 77.7 57.6 0.00 14 0.0 0 07/08 80.3 51.7 0.00 8 0.0 0 07/09 83.1 53.0 0.00 14 0.0 0 07/10 84.6 57.0 0.00 10 0.0 0 07/11 81.7 60.5 0.88 13 0.0 0 07/12 81.1 64.7 0.54 13 0.0 0 07/13 82.4 60.2 0.00 10 0.0 0 07/14 81.6 61.3 0.00 18 0.0 0 07/15 78.5 57.9 0.00 19 0.0 0 07/16 81.6 55.1 T 15 0.0 0 07/17 83.2 65.4 T 9 0.0 0 07/18 78.6 60.4 0.00 13 0.0 0 07/19 87.6 59.1 0.00 11 0.0 0 07/20 91.5 71.1 0.00 9 0.0 0 07/21 89.2 67.7 0.00 20 0.0 0 07/22 72.7 62.5 0.95 9 0.0 0 07/23 70.5 59.5 0.36 8 0.0 0 07/24 77.1 58.2 0.00 16 0.0 0 07/25 78.9 53.4 0.00 10 0.0 0 07/26 82.5 57.2 0.00 9 0.0 0 07/27 83.6 59.6 0.00 11 0.0 0 07/28 86.1 61.1 0.00 12 0.0 0 07/29 86.1 65.5 0.00 10 0.0 0 07/30 89.1 64.1 0.00 11 0.0 0 07/31 80.9 64.5 T 8 0.0 0

I've seen 3 of these things in the past few days. I had never seen one before this.

Thanks...def looks like oak borer longhorned beetle.

Wtf is this?

Except July 09.