Brewbeer Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: lawn had slowed you mowed too soon should have let it get longer before mowing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 11 minutes ago, Brewbeer said: you mowed too soon should have let it get longer before mowing It needed it two weeks ago. Mowed again yesterday. It’s been very dry . May 20 is the magic date each year for lawns in terms of when they look best and at peak. After that date it’s all down hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Mine is usually in June. Still looks meh, especially in back. Front is good. But Stein is bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 Great article on the nasty weeds we all continue to kill . It’s a battle , but we overcome https://share.google/ATiD7pMfdMiTlTOQD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Light my money on fire, poison my watershed, and give my whole family cancer? How could I say no? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Dandelions are blooming. Making sure I let them flower and spread their seed this year like tblizz. 2 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 We bloom, we use snow messurement tools before harvest, and we arrange. Oh and we always dandy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 On 5/6/2026 at 6:48 PM, Damage In Tolland said: It needed it two weeks ago. Mowed again yesterday. It’s been very dry . May 20 is the magic date each year for lawns in terms of when they look best and at peak. After that date it’s all down hill Yeah…. Stein has become an annual thing. Absolutely destroyed my lawn last year. Downright murdered my new grass and I don’t think I mowed from like July yo September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Did my second mowing at Pit2 lastnight and discovered the lawn really looks crappy. It had always been pretty darn good looking, so I'm not sure what happened to it over the last 6 months. Biggest problem is there's suddenly a bunch of dandelions. A secondary concern is other types of things (not crabgrass) that' appearing. What do you recommend for getting rid of at least the dandelions? I cold probably put down some seed as well. I need to do things in the right order. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Did my second mowing at Pit2 lastnight and discovered the lawn really looks crappy. It had always been pretty darn good looking, so I'm not sure what happened to it over the last 6 months. Biggest problem is there's suddenly a bunch of dandelions. A secondary concern is other types of things (not crabgrass) that' appearing. What do you recommend for getting rid of at least the dandelions? I cold probably put down some seed as well. I need to do things in the right order. Help!Our lawn looks worse then usual but that's par for the course. Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 9 hours ago, moneypitmike said: Did my second mowing at Pit2 lastnight and discovered the lawn really looks crappy. It had always been pretty darn good looking, so I'm not sure what happened to it over the last 6 months. Biggest problem is there's suddenly a bunch of dandelions. A secondary concern is other types of things (not crabgrass) that' appearing. What do you recommend for getting rid of at least the dandelions? I cold probably put down some seed as well. I need to do things in the right order. Help! Sounds like you’re not fertilizing enough or at all . Too late to kill dandie’s now . You can spot treat with spray but that won’t prevent those nasty things from coming back next year. If you don’t fertilize , the lawn will continue to deteriorate like that each year 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Agree with Damaged, if you feed the grass, it will help keep the weeds at bay. I do early season and late season fertilizer applications, before the weeds start growing, and after they have more or less stopped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 On 5/13/2026 at 4:24 AM, moneypitmike said: Did my second mowing at Pit2 lastnight and discovered the lawn really looks crappy. It had always been pretty darn good looking, so I'm not sure what happened to it over the last 6 months. Biggest problem is there's suddenly a bunch of dandelions. A secondary concern is other types of things (not crabgrass) that' appearing. What do you recommend for getting rid of at least the dandelions? I cold probably put down some seed as well. I need to do things in the right order. Help! If you dont want to look at them for another 2 weeks (as flowering winds down), pull them with one of those extendable tools. Like $30 on Amazon. Next year hit them with pre-emergent (corn gluten) like the 2nd week of April, then the 1st week of May. It'll take care of that other grass, too. It's remarkably effective. Putting any synthetic fertilizer or herbicide that close to water is about the worst thing you could do. And it won't do anything for your current situation, either. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 No mow May well under way! Going ALL THE WAY ! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 15 hours ago, Brewbeer said: No mow May well under way! Going ALL THE WAY ! Look at all those dandelions for the bees! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 On 5/17/2026 at 8:01 AM, IrishRob17 said: Look at all those dandelions for the bees! Its funny, I was reading something a little while back that Dandelions really aren't a great food source for our native bees. No Mow May can provide some benefits with natural food sources with native stuff, but we also have a lot invasive weeds that can spread a ton of unwanted weeds seeds as well (that are not any benefit for pollinators and can be aggressive in spreading). I'm not saying a perfect manicured lawn is a better option, but there are definitely are a lot native perennials and shrubs that you can plant that provide a better food source for most of our native pollinators. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 Lawns looking great across the area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Heavy heavy pollen, oak dongs and helicopters. Gross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 49 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said: Heavy heavy pollen, oak dongs and helicopters. Gross Watch out for tblizz in the trees 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 My bent grass pitch and putt looking good this year . 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 man, the mugwort is getting bad. So hard to get rid of, but thankfully it's in a lawn expansion project that I did several years ago, but don't care much about, but still, stuff is a bitch to get rid of without nuking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 On 5/6/2026 at 6:48 PM, Damage In Tolland said: May 20 is the magic date each year for lawns in terms of when they look best and at peak. After that date it’s all down hill downhill decline has been rapid this year, the portions of my lawn that aren't reached by the irrigation system have stopped growing completely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 Unless your pissing money away irrigating, lawns are toast here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuietCorner Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 I've noticed mine isn't growing nearly as I remember in years past. Everyone's lawns are looking crispy and it's not even July. I hope we get a decent amount of rain tonight into tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Cut grass today. Last time for the summer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted Wednesday at 01:10 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 01:10 PM Took a walk along each side of the road in front of the house… Tons of poison ivy on boths sides. Noticed some last year, but it’s nuts this year and is now trying to work into my yard. Tons of ragweed starting And a 2 stalk clump of knotweed about 2ft tall They use bottom of the barrel fill along the road and let the invasives go nuts. Then they go around with chems spraying the shit a couple of years later. Maddening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted Wednesday at 04:21 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:21 PM 3 hours ago, dendrite said: Took a walk along each side of the road in front of the house… Tons of poison ivy on boths sides. Noticed some last year, but it’s nuts this year and is now trying to work into my yard. Tons of ragweed starting And a 2 stalk clump of knotweed about 2ft tall They use bottom of the barrel fill along the road and let the invasives go nuts. Then they go around with chems spraying the shit a couple of years later. Maddening i noticed the PI is thriving this year. i try to stay on top of it and spray it with a targeted weed spray every year (I use poison ivy killer, only targets viney stuff including oriental bittersweet), this year the plants are bigger with huge leaves. good luck with the knotweed, there are a bunch of different removal strategies out there (most are voodoo), but unless you use ROund Up or similar, you are unlikely to succeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted Wednesday at 04:46 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:46 PM On 5/6/2026 at 6:36 PM, Brewbeer said: you mowed too soon should have let it get longer before mowing Rule #1 Never mow during a heatwave RULE#2 Mow less often during the summer RULE#3 raise the height of the lawnmower wheels to do a "long" cut Rule#4 see rules # 1,2, and 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted Wednesday at 04:51 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:51 PM 29 minutes ago, SJonesWX said: i noticed the PI is thriving this year. i try to stay on top of it and spray it with a targeted weed spray every year (I use poison ivy killer, only targets viney stuff including oriental bittersweet), this year the plants are bigger with huge leaves. good luck with the knotweed, there are a bunch of different removal strategies out there (most are voodoo), but unless you use ROund Up or similar, you are unlikely to succeed It was a pioneer clump. I check for it every year because I'm paranoid. I think I got it early enough with all roots before it could send out the rhizomes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted Wednesday at 06:45 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 06:45 PM 1 hour ago, dendrite said: It was a pioneer clump. I check for it every year because I'm paranoid. I think I got it early enough with all roots before it could send out the rhizomes. good luck. i have seen knotweed in my area, but not in my 'hood. but i do keep a close eye out for it. I hate the invasive crap. meanwhile, pretty much every beech tree in my 'hood is either dead or dying. sad, as I really like the look of beeches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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