Lawn Thread Gone Wild 2026

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, SJonesWX said:

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.

The big trees here are dead. There are a bunch in my back woods that are probably near nut producing age. Some have minor beech leaf disease…some not much at all. 

[powderfreak]

8 hours 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.

We are absolutely buried in knotweed all along the West Branch up here.

I don’t notice it in any of the larger feeders or flashier drainages like Notchbrook or Sterling Valley.

It’s the West Branch here that flows through a lot of agriculture acres, golf course, draining fert and manure along the way in the larger valley (relative size around here).

[BrianW]

Pretty crazy how green it is around the New Haven area that got 3-5 inches back on the 6th/7th. Took like a week for lawns to really respond and green up to all that rain.  Zero rain since and lawns are still going wild. Been having to mow like evey 3-4 days. 

 

 

[Brewbeer]

1 hour ago, BrianW said:

Pretty crazy how green it is around the New Haven area that got 3-5 inches back on the 6th/7th. Took like a week for lawns to really respond and green up to all that rain.  Zero rain since and lawns are still going wild. Been having to mow like evey 3-4 days. 

up this way if you aren't watering your lawn and it's in the sun, it's not growing and is mostly brown