Got a new sale today, centipede all over. Front yard is full sun, easy to get into shape. Backyard looks like shit.
So from the green pole to the bird bath is a somewhat line of where the grass goes to more shit. I checked everything. No sign of anything. No large patch, no history of mole crickets, no septic lines. He did have a “40 ft” crepe Myrtle cut down ( see stump by customer) but that just didn’t add up to be the cause based on orientation of sun.
In NC we have extension coordinators for each county, the guy told my new customer that his soil is hydrophobic. I’ve never ran into this and called 🐂 💩 . I dug up a hole and got some dirt under a water hose and it turned to mud.
As some of you managers know, people lie or leave out details a lot of times. I consider myself a lawn detective the first 10 mins on a lawn. But let’s say it is hydrophobic. What’s the test for this? I’m familiar with wetting agents (think I saw humic acid too?)and from what I’ve gathered it’s a crapshoot to whether it will work well or not.
by Turfdad1015
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Also, the pic sucks. Don’t follow my lead but there was no point of a close up, it’s all shit shit shit. And the demarcation line is super blurry in real life sooooo yeah, I took the pic to make the customer feel better 😂 and for when he bitches about spurge in 3 years after I fix this shit—I’ll bring this pic back up 😇
If you run sprinklers for 5-8 minutes, then what happens? Does it stay pooled on the surface, run off, or seep in slowly?