All For Gardening
Come kill my yard with me
In Lawn Care

Come kill my yard with me


So I had the best yard in the neighborhood until May. I got a real bad fungus and it devoured my entire front yard. It went from incredible to awful almost over night. So I did what any yard guy would do. Hit it with everything I could find that promised growth and fungal destruction. I even sodded…. In June. I was desperate.

Nothing took

The fungus was a result of a low point that held water. This has been addressed by 5x mini dry wells.

Scott’s gave me my money back as their seed is guaranteed to grow. Seriously impressed by their customer support.

So fast forward to August. I nuked it with big box roundup and glyphosate. Also added in a cocktail of herbicide and fungicides.

I let it rest 1.5-2 weeks.

Yesterday I began the Renovation

Cut it to 2” on the Honda HRX (these mowers have the most sensitive carbs).

Then sun Joe’s the yard at max depth

Mowed with a bag to pick up debris

Then sun Joe’d at max depth.

Spread milorganite

Let it rest

Today I am putting down Anderson humichar, GCI seed, Scott’s starter and top dressing with peat.

Then water water water

Anything else I should do?

by PersimmonWild1976

23 Comments

  2. CyVet

    The nice clean death line you not at your neighbors property line makes my OCD happy. Nice sprayer control sir!

    Sometimes when I kill large patches of weeds spreading up from my pasture I will draw designs in them with the weed killer so people can see big smiley faces from the highway as they drive by our hillside lol.

    As far as what else to do? I got nothing. Sounds like you covered it all to me. Good luck with everything!!

  3. Hollimarker

    That tree will be the next thing to die with that pile of rocks around it. Please post on r/arborists for advice on that.

  5. ribbon_bully_1972

    Looks pretty comprehensive. I’d just suggest once the seedlings sprout to about 1” or so spoonfeed with fertilizer.

    And you’ll probably miss the grub season at this point but something to consider. They pop in September. If you decide to put down grub prevention…don’t use Scott’s it takes a few months to kick in. And the BioAdvance is more of a fast acting treatment for active grub destruction. But I think Ortho has one that’s kind of in between those two.

    Good luck!

  7. JimJalinsky

    Look at the ingredients for “big box roundup”. If it’s not just glyphosate, you might be jumping the gun on seeding. 

  10. bebba1

    Wow. Please use max caution dealing with chemicals. Gloves, mask, through wash with soap,etc.

  11. Djeekob

    Americans and their lawns 🤣 whats up with that. Or is it a mandatory thing from the h.o.a ?

  12. Xerlic

    Your neighbors must have been so confused by your before and after.

  14. Substantial-Log-2176

    For future reference, glyphosate and round up are the same thing

  15. Ricka77_New

    Humichar and seed won’t be friends together…even with Humichar being “pre-charged”. Also, the Scotts Starter should be the Turf Builder for Seeding, so you get some Mesotrione to block weeds….also, peat isn’t good as it sucks water from soil, and then let’s it evaporate quickly..

  16. Gniphe

    I admire your hard work, but unfortunately, fungus don’t care.

    I learned this lesson two years ago when my neighbor’s yard got root rot and then it killed mine.

    Make sure to throw down fungus preventative every fall and spring. Treating it is nigh impossible in my experience.

  18. skakid812

    Excuse the ignorance but why did you mention the HRX carb? I’ve been looking for one and I wasn’t sure what you meant by that!

  19. Kproper

    Bro, get rid of the rocks! Your grass is literally planted around it and on your property = your tree.

  22. oldbluer

    Seems like a lot of time and money for grass lol

Pin