As winter approaches, it’s important to remember not to fertilize your lawn when temps drop below $40 Fahrenheit…./s
I’m new to lawn care and I live in Michigan and it’s starting to get cold so wasn’t sure if it was too cold to fertilize my lawn. This is what AI told me. Sorry if jokes aren’t allowed here
Luckily for me, lawn care always cost more than $40 degrees
spicymeatmemes
I was looking up replacement blades for my electric mower, and the bot started giving me tips on how to change the blade.
Step 1: take out spark plugs
Step 2: be careful to not flood the engine while turning the unit over.
On an electric mower.
Edit: for the Ai-ers, I wasn’t looking up how to change it. Just the part itself. The search box was over reaching. AI is slop.
dbarila
Don’t tell me what to do with my money AI bot!
Babalon33
In Canada it’s $55 F. Adjusted for currency exchange maybe?
ImmediateRaisin5802
Dang! My lawn has been under $40 all year 🙁
GangstaRIB
To be fair this is solid advice for the average home owner. You can still fertilize since you have cool season grass, just use less… like .25/.5 lbs per M. After the first frost just let it ride. Its a good time to get some K down though.
Comprehensive_Ad9846
Use this to check your soil temps. Most if not all of Michigan safe to fertilize now.
$40-$50 per fahrenheit? We have micro-transactions for weather now!?
Wild_Glass1606
So what should you do
Sugar_alcohol_shits
Joking aside, is it too late to add winter fertilizer?
Zone 6A – Denver, CO. New Kentucky blue grass sod from July.
uberiffic
Sorry to everyone for the cold weather. I put down a bunch of grass seed 2 days ago and the temp immediately plummeted.
HolidayWallaby
Those dollar signs are a LaTeX formatting syntax that didn’t get rendered properly
Individual_Agency703
The errant dollar signs are a bug in the Gemini text formatting. I’ve seen it in everyday Google search results too.
MrK521
Formatting issue with LaTeX. Isn’t supposed to mean money lol. It’s like putting an asterisk (*) before and after text in Reddit to make it italicized.
NCdiver-n-fisherman
AI slop. Please water lawn before watering lawn. Goodbye.
johnmayersucks
Is this only a temp thing or is it an amount of light thing? If I’m in a very temperate environment that never gets that cold, never in the 40’s rarely in the low 50’s even, can I ignore most of this as my grass is never really going dormant?
ZedRita
Switched to Duck Duck Go cause they let me turn this crap off. Search results are bad but not this bad.
Clean-Negotiation414
Lowest my lawn is atleast a Benjamin
AdPutrid6965
When should you stop water a lawn?
laguna1126
Laughs in San Antonio…looks at lawn killed by the summer heat sadly. 🙁
giraffe_onaraft
I was told by lawn pros on YouTube that fall is a perfectly acceptable time to fertilize. It’s actually the ideal time.
sososoboring
Man, Temperature just keeps getting more and more expensive.
thatguynobodyliked
Air temperature is irrelevant. The forty degree rule is for the ground temperature. And if the grass is dormant it’s pointless to fert. It’s like offering you dinner while you’re asleep.
Saynt614
Does the winter guard from Scotts count? Had a few 38 degree mornings out here already
VeganWerewolf
I have only had Bermuda and zoysia but I think it depends on the grass…
budderflyer
I’m in Fargo, ND where it’s colder than most anywhere right now. My grass is still growing albeit slowly even with nights into the 30s. Of course my neighbors isn’t because they didn’t properly fertilize or irrigate.
No-comment-at-all
I measure my money in Kelvins, so it makes me have more money.
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Luckily for me, lawn care always cost more than $40 degrees
I was looking up replacement blades for my electric mower, and the bot started giving me tips on how to change the blade.
Step 1: take out spark plugs
Step 2: be careful to not flood the engine while turning the unit over.
On an electric mower.
Edit: for the Ai-ers, I wasn’t looking up how to change it. Just the part itself. The search box was over reaching. AI is slop.
Don’t tell me what to do with my money AI bot!
In Canada it’s $55 F. Adjusted for currency exchange maybe?
Dang! My lawn has been under $40 all year 🙁
To be fair this is solid advice for the average home owner. You can still fertilize since you have cool season grass, just use less… like .25/.5 lbs per M. After the first frost just let it ride. Its a good time to get some K down though.
Use this to check your soil temps. Most if not all of Michigan safe to fertilize now.
https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature
$40-$50 per fahrenheit? We have micro-transactions for weather now!?
So what should you do
Joking aside, is it too late to add winter fertilizer?
Zone 6A – Denver, CO. New Kentucky blue grass sod from July.
Sorry to everyone for the cold weather. I put down a bunch of grass seed 2 days ago and the temp immediately plummeted.
Those dollar signs are a LaTeX formatting syntax that didn’t get rendered properly
The errant dollar signs are a bug in the Gemini text formatting. I’ve seen it in everyday Google search results too.
Formatting issue with LaTeX. Isn’t supposed to mean money lol. It’s like putting an asterisk (*) before and after text in Reddit to make it italicized.
AI slop. Please water lawn before watering lawn. Goodbye.
Is this only a temp thing or is it an amount of light thing? If I’m in a very temperate environment that never gets that cold, never in the 40’s rarely in the low 50’s even, can I ignore most of this as my grass is never really going dormant?
Switched to Duck Duck Go cause they let me turn this crap off. Search results are bad but not this bad.
Lowest my lawn is atleast a Benjamin
When should you stop water a lawn?
Laughs in San Antonio…looks at lawn killed by the summer heat sadly. 🙁
I was told by lawn pros on YouTube that fall is a perfectly acceptable time to fertilize. It’s actually the ideal time.
Man, Temperature just keeps getting more and more expensive.
Air temperature is irrelevant. The forty degree rule is for the ground temperature. And if the grass is dormant it’s pointless to fert. It’s like offering you dinner while you’re asleep.
Does the winter guard from Scotts count? Had a few 38 degree mornings out here already
I have only had Bermuda and zoysia but I think it depends on the grass…
I’m in Fargo, ND where it’s colder than most anywhere right now. My grass is still growing albeit slowly even with nights into the 30s. Of course my neighbors isn’t because they didn’t properly fertilize or irrigate.
I measure my money in Kelvins, so it makes me have more money.
What about polymer coated urea?
Gemini recommends you[ eat at least a rock a day](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F865q5otx0d2d1.jpeg) as well.
Lucky for me I won’t see 40° temps for another 2 months