If you grow from seed I would stay away from preem. I tried to preem part of my yard then till in spring and plant bermuda and I still got 0 growth after breakingup the preem layer. There's also studies that suggest that pre-emergent interferes with root growth on young plants
To maintain a size of 3–4' w x 3–4' h, Knock Out® Roses should be cut back once a year to 12” high. Check your rose bush from time to time in late winter/early spring, and when you start to see new shoots growing from the canes on your rose bush, that's a good sign that it's time to prune.
People love a great looking, easy to grow shrub and trees! See (Leyland Cypress, Bradford pair, kO roses, and before most of yalls time, red tip photonia) they are great, until that disease finally gets to them or people realize how horrible of a plant they are! ( Bradford)
I'm glad the red tips got zapped they sucked in spring time.
I just looked up Arizona cypress. I am going to need a crap load of trees and shrubs for around the pool (not too close though). Privacy hedges etc. Probably gets too big but pretty for somewhere.
Green giants or emerald greens? I have planted both and are so different in size and how they look. I figured out I really have no need for such tall ones like the Green giants. Even for privacy. Love them both and the smell.....???
If you planted for zone 8, you be fine. I always like to be in the middle of recommended zones on plants, example Deodar Cedar is zone 6-9, which thrives in your zones. I never liked to be in last recommended zone, like Alberta spruce 2-7, if that makes any sense, cause it usually means they don’t tolerate heat well
Sunshine ligustrum is one of my new favorites! Great plant! Love tea olives also! Check out Newlifenursery, they are out of Pelzer SC, online and in person, good supply of unusual plants
I planted 15 after this past Christmas lol where it was so warm. Got a steal 5+ footers for 20 bucks each. I'll check in spring and see if they have anymore that cheap. You are about hour10 mins away from where I got them (Ramseur). Lowes/HD will charge you over 50-60 for one that size.
Look into the "Baby doll" and "Little Gem" mini-magnolia trees. My neighbor went that route for privacy. They require little to no maintenance...ever. plus they smell delicious.
Teddy bear is a good one too! Had it about 10 years only grew about 2-3’ of new growth and about a foot of width, from the time I planted it
You can get a fungicide but it's not as easy to get it to work on centipede. Are these areas poor draining, exposed to extra nitrogen, compacted by something?
No drainage issue and not exposed to extra nitrogen..... the property was woods before we moved here 22 years ago and I've always wondered if the decaying matter in the soil had any effect on it. We cleared the land off in 2000 and they removed all stumps and as many roots as possible but I still think were deep roots/stump bases, etc that have decayed over time, it's been so long shouldn't be an issue now I wouldn't think though.
Looks kind of like a fairy ring, fairy reign usually have mushrooms in the circle@SD I should take pictures but the below image (not my lawn) is exactly what it looks like, so a fairy ring I guess?
Yeah funny thing is we get mushrooms in our yard in circles or right in a line like someone planted a row but it's not in these circles of dead grass. Also, that usually when it's much wetter than it is now.
I've been able to remedy one with aerating really well and fungicideYeah funny thing is we get mushrooms in our yard in circles or right in a line like someone planted a row but it's not in these circles of dead grass. Also, that usually when it's much wetter than it is now.
Anyway I'm contemplating digging up those rings, removing all dead grass, about an inch of so of soil and filling it with good topsoil, then reseed and see what happens. Lot of work but might be about only thing can do ?
Which fungicide did you use?
Yeah, I’m not the best with turf grasses, but I do believe the fairy ring, is a fungus, it just somehow materializes as a ring of dead grass
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Also confirms my thoughts earlier about the dead roots, etc probably left in the ground when land was cleared when we moved there.Fairy Ring
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Good write up. It may have been the aerating and watering that really did the trick accordingto the above. Basically I stopped the spread then the turf was able to fill back in by the next season. I used propiconazole that I had around from some brown patch.
This same thing happened in my parents centipede. I'd probably aerate and check the rest of the lawn for thatch to see if you might need to give the rest of the lawn a good dethatching. You can put down scotts disease ex or bayer advanced fungicide it'll likely take multiple apps to fully remedy the problem. Also lawn fungus is highly adaptive so if you use one product now you need to switch to a different active ingredient next time or it'll get resistant and you are wasting money.@SD I should take pictures but the below image (not my lawn) is exactly what it looks like, so a fairy ring I guess?
Man I'm still recovering from my fungus attack last year and the recent cool. I spent too much time this weekend aerating and removing thatch. Not sure if I'd want this as job lol
Couple things about this the fungus lives in the soil so even if you rip out a half inch it still might be in the profile below that and it still may be present other areas in the lawn so it can easily be brought back into that area. I hate to sound like a salesman for the local sod farms but honestly if you go the removal and replace route you might want to look into a sod. When you look at drought and disease resistance natural centipede and bermuda are the worst, seed is in the middle, sod is the best. You can probably get 10 rolls of tifblair centipede from super sod for less than $100 to cover your issues. If I could do it all over again I would sod my yard vs seed I would also probably go with zoysia over bermuda/centipedeYeah funny thing is we get mushrooms in our yard in circles or right in a line like someone planted a row but it's not in these circles of dead grass. Also, that usually when it's much wetter than it is now.
Anyway I'm contemplating digging up those rings, removing all dead grass, about an inch of so of soil and filling it with good topsoil, then reseed and see what happens. Lot of work but might be about only thing can do ?
It's not that bad if you do the right things. Unfortunately automated sprinklers and 27-0-4 fertilizers exist and caused mega issues
Yeah, it’s like anything else, it’s easier to keep in tip top shape, once you get it flawless! But there’s a lot of work involved and weeds can take over, seemingly overnight! When I had a lawn, keep everything short and it looks great! Until the Bermuda went dormant and it was still 90% green , because of dandelions!??
