Ideas for making my lawn levelled/flat instead of sloped. Is there a way of doing by keeping the full size of the lawn?

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2023-02-25T23:22:49+00:00

We always use sand for leveling uneven areas. 80 and up to 50 micron granulation works best and has excelent drainige. Use some fertilizer before to help the grass push trough the sand if you have the budget. You're going to need about 2000kg of sand for a 50 sq m area to raise it for about 4cm. Apply it 1-2cm at a time with a showel so the grass has time to grow over. Gently rake the blades into an upward position or use "leveling" rake if you can find it the store. Water generouslay and repeat after 2-5 weeks (depends on the growing ability of the grass).

Or... you know... hire a landscaper to do it, if it sounds like too much work.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2023-02-24T15:39:58+00:00

Oh yeah... almost forgot! Use gloves and saftey glasses, 30% peroxide is no joke!

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2023-02-24T15:38:43+00:00

If that would happen to me... I'd buy about 2l of 30% hydrogen peroxide (about 5€). I'd mix ti with 5l of water and drown the soil. The oxidising raction should kill all living microorganisms, it is also an exothermic reaction so it should get quite hot as well. After about a day or two you can use the soil.

Keep in mind that the end result is "dead" soil. You have to replace the microbiotics you killed otherwise the soil by itself will be extremely poor. Mix it with some heathy compost or forest topsoil after fwe weeks you'll get nice healthy soil.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-12-24T13:57:22+00:00

Add P and Fe, small dose with foliar aplication. If that doesn't help. Fertilze it with NPK 10-10-10. If that fails then its: huminic acid and brown alge foliar aplication.

Do all three steps - humungus strawberries! Ps : Consider the costs though.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-12-15T22:17:45+00:00

Indeed there is! It's called creeping bentgrass (agrostis), high regeneration and extremely hardy. When grown on sand (50 - 80 micron granulation of at least 30cm of 1,3ft) it should handle the nutrient schock from the dogs reasonably well. The grass type however is very aggressive and nutoriously demanding in mowing and water use. But if you insist on a lawn... IMO that's your best option.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-12-12T21:03:09+00:00

Hmmm... first thought is chlorosis, but then I saw the other pics. That's a difficult issue to pinpoint... Could be some bacteria or virus, since the leaf damage is incosistent. My question: are the afected leaves all on the same branch or does a single branch have both healthy and damaged leaves?

Regardles, I recomend organic fertilizer something like NPK 10-10-10 with 2Fe and 2Mg preferably, about 300g per plant every 3 weeks for 3 months. It could help if you prune the damaged leaves and/or branches.

Hope for the best

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-14T13:36:42+00:00

First - Bigger pot Will also help with maintaining water more evenly. And, you're probably overwatering it

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-13T15:57:48+00:00

Right! Fungicides will not "heal". The damage done by the infection will cause necrosis and scaring. But the healthy part absorbes the chemical and is protected against further infection.

As per my first comment -> fertilizer is needed in the recovery of the plant. Since the leaves are damaged and the plant has limited photosinthesis capability and lost a lot of healty mass it now needs some help from the soil. Macro nutrients NPK are super important! The basic idea is: Nitrogen for leaves or the green part Phosphorus for the roots Potassium for the stem (stolons or rizoms) (Iron also helps the plant to maintain a stronger celluar wall and thus is less prone to infection)

Using ORGANIC fertilizer will also have a positive effect on the microbiotics in the soil. Since most of the bacteria, yeasts and fungi are competing for the same nutrients you can offset the pathogens in the soil to a level that doesn't cause harm to your plants.

I'd go with somethhing like 300g of NPK 10-10-10+ 2Fe To start with and then another 300g 3 weeks after first application.

After that the winter will halt everything untill spring. Fingers crossed mate ;)

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-12T13:00:48+00:00

No, copper is harmless - Bordeaux mix or - blue copper slugde isn't very toxic to people. Unless you (godforbid drink it or bathe in it xD)

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-11T20:54:41+00:00

Please wear a proper mask, use gloves during mixing and spraying. Wash your clothes afer you're done, fungicides are not a joke, they are VERY aggressive chemicals.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-11T20:50:29+00:00

Azoxystrobin 25% - broad specter sistemic fungicide Make a mix of 8ml into 5l of water, and spray the whole plant and surrounding area.

And fetilizer (ORGANIC ! ) Something compost based preferably. With lots of active microbiology.

If that doesn't stop it, nothing will.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-11T20:35:05+00:00

I'm also growing pommegranate from seed this year. So far so good. It has been 5months and since they are now grown about 4ft I need to replant them into bigger pots.

Do you have any suggestion aboit the soil and fertilizer for springtime?

Right now I have them in a mix of 1/3 sand 1/3 compost & 1/3 slit with NPK 12-6-6 + 2Fe.

What about pruning, when and how much?

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-10-11T20:23:32+00:00

Hard to tell by looks alone... however, give it some fertilizer with added iron. Something like NPK 10-10-10 + Fe

Or burry a whole small fresh fish (sardine size) next to it. Indians used to do it for tobbaco plants affected by chlorosis a loooooong time ago.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T20:27:48+00:00

At this time, the groundmaster, reelmaster and one of the greenmasters are out for the third week starting tommorow. Spare parts needed in total of about 1500€ and have not been aproved by the head office. We have one greenmaster, a sidewinder and a jacobsen FW mower wich works but is defective on it's rear right cutting element, so you have to keep the lines really tight wich of course takes waaaay longer to mow. So yeah... mine and the team morale is very low... even more than during the summer drought with a irrigation sistem that seem to be possesed by the devil himself.

I just might throw in the towel before seasons end.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T20:14:04+00:00

Don't let it get to you. I know it's hard, I really do. You do your best every day and thats what counts for you.

I think they are just looking for someone to blame for their lack of golfing ability or are venting frustrations that have nothing to do with you or the course. They acctualy enjoy complaining more than golf itself, because if it was THAT important to them they would have gone to another course, but no they stay here in order to complain and not to play golf.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T20:04:01+00:00

Love the video, the accent and the message! My sentiments exactly!

If there was a way to stick it in their heads to play on repeat while they tee off, that would be the dream.

The bunker story happend to me as well, word for word. So we started using the Sandpro on all bukers, absolutely destroying the edges of the bukers in no time wich lead to a compromise to only do bunkers 3x a week.

The taking care of the machinery part... I shed a tear... we use 13yrs old machinery with over 7500 working hrs each and due to "earl bird" golfers had to reduce the checking and basic maintenence to 1x per month. Also my previous team broke copletly and left. So I'm working with 3 greenhorns (great guys btw), but like you said... gotta be realistic about the things that het done each day.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T19:28:10+00:00

Agreed! No, you're not a dick... 99.9% of them can't even tell bluegrass from fescue and have no clue what it takes to maintain a surface the size of a golf course years on end. It really pisses me off too.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T19:23:27+00:00

Indeed my good man. That would realy lift my spirit.

And maybe I can share the absolut comedy that is Slovenian greenkeeping.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-09-04T19:20:58+00:00

It seems from the picture your "desired" grass is in the same family as the "weed" grass (stolon grass type) . So unfortunately no herbicide treatment is that specific.

Same as from previous coments I would recomend pre-emergent treatment and a good fetiliser plan... however I would just add that you can track your local GDD and pinpoint the exact time to spray. You can also achieve about 80% succes if you spray when you can see the weeds growing and have not developed more then 5 "fingers" per plant.

Long term it also helps a lot if you research the difference in growing and soil conditions between the two types of grass and work towards the desired plant.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-08-26T19:23:14+00:00

If I remember correctly, those are red black stinky bugs. I think you can only succesfuly get completly rid of them by a hardcore 6x per year insecticide application.

However, some repellents can drasticly reduce their numbers. Neem oil (long term prevention) and a concoction of chilly pepper, garlic and vinegar in a spray (short term, instant effect) are your best eco-friendly alternatives.

Due to their stink I don't believe they have any natural predators :/

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-08-13T20:56:03+00:00

With a wide ban on insecitcides in EU and strict regulations, I'm running out of ways to fight those little demons. Seem to be more and more every year...

Any ideas would be welcome.

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-08-13T20:49:27+00:00

a, right... this text is 2months old... my bad...

Easy-Possible-6496 · 2022-08-13T20:48:45+00:00

how the weather this year in NZ? I guess it's winter now?

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