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Originally Posted by fatboy621
I won't argue the " ford vs Chevy" with you. I use nothing but Scotts products, could be the fact I work for them and get a discount and product for free sometimes. I do know that old seed will not germinate as well as fresh. Some times we get out dated seed for free and I have had good results with it I just put it on heavy. My lawn is in very good shape, but still fight crab grass along the neighbors property lines. I have lots of big oak and hickory trees that suck a lot of moisture out of the ground. Under the hickory trees the grass is kind of thin no matter what I try. Just keep at it and you will win the fight with the crab grass. A good pre-emergent need spring will help a lot it just won't kill any crab grass that is all ready established.
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yeah employee discount is always good.... as I found out with machinery sometimes "free" is too expensive, ha ha.... what would you suggest as a "good pre emergent" being that you work for who you do? Does my region of the country matter for what I put down and when? I'm in NE IL, about an hour south of Chicago. I know it does for other aspects of application and growing..... I have gone to the FS co op in past years and gotten some of their deluxe grass seed mix and had decent luck....
I'm done throwing seed down now til after leaf harvest (haven't even started that yet) but I was thinking 1 more overseed application over the whole yard after that....
and I have plenty left in that bottle of quinchlorac for post emerge next season should I need it... need to apply it sooner than I did this year though for sure... I didn't have it or know what to use that early in the season this year.
Being that you are an "inside guy", what is in scotts "Halts" that they push as a pre emergent?
usually I apply plenty of nitrogen based fertilizer each year, this year I didn't because we were so dry/ I was afraid of it acting like a burn down with our lack of rain.... so I instead attacked the "weed" side, instead of the "feed" side.... every few years I'll put down this stuff I have that is fortified with iron as well as nitrogen.... every year besides this one, I have been putting down a couple of applications of the local big box farm stores private label "equivalent" to Turf Builder throughout the summer ...… and my grass goes crazy shortly afterwards.
I haven't had any soil tests done but I figured Id better between the drought and residual left from past years, give the lawn a break this season that is just ending. the only "fertilizer" I have used this season (yes this is a Scotts product) is a healthy dose of their starter fertilizer, a broad application a couple weeks ago on the whole yard and this morning a reinforcing shot of it on the freshly planted bare spots.... and it is POURING out now about 12 hours later.....