How about Houston area st. Augustine? My backyard looks pretty bad but i know that is because i missed my application in the fall.
Here's Neil Sperry's recommendations...Gordon McKernan said:
How about Houston area st. Augustine? My backyard looks pretty bad but i know that is because i missed my application in the fall.
So, thinking out loud, here in New Braunfels, roughly 250 miles south of I-20, I need to put pre-emergent out the end of second week of February.......Gary79Ag said:Here's Neil Sperry's recommendations...Gordon McKernan said:
How about Houston area st. Augustine? My backyard looks pretty bad but i know that is because i missed my application in the fall.
What Is the Right Time for Pre-emergents?
Yep, about the 15th of Feb...AgCWby90CS48 said:So, thinking out loud, here in New Braunfels, roughly 250 miles south of I-20, I need to put pre-emergent out the end of second week of February.......Gary79Ag said:Here's Neil Sperry's recommendations...Gordon McKernan said:
How about Houston area st. Augustine? My backyard looks pretty bad but i know that is because i missed my application in the fall.
What Is the Right Time for Pre-emergents?
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EARLY GREEN UP TRICKS OF THE TRADE
The best kept secret in lawn fertilization, one that was even kept from me up until two years ago, is the use of a basic 3-1-2 ratio fertilizer in late February/early March. You may recognize the ratio from the GardenLine fertilization schedule mentioned earlier. Only this 3-1-2 is a basic immediate release fertilization. And the best fertilizer I've found for this very purpose is a 15-5-10. But remember it should not have the words slow-release or controlled-release on the bag.
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PRE-EMERGENT HERBICIDES
I'm not sure whether to talk first about the "weeds to come" or the weeds that may already be up in the lawn. Since most of the weeds that are up now will burn away in the heat of a Texas summer, lets focus first on keeping late spring and summer weeds from being a problem. This too is done during the end of February through the first of March with Pre- Emergent Herbicides. More specifically we are looking for the pre- emergent herbicides to control the grassy weeds that are such a problem from May through July. Weeds like Crabgrass, Goosegrass, Dallisgrass and Johnsongrass.
The only truly effective way to control these weeds is to prevent them from being that problem. Which, if you think about it, means that if you do the pre-emergent right, you'll never need to use a weed-and-feed. And that is the beauty of the pre-emergent herbicide. But it is critical that these pre-emergent applications are put out before the end of March. The best pre-emergent herbicides for February application are Barricade, Pendemethlin, Betasan, Treflan, Surflan. Green Light makes three pre-emergent herbicides for this purpose. One is known as First Down and the other is Amaze.
The third bag from Green Light simply says Betasan. One of the newest pre-emergent herbicides comes in a fertilizer formulation from Fertilome. It is called Fertilome's All Seasons with Barricade. Nitro Phos also has a "barricade only" product this year. This actually kills the proverbial two birds with one stone, in that the Barricade fertilizer's carrier is a 3-1-2 fertilizer, lumped in with the herbicide (refer to early green up section). Finally, the Pendemethlin herbicide comes marketed as Pendulum. In most cases, you will probably need to put out one of these pre-emergent herbicides once again in May, just to be on the safe side and prevent any new weed seeds from germinating June through August.
Ulrich said:
Horse herb. I have acres of horse herb. Halp.
FincAg said:
It's that time again
Time Is Now to Prevent Winter Weeds!
bobinator said:
Off topic, but what time of year do y'all aerate if needed?
We bought a house in April (in B/CS) and were so busy moving in and everything that I basically haven't done anything to the yard yet but we've got a soil compaction problem so I was thinking about aerating but wasn't sure what time of year is the best.
FincAg said:
It's that time again
Time Is Now to Prevent Winter Weeds!
Randy Lemmon is a radio/media personality with a degree in journalism who's monetized his hobby. He makes blanket recommendations for his sponsored brands of fertilizer and weed control, while rarely mentioning the idea of testing your soil to see what it actually needs.Sweet Kitten Feet said:
In BCS area when should this go down. Neil Sperry was pretty adamant yesterday that this weekend was the latest for ALL of Texas except extreme south. Randy Lemmon says Late October to early November. What are y'all doing and has it been successful?
Which is exactly why I asked y'all what y'all had been doing and what was successful. There seem to be two legions of people on here, the Sperrians and Lemmonites. I've been following Niel, but putting the pre-emerg down just seems so early with how hot it still is so I was curious if others had historically done it at this time and been successful. This is my first year in this house, and first year taking care of st augustine so still learning and asking others for advice.Prince_Ahmed said:Randy Lemmon is a radio/media personality with a degree in journalism who's monetized his hobby. He makes blanket recommendations for his sponsored brands of fertilizer and weed control, while rarely mentioning the idea of testing your soil to see what it actually needs.Sweet Kitten Feet said:
In BCS area when should this go down. Neil Sperry was pretty adamant yesterday that this weekend was the latest for ALL of Texas except extreme south. Randy Lemmon says Late October to early November. What are y'all doing and has it been successful?
Neil Sperry has a master's degree in horticulture and has been involved in education and research for almost 50 years. He rarely makes a recommendation without sending you to get soil tested, or to see a certified arborist or master gardener for a recommendation on your specific application.
That's what I do and it works! He lives in McKinney and I'm just 35 minutes north of him in Sherman...I follow him religiously...gigem70 said:
Do whatever Neil says. I believe he knows how hot it has been.
FincAg said:
It's that time again
Time Is Now to Prevent Winter Weeds!
from what I've read, since the first cold front has not come, you can still do it.Duncan Idaho said:FincAg said:
It's that time again
Time Is Now to Prevent Winter Weeds!
So if I just got back in town and haven't done this...am I screwed?