Customer lawns

Heritage Green Nursing Home, Senior Apartments, and Retirement Home, Stoney Creek
Fertilized with our Turf King fertilizer April 28th
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Heavy frost on lawn

A cool May for the last 2 nights. Sensitive annuals may be damaged by these temperatures.
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Sarritor Dandelion Weed Killer

Got weeds? Organic weed treatment is now available retail.  I was in a retail garden centre yesterday, saw some Sarritor dandelion weed killer by the checkout stand. It was in a refrigerated display. A small 300 gram dispenser/package sells for $38.99. The pamphlet says that should control 750 dandelions.

They recommend that the product be used within one week of purchase.

De-formed dandelion flower stalks?

Found more than several dandelions this morning with what appear to be 8-12 flower stalks fused together. Could't think why this would happen. Then realized this was all in a part of the lawn where I used one of those new dandelion weeders.

My theory is that those types of weeders don't always get the whole dandelion root (which can be 15-18 inches long-see a post from last year.)

Multiple shoots arise from a severed root. Then because there are so many shoots in a small area, the flower stalks somehow fuse together in an abnormal fashion.
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Fiesta weed control

New weed control for Ontario, Fiesta by Neudorff has been posted on the Environmental Registry as of April 22, 2010.
According to the Registry:
"FeHEDTA meets the criteria for Class 11 pesticides which are allowed for controlling pests in lawns and gardens.  Class 11 pesticides include biopesticides and certain lower risk pesticides.  The biopesticides are those designated by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA).  Lower risk pesticides have characteristics such as low toxicity to humans, minimal impact to the environment and act in a non-toxic way in controlling intended pests."
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Comment from someone who tried a similar product in Northern Illinois
Jon W. Says: 
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:46 pm

Five days ago, I applied ferric HEDTA (aka Iron-X when bought from Gardens Alive) to a small area of my lawn. I bought one 16oz bottle of the concentrate and used 2/3 of it to make 2 gallons of solution per the product instructions. I applied this to about 300 square feet (28 square meters) of a northern Illinois lawn which hasn’t has a bit of fertilizer or herbicide applied to it in 27 years. Very few parts of the lawn are >50% grass and a few are almost 100% broadleaf weeds and clover. (I don’t consider clover a weed.) I intentionally applied the product at varying rates from about 0.5 to 1.5 gal/100 sq ft to judge its effectiveness. It was applied immediately after mowing and three days before a 1.4 inch (36mm) rain.

Even at lower application rates, it did a good job of knocking down dandelions, which seems to be the species most affected by this product. It only killed plantain at the higher end of its application rate. Ground ivy (creeping charlie), thistle, violets, catnip and garlic mustard seemed to be moderately affected by it. It killed the few garlic mustard plants I sprayed, but those were along a fence and may have received a higher dose. White clover seemed to be least affected by it. I couldn’t discern any damage to grass. Flowering and seed release in surviving dandelions was noticeably lower than in the rest of the lawn.

Even though the product didn’t completely eliminate weeds, it reduced them enough to make me decide to treat the entire lawn with it.

Product MSDS at http://msds.plantprod.com/msds/1035

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Crabgrass sprouting in driveway- Oakville

Crabgrass Seedlings have sprouted in the warm environs of an asphalt driveway. May start to sprout in sunny open areas soon.

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Giant Hogweed sprouting

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Fairy ring

 

It seems that Fairy Ring is much more noticeable at this time of year. The Fairly Ring fungus must release early nutrients to the soil. The turf within that zone is able to green up much quicker than the other parts of the lawn.

In fact I saw a lawn while driving where the grass that was growing was almost 12 inches high and very green and vigorous.

Fairy rings usually become less noticeable if and when the rest of the lawn is fertilized. The rest of the lawn will turn green also. Then the "ring" all but disappears.

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