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Another 108 pounds of Milorganite went down today over the entire 7,000 square feet (for 15.4 pounds per thousand). This year I’m trying to enhance the gardens as well, so I dropped 36 pounds per thousand through them. Please note, if you’re feeding with synthetics, it’s far too early in Pennsylvania to even think about it–wait until mid May for better results. 
Ok. I admit it. I’m a lawn nut. It took me awhile to come to a place in my life where I could fully embrace the title.My neighbors? Well, they diagnosed my condition long before me. I guess it was easy for them, first watching as I killed my old lawn so I could plant new and improved Kentucky Bluegrass. Then shaking their heads as I patrolled the perimeter of my yard looking for weeds (anything that wasn’t KBG). But here I am — ready and willing to embrace my identity as a whacked out yard guy.
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I spent today rewiring my lighting system a bit–the clips seem to release a lot over the winter, so I clipped the wires and directly wired them to the 12 volt line. Also, I noted that my entire southern face lighting burns out yearly. Some investigation shows I probably shouldn’t have that in the 14 volt tap since it’s close to the transformer and not much amperage. Let that be a word to the wise! 
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Temperatures are holding in the high sixties this week, so development in the grass and gardens has been exceedingly fast. Here’s an image from today, post mowing it to remove the dead tips. As always, you can click on any image to embiggen it. You can see the color’s darkened considerably in just a few days, and the grass is already mostly back. Even the new seed is beginning to sprout! The neighbors’ lawns…not so much.
Bonus Shot #1: A blue-blooming Iris Reticulata:
Bonus #2: Purple crocuses!
I just put the Robomower out for the first mow to remove the dead tips from the grass and expose the greener mat underneath. Temperatures will be sixty or above for the rest of the week, so getting some sunlight down to the soil will help wake it up. Not that it needs much help, the green edge is already spreading out from the curb and the gardens. At this rate, by Friday the lawn will be back for the year, a month earlier than last year. In other gardening news, I have plenty of blooming crocuses. I’ll have to take a photo later. I took my soil samples today for UMass Amherst soil testing. I’ll be getting Test C, the standard soil test with organic matter. I had also gotten test E last year, soluble salts, but I don’t expect that to have changed since I don’t use synthetic fertilizers. The soil difference over the last year is pretty amazing. There are very few remaining “sticky bits” of clay, and what remains crumbles pretty easily. I even disturbed a few early worms! Since half a ton of organic matter per thousand square feet went down on the lawn last year (much of that being chopped leaves), I would have expected some change. This was a bit surprising, however. The drying soil is fairly dark, so I’m hopeful that my organic matter tests will come back with good scores this year. Last year I was at 4.6%, or tolerable but a bit low. |
