Posted on 04/29/2023 7:01:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I would go with the Sun & Shade mix - make sure there’s some Bluegrass in there; I didn’t look at the formulation. When one grass fails, the others fill in and things still look relatively nice.
My favorite grass mix to use, and one I recommend to everyone because you can grow it nearly anywhere is ‘Madison Parks.’ If you can find a mix close to this, locally, you will have success!
50% Kentucky Bluegrass
25% Perennial Ryegrass
25% Creeping Red Fescue
https://lacrosseseed.com/la-crosse-seed-turf/turf/turf-mixes/madison-parks-turfgrass-mix-prod3302
Hot, sweaty, lawn-mowing people, too! :)
Went to town to get the little car I bought from the ex transferred to my name and saw a sign on the side of the road for a market that sells bulk foods. Went to check it out and the further I drove, the more I suspected it to be run by Amish, a large clan of whom just recently moved to the area. Sure enough, a big live edge rough sawn building with round timber frame inside and metal roof. Amish guy hauling butt across the field on a stout horse.
Didn’t have the place filled up yet but they plan to have produce too. They did have 50lb sacks of staple foods and also 1 and 5 lb bags of the same. Flour, Hard Red Winter Wheat kernels. White, brown and raw sugar. Some spices but not many yet. Had some seedlings of maters, greens and brassicas. If I’d have had cash on me, I would have paid $2.50 for a 12+ inch mater plant even though I have 8 seedlings myself. Didn’t recognize the variety but it looked as healthy as one of their horses.
I’ve been missing Shetler’s down in Douglas county that had bulk foods and was run by Mennonites.
To get to this market, I end up going by a farm that has a state certified processing facility and sells grass fed beef and also pork and chicken raised on the farm.
I’m going to start making bi-weekly trips out that way for real food shopping.
What a find! Lucky you!
I wish I had more opportunities like that by me - I will look harder. Already raise our own beef and trade with the neighbor for pork. Beau just got me a nice 22# turkey last week, too! Chickens by this time next year.
We have a VERY small Farmer’s Market that I need to start attending - just for the principle of it!
I’m hitting a few Garden Centers this week. It’s been a VERY slow start to our Spring Season., So HAPPY to not be working at the Garden Center anymore. Spring there was both a curse and a blessing. ;)
Over the weekend I moved most of my brassicas from their cozy little starter cells in the greenhouse and stuck them in the dirt out in the cold cruel world. I've still got half a dozen or so in starter cells on the ground in the hoop house that need to be set out. I spent a bit of time setting up soaker hose on the sweet corn patch and along the cucumber fences. Also got an irrigation line run to the front where I planted the chestnut trees awhile back. I didn't go to the trouble of setting up dripline though. Just a mainline hung on the fence terminated with a stop valve and garden hose fitting. Dragging a bit of hose once a week is a lot less trouble than picking up/resetting dripline every time I need to mow the grass.
Two more weeks until it's safe to put things that are intolerant to cold outdoors. My tomato plants have all been moved from starter cells to gallon pots so they are ready when it's time. Eggplant and peppers are still in starter cells and will stay there until they move outdoors permanently.
Due to wet springtime soil conditions I've gone four years without planting my sunflower field, but it's going to happen this time. Pops and I mounted the moldboard plow on Mr. Clarence and turned the soil on Saturday. That wound up being a good move because yesterday was cold and windy. Getting the plowing done wouldn't have been any fun at all in those conditions.
Up until a few years ago, I had never seen a Baltimore Oriole for at least 30 years. Within a couple weeks of setting up an Oriole feeder, I had a couple coming to eat.
Flash forward, since Orioles migrate to South America for the winter, they return every spring. So, I have been setting up my Oriole feeder during the last week of April.
For the past five years, here has been their arrival dates:
June 19, 2016 (when I first set up the feeder)
May 2, 2018
May 2, 2019
May 2, 2020
May 3, 2022
And now today, May 1, 2023
I find that to be an incredible sense of timing in nature…………..God is wonderful!
Thanks but I would like to just use Perennial, for cost of not replanting more each year.
May go with the Scotts Grass Seed Perennial Ryegrass Mix
FWIW, those three types of grasses ARE perennials; it’s just a good combo of types, mainly for durability. :)
Check the seed % on the Scott’s package. It should be more than one seed variety.
I know! And that’s not the same birds going back and forth every year! How do they do it? Amazing for something that has a brain the size of a pea. ;)
There’s Augie - tearing up the turf! :)
Very helpful!
Anybody besides me canning pickled ramps right now? They’re beautiful this year.
Ah, but for gardening the golf carts rule! We use ours almost daily, and have a small cart that we pull with it. Tools and shovels in the golf bag holders. Saves a ton of toting and carrying. Its quiet and easy to get in and out of. Turf tires are kind to the lawn. A tank of gas lasts forever, unless we take trips to the woods. Youngsters in the family love it.
Yes, it is. Fescue and Blue grass I think. One Step Complete Tall Fescue 5lb. ($10.00) Grass Seed + Mulch + Fertilizer for Patch Repair was also an option. But what if I just let it all go to seed, then cut the tops and spread top soil and rake and water?
Anyone have experience growing ginger? I am in Michigan.
“But what if I just let it all go to seed, then cut the tops and spread top soil and rake and water?”
You know, I don’t have an answer for that! I was in the business of selling you seed - not making my job obsolete, LOL! :)
I mean, really - it’s just GRASS - it grows everywhere - and usually where you DON’T want it!
Can you be of any help, Guys?
Favorite Grass-Related Customer Story. Had a guy come in with a handful of ‘weird’ grass from his lawn. Yes. People would bring me handfuls of grass or weeds and want me to ID it for them! It took me a few days to solve the mystery, but when he came back to the store a few days later, I asked him: ‘Do you Golf?’
He admitted as much, though he said his handicap was something that wasn’t all that good, LOL!
So, what was happening is that he’d be on the Golf Course, then would walk around his yard with his cleats still on and had managed to spread the grass from the putting green (Creeping Bentgrass) onto his home lawn.
Man, I was a Rock Star that day!
Plants do tend to propagate themselves, especially grass.
Another option is a few square bails of fairly seedy mixed grass hay. Peel off cards and lay them out like sod. As the seeds fall off, they drop down. The cards create a mulch to keep the soil moist and eventually compost in place. It will look ugly for a while.
There are farmers who fix up bare/thin spots by rolling out round bales of hay. Same concept.
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