NOVEMBER CLEAN UP

Sorry I missed you last month! I could tell you what’s going on, but it would sound like whining and don’t like to do that. I have more to be thankful for than I deserve and I’ll leave it at that. My son is having about as much fun as a 25 year old can be having right now. He is working for the Kansas City Royals and the Chiefs at the same time. He is working very hard, but knows the value of his hard work and is making a name for himself in the KC turf market. We couldn’t be any more proud of him.

Finally got some much needed rain. Seed needs two things to germinate…Soil temperatures and water! If you don’t water every day for two weeks, you won’t get seed to germinate. It’s really that simple. It’s been brutally dry. Don’t stop watering your evergreens too. There will be a bunch of dead ones next spring as they will go into dormancy without the right amount of water in the root system!

Lack of water and too many leaves are now our problems. Speaking of leaves…we have some business to address on our cool season lawns:

*Keep the leaves either mowed up or blown to the curb to prevent smothering the grass. Those “pockets” of leaves can cause dead spots next spring!

*Apply your last fertilizer and spot spray with “ester” formula herbicides (if it’s not too windy).

*Leave Zoysia at 3”, but mow cool season grass down to 2 ½”. The one time of year you want fescue grass shorter than zoysia.

*Winterize your lawn mower in about 2-4 weeks.

*Keep watering until Mid-November if possible!

Short and sweet this month. I will hope you and yours have a safe Thanksgiving and Christmas season. I will look forward to enlightening you all again next year! God bless and I’ll ask for prayers for my mom (Mary Ellen), my brother Steve and nephew Jake. Strokes and old age can be very challenging. Remember folks…it’s only grass!