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Up your pricing for the smoky link snack meal then. You're welcome
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No. If you lay sod for somebody, and they do not water it enough, it is on them. Very different field.
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The builder probably used what is called "standard" sod. Lower quality, cheaper, and likely grown in a clay like environment. As well as using crap top soil, if he used any at all. One should never allow a builder to do this type of work.
Either chunk out the bad pieces, fill with good soil, seed, and a starter fertilizer, or get a few rolls of sod to relay.
Too much water is just as bad, if not worse, than too little.
The rule of thumb with lawns, new or old, is to give them the water that they need, but never more. If the seams did not separate, then your new lawn didn't dry out due to lack of water. I'll bet there is construction debris not even an inch under the sod.
Top dress and overseed in early fall, or wait until next spring. If you wait until spring, aerate first.
And get some food to it at 4-6 week intervals. Summer fert until August, and fall fert after.
Also, if you can't water regularly because of work or distance, it's pretty easy to buy timers for hoses and sprinklers, some as cheap as $25, that you can set to go on automatically, at specific times, for specific durations.
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I'm about 6 weeks in, the majority of the sod is established well and looks good/is growing well. Just parts of the edges and my back corners have some dead sod, but some green grass is starting to poke through. As far as fertilizer, what would you recommend? Everywhere I read on the internet seems recommend something different. Some sites recommend a 12-12-12 fertilizer or something balanced and others I've read recommend something heavy in nitrogen with a slow release, so like 29-0-5. I think the balanced fertilizer would be best but all of them tend to be a fast release and I worry that it will burn up the lawn. What are your thoughts?
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Organic fertilizers are all slow release, and can be applied and not worried about. For immediate results, organic won't do it. Use a more more balanced fert, and be sure to water it in. You want both nitrogen and phosporous content. The nitrogen helps blade growth and chlorophyll production. Phosphorous helps root growth. The potassium is more for fall, overall lawn health, and cold and heat resistance.
NPK = nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium
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Appreciate it! First time home buyer so I really had no idea how to care for it and treat it when I first started.
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Use a low nitrogen, high phosphorous starter fertilizer on the sections you replace, and a more balanced for the rest. Apply the starter fert directly to the soil before seeding or resodding.
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If I was the builder I would take care of it one time. I get what you posted.
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Which one time do you choose to take care of then? Because there won't be just one.
In this instance, it sounds like the bank made the decision to avoid escrow, so they should foot the bill.
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Did you guys know Xuder clones children for a living.... idk how he has so much time to be an expert on lawn care....
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I'm going to go with this fertilizer this weekend. I like the nutrient content (24-25-4), should provide solid root growth and green up my yard and keep it green for awhile. If I get around to it, I'll post pics in a few weeks since I know you will all be sitting on the edge of your seats waiting to see how it turns out.
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Sacrifice a virgin during the summer solstice, collect her blood and sprinkle it liberally on your lawn. Bury the corpse and plant a rose bush over it.
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You've been spending too much time with Ares. :yep:
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Planting the roses over the body sounds similar to a Hitchcock thriller, not to be mistaken for a Ken Hitchcock thriller.
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No roses needed... that's where the red fern grows.
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You humans and your slavery to useless but high-maintenance foliage confuses me.
You humans and your slavery to useless but high-maintenance foliage confuses me.
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You don't want to be "that guy" with the shitty lawn on the block!