Texas Gardening: Part of my lawn is really green, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Oh, thank you for the compliments! They are beautiful on their own but I am the one that has to maintain them. Control is what I need to get over the cosmos! lol I do try to deadhead them but there are just SO many. I'm usually so weak when they start to bloom too and just can't make myself pull them up! I have the next 3 days tho to tackle my beds, and that's my plan.

Ceejay, we did the test about 4 years ago thru A&M, I believe. I'll have to dig it out and see what it said. Since then I've bought little soil test kits and everything comes back with above the 7 range, which is in the high level. I'll do another one with soil from around the trees this weekend too.

We listen to Howard Garrett too and he's always ranted about Ironite so we've never used any iron on the entire lawn. We did however cheat and use Scott's but never a weed-n-feed! We love pulling weeds the natural way.

Last year, or before, I got out there and pulled all the grass back and really exposed the root flares and we keep the grass back. I've done the sick tree treatment too. I heard Howard talking last week about red oaks crossing with pin oaks and he said that one characteristic is the limbs grow down and we don't seem to have that. Many red oaks in our area are yellow most of the season like ours too but don't have this problem. Look at this picture taken in early Oct. '07. These limbs are on the same tree!