Return to the Ask The Yard Doctor Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
severe soil correction question
| | |
Posted by bethm78 8 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 8, 06 at 0:28
| We bought a house on 1/2 acre. The previous owners did not want to deal with a lawn so they paved the whole lot. We have torn out all the old asphault (18 years old), brought in 4 truckloads of dirt and 2 loads of compost, aerated mixed and raked. We seeded 3800 sq ft with 25lbs of bermuda seed on July 13(with 2 bags of lawn starter sewn in)and the battle began. The temps were high and the seed was germinating in 3 days so I was relieved. Since then some spots grow, some don't, some are yellow some are not. Some spots died (by what looked like stress or fungus). Some of the grass is still only 1/2 inch tall While other spots are fine. I have repeated lawn starter application (recommended by the local nursery). Nothing has worked. I had a ph test performed (with soil taken from various spots where the grass is still short)and was around 8.5. I have applied ironate and liquid soil acidifier +iron. When the grass goes dormant can I throw on acidfied compost without burning? Or what should I do? Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Beth |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: severe soil correction question
| | |
| Dear Beth Thank you very much for your inquiry. I know this about bermudagrass; it loves heat, sunshine, fertilizer, and water. Keep giving it all of these as long as you can. If sunshine is not present you are going to struggle. Ph should not be a worry right now. On areas where you are concerned, sprig bermudagrass (short pieces of the turf you can get from a nursery. Just buy sod and tear it apart. Take a shovel or tree spade, and poke a hole, drop the sprig and close the hole with your foot. You will like the results if you remember what bermudagrass likes. Again, thanks for the question and let me know if you have more. Respectfully Trey Rogers
The Yard Doctor |
RE: severe soil correction question
| | |
| Dear Beth Thank you very much for your inquiry. I know this about bermudagrass; it loves heat, sunshine, fertilizer, and water. Keep giving it all of these as long as you can. If sunshine is not present you are going to struggle. Ph should not be a worry right now. On areas where you are concerned, sprig bermudagrass (short pieces of the turf you can get from a nursery. Just buy sod and tear it apart. Take a shovel or tree spade, and poke a hole, drop the sprig and close the hole with your foot. You will like the results if you remember what bermudagrass likes. Again, thanks for the question and let me know if you have more. Respectfully Trey Rogers
The Yard Doctor |
RE: severe soil correction question
| | |
i am electrical engineer and now i am facing problems with higher soil resitivity , average value is between
100 ohms to 2000 ohms . and we naturally provide 4 earth electrodes and 4 earth pit to connect transformer neutral to ground- the highet fault current has to dissipate in the ground less than 50 milli seconds. since is soil is vary bad we are using compund to bring the resistitivity level cosiderably low but i need more answer for this from your organisation
regards |
|
|
|
|
