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  • candcallen

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    No not dollars, not that there is anything wrong with that, but actual rain. The wet stuff.

    I waterd part of the yard last night and threatened to wash the truck by getting out the bucket and chamois.

    Alakazam...rain this morning in Little Elm.

    I had to try something cause the last few days it spit on every place around me but me. I was so optimistic by the storms I put off watering. That was my big mistake. HUGE error.

    So tonight I'm going to water a small patch of grass and actually wet the truck. Maybe I'll get a good soaker the next couple days.
     

    Bozz10mm

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    Years ago when we needed rain, I would just go camping. Now days it's grass watering and car washing. Seems to work more often than not.
     

    candcallen

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    I forgot to put down a pre emergent this year so I fought weeds and crabgrass that caused a slow start to the Bermuda and required lots of round up. That in turn is requiring extra water for the grass to thicken in and the ground to stay hydrated around the house. Areas with thick grass upto the foundation stay much more hydrated and dont crack and dry and shrink.

    This winter I think I'll try a ryegrass and over seed Bermuda in the spring after the weed feed and pre emergent. Maybe I can avoid the clover and weeds altogether next year.

    Water. The stuff green dreams are made of.
     

    busykngt

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    Here’s the pre-emergent I’ve had good luck with. Snapshot 2.5 TG one application @ mid-February. As small as my yard is, I get two years out of one bag - which makes its use a bit more economical.
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    candcallen

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    Hay, thanks! I'll try it in February.

    It rained last night and this morning. That keeps me from watering for a good week
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    Once the grass chokes out the crab grass I can get by one a couple waters a month as long as it rains every now and then.
     

    busykngt

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    In McKinney, we finally got some of that wet stuff yesterday. Most of it had somehow managed to go around us. We skirted the edge of several good sized cells but had remained dry at my location, until yesterday. I view rain in the same way, it saves me from having to water. I’m in an HOA () subdivision environment so keeping the lawn up to some minimum level is more-or-less a necessity. At least, I use the HOA as the excuse - otherwise, it’d be “the wife”.
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    busykngt

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    Hay, thanks! I'll try it in February.
    I just use one of those cheap plastic, hand-cranked spreaders and it does well enough for me. Later in the Spring (right before a rain), I’ll hit the yard with an application of a fertilizer or a “weed & feed” type thing. I like the relatively new Bayer 3-n-1 but that stuff is expensive - but it does do a great job. I can get by with this stuff because again, I’ve got a relatively small yard. I used one of those chemical lawn maintenance companies for a few years but they just kept going up ($$) every year so eventually I fell upon my current technique. Doesn’t require a lot of effort on my part and is a lot more economical overall. Being cheap AND lazy sometimes pays off!
     
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    BRD@66

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    To the OP query - we simply left the house to attend a doctor's appointment today. When we got home, we'd received 1.5" of rain. Kind of got the pickup washed on Parmer in eastern Cedar Park. Nice!
     

    gdr_11

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    We got 7" from this last set of storms. My acreage is 100% sand but even then we had water about 6" deep but areas slightly downhill from us had 2' or more of water and the roadside culverts flowed over the main county roads. But, the idiots keep permitting more housing on the higher ground which is flooding homes below. The city wants tax dollars at the expense of destroying the historic flood control provided by pasture land. Last year I told the city that this would probably be the first year that the main road through the west side of town would flood and it would only get worse with each new home uphill and the City Engineer just laughed. Well, there were a good 10" to 12" flowing like a river over that road for several hours; felt sorry for the folks whose homes took on water there. I spoke to a guy who has lived there 17 years and said he never had problems until two years ago. I suggested he sell now because it was only going to get worse.
     

    cvgunman

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    I just use one of those cheap plastic, hand-cranked spreaders and it does well enough for me. Later in the Spring (right before a rain), I’ll hit the yard with an application of a fertilizer or a “weed & feed” type thing. I like the relatively new Bayer 3-n-1 but that stuff is expensive - but it does do a great job. I can get by with this stuff because again, I’ve got a relatively small yard. I used one of those chemical lawn maintenance companies for a few years but they just kept going up ($$) every year so eventually I fell upon my current technique. Doesn’t require a lot of effort on my part and is a lot more economical overall. Being cheap AND lazy sometimes pays off!
    I use the same hand crank, but I've been going to the loacl feed store and buying ammonia sulfate (nitrogen 21%). The soil up here doesn't need the phosphorus and potassium. At $11.92/50lb versus the $40-50.00 for the weed and feed. In the early spring a quick spray for the poa annua (bluegrass). I agree with getting a good pre emergent down as the high nitrogen is what the weeds like! Finally got the grass (for the most part) deep, dark green and lush. Went from being the worst lawn on the block to all the neighbors wanting to know what I did.

    CC-get to dancing...please :) We need some rain. The last time I simply thought about washing the truck and bam...rain. I went full on and got it washed yesterday (first time in 6+ months) and nothing!
     

    oldag

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    Back in the dark ages, my father always tended toward balanced lawn fertilizers as opposed to high nitrogen. And it always produced good results.

    These days, the balanced can be harder to find. Everything has high nitrogen and no phosphorus.
     
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