Articles tagged with: Pesticide and fertilizer application
A look at this week’s weather forecast prompted this post: http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150504/nws-norman-7day.jpg This time of year I get a number of inquiries on fertilizer application. One of the keys to proper application is the need to water it in. For people who depend on rainfall for this, it’s only natural (and smart) to check the weather […]
I ran across this nice example of the value of winter weed control while out and about this last weekend. I’ll just let the pictures do the talking. If you just glance at the picture above, you might easily think that the problem was in the lower left of the scene. Not so. Everything green […]
Unless we get another freeze, the window for applying pre-emergence crabgrass control has effectively closed as crabgrass is germinating all over Payne County this week. If being crabgrass free is really important to you, you still have one option and that is to look for a product that contains dithiopyr. The most […]
Last week I talked about controlling winter weeds. One of the most common reasons for weed control products to fail or for herbicide damage to occur is improper calibration; we simply don’t know how much product we are really applying. Hopefully, this will guide you through the process. Since we all learn differently, please contact […]
….for the best way to control those pesky spring weeds in your bermudagrass lawn. By pesky, I mean the henbit, chickweed, bromes, annual bluegrass and others that create the need for several early mowings before the turfgrass begins growing. From a botanical standpoint, these aren’t really spring weeds, they are winter annuals. They germinated last fall […]
Hello. The purpose of this blog is to deliver timely horticultural information to the residents of Payne County, Oklahoma and the surrounding area. Although there are certainly exceptions, when someone calls or comes by the Payne County Extension Office with a question, others are soon to follow with the same question. A pesky insect outbreak […]