Lawn Error, A Big One
At 7 AM this morning several people were buzzing around our yard doing the lawn maintenance thing. We didn't give it a second thought as our service has been GREAT from Choice Maintenence.
Turns out the guys zipping around the yard were here mistakenly from a different unknown company and butchered our lawn. The scalped the hell out of it, piled grass all over the decorative stone and left the sidewalk and driveway in a disastrous state. It is a heartbreaker, trust me. Our regular guy Tate from Choice Maintenence is coming tomorrow to help straighten us out. This happened to a friend of our over on St Andrews and it cost him about a thousand to Re-Sod the burnt out area. Has this happened to other people in the Historic Area or anywhere in The Villages? I didn't call anyone to report it because I didn't want to waste their time and I really don't know who to report it to. What's done is done I would just like to alert others to save some unnecessary anxiety. It really looked good to me before, this stinks. :boxing2: It was a Black Pick Up with a trailer in tow. Oh well, Onward. :ohdear: |
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The grass is very resilient here. Just water the heck out of it.
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My neighbors had this happen a few times, landscaping company went to the wrong house, but they were lucky, no major damage.
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I hope they don't send you a bill. But then again at least you'd know who did the damage..
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The grass down here is what we called crab grass up north. It is pretty hard to kill, if you give it time I am pretty sure it will grow back.
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Your post was a good, informative one. We’re dealing with a horde of chinch bugs, and our lawn looks like c**p. Hubby doesn’t want to use too many pesticides at this point. I look at the lawn and wonder why we’re still having it mowed. |
My two cents worth
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It is actually the wrong time to dethatch as your lawn is shutting down for winter. The best time is April when your lawn is growing. Obviously you cannot undo it. The open ground this time of year will likely allow weeds. You may want to wait two or three weeks and apply weedkiller. Not one of the weed killers pus fertilizer which are all high nitorgen-you want to allow your lawn to naturally go into winter. If, simply cut to short, I will recover. You need only to rake up the clods of grass yousay were left behind and don't let it run dry. I will take a week or three to recover. It never happened to us but we used to live in an area with oil heat. Many people converted to gas as it was far cleaner and cheaper. We would regularly read about oil companies devivering to home where the tank was no longer ther but people left the fill pipe. Your grass. Imagine 250 or 1,000 gallons of heating oil (diesel fuel delivered to someones basement. I would call the vilages office and perhaps the police. Perhaps, there are cameras that captured the truck the crew or? |
Re; sprays and cinch bugs
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All lawns have issues. If, you do have cinch bugs, you must have St Augustine grass. Chinch bugs do not like Zoyzia. As to hubby doesn't want to spray. You really have no choice. To make it worse the chynch bugs have developed immunity to common insecticides also the insecticidesdo not kill the eggs. Look up insturctions. You will likely need to spray 2-3x at two week intervals. |
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We will have it straightened out by the end of the day. We have Choice Maintenance on our side. It just stinks that stuff like this happens but that's:blahblahblah: why they call it an accident not an on purpose. |
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Am I correct in concluding that if one has a dog, this silica could harm its lungs or cause silicosis? |
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But the dangers of inhaling DE dust are not much more significant than the dangers of your pooch inhaling a whole lot of any very fine substance (such as flour, corn starch, baby powder, arrowroot). The nice thing about DE, is that other than the "don't put your nose into a pile of this stuff and pretend you're a coke addict" - it's non-toxic to dogs and cats, and birds, and other mammals and reptiles. It is only deadly to insects and grubs. The fact that it is *not* poison - means that animals that eat those insects, and grubs, will not be poisoned by eating them. It doesn't taste all that great, but it won't hurt them. It's basically just a particular variety of incredibly fine natural clay. Clay, as you probably know, is absorbent. Any woman who uses facial masks or makeup that allows for a "matte finish" would be familiar with the absorbency of clay. So when you dust the ground with DE, the very fine powder just sort of sits there. Insects wander through your grass as they always do, oblivious for the most part. This clay sticks to their exoskeleton and skin, and they carry it back to their nests, where it dusts the nests. The clay then does what clay always does - it absorbs moisture. From the insect. Basically it dehydrates them to death. Kills the insects, the eggs, the queen, and destroys the nest. Fairly inexpensive. This is the #1 "insecticide" that organic farmers use, because it also contains nutrients that most produce requires to thrive. |
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If the lawn dies, which I doubt I'm gonna find out if it's kosher to put stone on the entire front and sides of the property. I'm not ever going thru this again. All this after people have started to respect each other's property with their animal's. I guess I would pick my problem over the problems some other people face daily. :blahblahblah: |
You should not dethatch St Aug. Only Zoysia. St Aug. is not crab grass, and will die easily from scalping. If you cant tell crab grass from St Aug., you might want to rethink giving landscape advice.
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