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Posted by 69strat on September 11, 2006, 11:02 am
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Pat Kiewicz wrote:
> 69strat said:
> >
> >Just had part of the lawn replanted because of a new road going in.
> >They used Kentucky Bluegrass. It was coming in really good, even in
> >the hot July-Aug weather. I made the mistake of mowing it when it was
> >tall and wet. Now it's very orange and after walking through it, my
> >shoes look like they were eating doritos.
> >
> >I fertilized yesterday. I don't know if that's good to do or not at
> >this point. What else can I do?
>
> Just maintain proper lawn care.
>
> When they paved my street, the reseeded area came up alright at first
> and then went to rust. They had 'restored' the area with what looked
> like scrapings from the old road with a dusting of topsoil. I gave it a
> couple of extra light applications of fertilizer and a top-dressing of
> compost and it turned out OK.
>
> This was in the Sept. 8 Landscape Alert newsletter from the MSU extension
> service:
>
> Rusty sneakers
> One of the dangers of autumn is turning those new, white school sneakers
> to orange after walking through the lawn. After what was a sporadically
> sultry summer, the cool temperatures in autumn often result in rust
> showing up on lawns. Rust is very diverse; there is stem rust, crown rust,
> leaf rust and stripe rust. Don't worry about what rust might be
> contaminating your lawn, as a general rule in almost all cases rust is
> considered a cosmetic turfgrass disease that although it may discolor the
> turf, it will not result in wide-spread death of the turfgrass. If you find
> yourself inundated with a bad case of rust, make sure to keep up on your
> mowing, and if you haven't applied any fertilizer in a while, consider a
> fertilizer application to stimulate turf growth, which will help diminish the
> impact of the rust.
> http://www.ipm.msu.edu/cat06land/l09-08-06.htm#8
>
> --
> Pat K. ('someplace.net' is comcast)
>
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> (attributed to Don Marti)
THANX! Glad to hear it's mostly a cosmetic thing.
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