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It’ll be interesting to see how it does in the shady areas.
I would say it could be as fast as one to two days. They have such tiny root structures that they would probably desiccate within hours. Full sun and summer heat would accelerate it. Soil with plenty of organic matter would probably hold onto water longer, but the margin for error is small.
Bermuda seed is most likely to successfully get grass quickly if you go the seed route. Seeding is gonna be more labor intensive at first because you can’t allow the seeded areas to dry out for even a short time period.
Consider “checkerboard sodding” to cut the cost of sodding potentially in half. In other words, lay down pieces of sod every other space and stagger the pieces in adjacent rows. St Aug spreads fast, second only to bermuda. So maybe you can have a completely knit together lawn by sometime this summer.

re: Rising Sun Redbud Tree

Posted by bkhrph on 4/18/25 at 6:13 pm
No doubt that came from Stine’s. Not a knock against you; I’ve bought trees and shrubs on occasion from Stines that I don’t find anywhere else.
At least at my local store, many more than should be tend to look water stressed.
Carpet grass would make a sort of “utility” lawn where looks are not a priority. It doesn’t look that much different than centipede or even St Augustine but sprouts numerous seed heads quickly, second only to bahiagrass. It looks okay after a mowing. It is only available as seed.
It’ll probably eventually start showing up in a neglected bare area if you do nothing, and do a fair job of crowding everything out. But that’d take too long for your situation.

re: Aerating Lawn Tips

Posted by bkhrph on 4/18/25 at 5:02 pm
They’re heavy and exhausting. I’ve done it once a couple of decades ago with a bermuda lawn and fertilized it afterwards and it definitely had more green, vigor and drought tolerance.
There’ll be numerous soil cores deposited on your lawn and you can pulverize them with your lawn mower or let rainfall dissolve them over time. It’s probably worth it, but it would help if you could get friends or family to help you.

Y’all have a good talent evaluator for a coach.
I You just reload as soon as they leave.

re: If you build it.. They will come"

Posted by bkhrph on 4/8/25 at 5:06 pm
It’s the coach. I wonder if Woodward considered him, or if Golden would’ve even considered coming here in the first place.

re: Mike Malone fired from Denver

Posted by bkhrph on 4/8/25 at 4:55 pm
Maybe they can hire an SEC coach and help us out next season.
Not out of our realm if only we had coaches who excelled at player evaluation and had a good system. I wonder what Steven Pearl could do here.
Your opinion on Norman is definitely wrong. Much nicer than BR.
Now OU athletics? That’s a different animal. Miserable weather? It’ll get better.

re: Zoysia fertilizer

Posted by bkhrph on 4/4/25 at 10:19 pm
Do you want to thicken it because it was thinning before this past winter? You might be dealing with too much shade, even if it’s dappled. Zoysia varieties differ in their shade tolerance. Fertilizer unfortunately won’t overcome this.
That’s what you get when you let them in the sec

re: Plants and shrubs for shady area

Posted by bkhrph on 4/1/25 at 11:42 pm
I see lots of flourishing Cast iron plants in heavy shade up close to big live oak trunks in older neighborhoods.
Large Pride of Mobile azaleas have been putting on a spectacular show the past couple of weeks. Some of the older homes have these in deep shade right up next to live oak trunks, some probably 8 feet tall.
I haven’t seen them in nurseries in recent years; I don’t know why.
Mine did this wilting around this time several years ago after a hard freeze. I kept it going with copious amounts of water, and organic citrus fertilizer so that it wouldn’t have fertilizer burn.
But As the weather got hotter that summer, it failed to keep up, and died. The leaves never got past the “baby” leaves
In my “post-mortem” trying to understand what happened, I read and confirmed there was both live and dead wood in the same stem. So the limited stem part that was still alive and supporting the new leaves was not enough to support the new growth over time.
Keep pampering it; there may be enough of a living part of the stem to allow it to pull through. Keep us posted.

re: Kim on T Bob show this A.M.

Posted by bkhrph on 4/1/25 at 10:16 am
You probably can’t put the genie back in the bottle that’s NIL.
But I’d wonder if the NCAA could put back in place the “wait out a year before you can play at your new school” on these transfers like they used to. They wouldn’t have to lose a year of eligibility by transferring, but it would force transferring school and player take more time on their decision.
At least that would put the brakes on this runaway train, on both the players and the “plug and play” transfer spots.
I’m probably wrong, but just an idea.
So would you feel better if they took them back to their country? Is sending them to a prison the issue? They really need no Alien Enemies Act. They broke into our country illegally, now they’re going back. They don’t have due process because they’re from another country. I trust the Executive Branch has done their work, especially this one. The previous Executive Branches has deported illegals in the past, as it is their job to do.

re: Crape Myrtles and the snow

Posted by bkhrph on 3/27/25 at 6:58 pm
I had lived in the OKC area a few years ago and many home landscapes had them. They looked spectacular in their hot and dry summers.
They make it through winters up there; a little cold down here won’t faze them.
Is he just now coming to acknowledge this? Maybe he has. But if not, I think it’s odd timing to air it out now.
Oh well, better late than never.
I’m sure he’ll generate some excitement in the program.
Bring it back up to level with Scotts lawn soil. If it’s a shady spot, mix a little “fine fescue” with the bluegrass seed you’re trying to match with your existing lawn. Don’t get anything from the “big box” stores because they have cheap stuff. You don’t have large areas, so perhaps over time, your bluegrass will grow over them. They send out rhizomes to do that. I have no experience with bluegrass, So I don’t know how long that would take.