{"id":165,"date":"2011-06-28T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-06-06T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T17:49:52","slug":"july-lawn-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/06\/28\/july-lawn-care\/","title":{"rendered":"July Lawn Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1394\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0998.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1394\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1394\" title=\"DSC_0998\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0998-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0998-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0998-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful Home Lawn in mid-June<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Around\u00a0July 4th it&#8217;s\u00a0time for a second (and last) application of crabgrass preventative. The herbicide\u00a0which you applied in late winter is likely worn off. The basic herbicide preventative product tradenames (and active ingredients)\u00a0are: Barricade\u00ae (prodiamine), Dimension\u00ae (dithiopyr), Echelon\u00ae (prodiamine + sulfentrazone), Pendulum\u00ae (pendimethalin), and Ronstar\u00ae (oxadiazon). Irrigate (1\/2 inch water or 1\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0hours watering with an oscillating sprinkler) within a few days after application to activate the herbicide.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Cutting\u00a0(mowing) of cool season grasses (tall fescue,\u00a0bluegrass, red fescue,\u00a0ryegrass)\u00a0needs to be raised to 3- inch height\u00a0over the summer months. Fertilizing\u00a0a cool season\u00a0lawn is not recommended unless it is kept irrigated over the summer months. Warm season lawns (burmuda, zoysia, centipede) likely need additional nitrogen applied.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>July is Japanese beetle assessment time. What is the level of beetle feeding activity on shrub flowers and foliage? This\u00a0will determine grub\u00a0levels in the soil feeding on\u00a0lawn roots\u00a0this fall. Will you need to begin an insecticide program this fall?<\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Looking ahead<\/strong>: Has bad weather, diseases, insects, and\/or weeds devastated your lawn? You\u00a0should assess the need for fall renovation\u00a0 in late summer (early September thru mid-October). Tackling this task now in the middle of summer rarely works out. Allow the cooler autumn weather to work in your favor.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around\u00a0July 4th it&#8217;s\u00a0time for a second (and last) application of crabgrass preventative. The herbicide\u00a0which you applied in late winter is likely worn off. The basic herbicide preventative product tradenames (and active ingredients)\u00a0are: Barricade\u00ae (prodiamine), Dimension\u00ae (dithiopyr), Echelon\u00ae (prodiamine + sulfentrazone), Pendulum\u00ae (pendimethalin), and Ronstar\u00ae (oxadiazon). Irrigate (1\/2 inch water or 1\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0hours watering with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[677,731,329,676,698,630],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}