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Posted by Jim Wile --Previous Message-- You should also hand water these spots in the fringe each day with a hose in addition to the regular watering they normally get when you water the green. Another thing that can cause blue turf that quickly turns brown is over-fertilization. Is it possible you put too much fertilizer on your fringe?
on 7/4/2005, 12:33 pm, in reply to "Fringe is dying. Help Jim W."
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: : Hi Jim.My climate will be quite
: similar to yours as I am about 25
: miles north east of Port Huron. Have
: been having trouble with my fringe.
: I think I over cut it about 6 weeks
: ago as I was waiting for my mower to
: be sharpened and it seemed to really
: stress it. Some of the fringe did
: not come out of it but I thought it
: may have been due to the opressive
: heat wave that we are going through.
: Just the other evening I noticed
: that some of the fringe,that was
: doing fine, had a blueish colour to
: it and the next day it was totally
: brown. Havn't been
: overwatering(every 2or3days at
: dusk)I'm afraid it is going to
: spread to the green. Any advice
: would be apreciated. Thanks Ken.
:
When grass turns blue, that is the sign of wilting due to lack of moisture. Cut out a wedge of turf with a pocket knife or use a soil probe to inspect the soil. Is it dry? If so, you've got some localized dry spots. One part of my fringe is prone to this. I apply a wetting agent routinely to the whole green and fringe to prevent these from forming. You can purchase one from Lesco, but it kind of expensive. You can also try mixing a few tablespoons of liquid dish soap with water in a watering can and applying that to the dry spots. Then water thoroughly afterwards to wet them. Don't worry when that grass turns a darker green; that is natural and will disappear in a few days.
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