ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

tomtom79 schrieb:

We currently have a problem with our lawn; it’s actually burning along the edges next to the curbs. I know it’s hot outside and yes, I do water it, but the edges still get damaged..

It looks the same for us. There is also a small green strip right next to the curb.
We water daily for about 20 minutes using an irrigation system supplied by a well.
This is exactly at the sprinkler’s turning point.

Are the sprinklers overlapping? This is often done incorrectly.
Saying 20 minutes doesn’t indicate the amount of rainfall.
What type of sprinklers are they, and what is their flow rate?
Daily watering is not ideal. It’s better to water less frequently but more thoroughly, preferably early in the morning.

We are experiencing a rapid spread of the May beetle grub infestation. This year, during the root-feeding stage, large areas of grass have turned brown and died off. In gardens, people can roll up their dead, brown lawn turf and find between 50 and 100 large grubs per square meter, along with hundreds of tiny grubs underneath. The large grubs will emerge as May beetles in May 2020 and multiply, while the tiny ones will do so the following year. Female beetles lay around one hundred eggs. No one really knows how to stop this.

Digging over the soil so the birds will eat the pests.

I need to ask my mother; she had this in her raised bed. I think she placed potato halves. These attract the larvae, which are then removed.
Anything infested by these critters ends up spoiled.

rick2018 schrieb:

Are the sprinklers overwatering? This is often done incorrectly.
Running them for 20 minutes does not indicate the amount of water applied.
What type of sprinklers are these, and what is their flow rate?
Daily watering is not ideal. It’s better to water less frequently but more thoroughly, preferably early in the morning.

In our case, we use Toro Mini-8 gear-driven sprinklers (flow rate: 3–12.9 liters/min) (0.8–3.4 gallons/min). The irrigation pump sets the system at 3.5 bar (50 psi). Overwatering occurs only in a few spots, but certainly not at the brown edges. These are, as shown in the picture, located almost directly at the edge near the curb. The system was planned and commissioned by a landscape gardener.

haydee schrieb:

Digging over the soil and letting the birds feed on them

I need to ask my mother, she had some in her raised bed. I think she spread potato halves. They attract the larvae, which are then removed.
Anything where these critters are gets damaged.

She didn’t do the potato method. She found it too disgusting.
She dug the soil, they don’t like that,
checked for larvae,
the next day dug and checked again,
and then applied lime.

This kind of method only works in a garden. For lawns, maybe scarify and/or slit with a spade, then apply lime.