Jungle Jim Sez September October

This has been a strange year for weather. Rain all spring and then 100 F weather all July and most of August. Of course as I have noted before it's been almost 20 years since we have had a normal spring and summer.
The hot weather should make clear to most people why I like mulching. In my garden the new plantings that are mulched survived with no problems. A couple of plantings that I neglected to mulch are showing the heat.

Those of you that have a summer garden often start having open areas where beans or cucumbers or corn is through. You can still plant and keep the garden producing by planting Broccoli, cabbage, Spinach, Swiss Chard, and Lettuce.

If you visit our web site you will read a couple of posts about Nut Grass control. The most important part of the articles is the warning that you have to keep after it until the LAST shoot is gone. Visit us at www.scenicnursery.com.
We are expecting our last shipment of Chinese pottery in August. As I write this it is supposed to be in Oakland and should be out by the time you receive this. We are also continuing to order from other pottery vendors to keep the best selection of pottery anywhere around.

I am considering, considering not for sure, killing my little patch of lawn and reseeding with Nugget blend seed. If if do this I will be starting in early September by using a Glyphosphate weed killer like Kleenup a couple of times to kill the existing lawn and then in early October re-seed right over the dead grass using nugget blend seed, Master start and top dress with humus or Gold Rush.

What am I trying to do by this? Well I don't expect to eradicate the Bermuda grass. I know some will start back. I want to get rid of the creeping red fescue which is terrifically fungus susceptible. I just can't keep it looking good. Nugget blend is a double dwarf turf type fescue that is fairly disease resistant and slow growing which makes mowing easier. It holds its' good color better than most regular turf type fescues do in the winter. It just makes a nice lawn.

Nugget Blend is also availale as sod and is the sod we recommend in most cases. It comes from Delta Sod farm and has a peat base not a clay base so the soil disappears in about a year which gives a smoother lawn eventually.