Spring Lawn Treatment 2012

[admin]

Over the next couple of weeks (Feb 21 - Mar 2) TruGreen will be applying a liquid treatment to all Lantana lawns which contains pre-emergent, broad leaf post-emergent and fertilizer. Please water your lawn within 72 hours of application to ensure proper activation of these chemicals. Weather permitting, we will be following the schedule below:

Tuesday 2/21
Laurel
Fairlin
Sonora
Camden

Wednesday 2/22
Larkspur
Dakota
Telea

Thursday 2/23
Magnolia
Bellaire
Isabel
Brazos

Friday 2/24
Sierra
Bandera

Tuesday 2/28
Brenham
Navarro
Wisteria

Wednesday 2/29
Sandlin
Wimberley
Carlisle
Laviana

Thursday 3/1
Meridian
Crescent
Azalea

Friday 3/2
Heritage
Madison


Source: Lantana Community Association

[Pipeline]

On the post emergent broad leaf weed killer, that sounds like a broadcast weed killer applied everywhere in the lawn. Most labels of broadcast weed killers for broad leaf weeds, under the "environmental hazards" listing on the back of the bag, (nobody reads), say "do not use near, under or around desirable flowers trees or shrubs."

Scott's Bonus S, for St. Augustine grass, says don't use under trees. Scott's Turfbuilder +2, for burmuda,says don't use in area where it might get washed into an area where you don't intend for it to be.

Trees are large broad leaf weeds. Broad leaf weed killers are the largest detriment to tree death, in the urban landscape. Even if the chemicals are applied according to label directions, slow take up of these chemicals over time, can set plants on a slow death spiral.

Lantana's transplanted trees rarely look good after all these years. Could it be overuse of herbicides? Maybe. The only neighborhood where the trees look worse is Robson Ranch.

Ask for the MSDS chemical sheets, before application, look up the chemicals hazards online, and determine if you want them used. If True green is using a triple chemical coctail, in one application, beware.

Just sayin'. But what do I know?

[JKTex]

If True green is using a triple chemical coctail, in one application, beware.

Just sayin'. But what do I know?

That's what I always wonder. Why/how professionals do separate, unrelated things that should be done at different time, at the same time. Some grass will be effected by post emergent herbicides yet it gets fertilized at the same time, so it speeds up the nutrient intake, taking in the 2-4-D or whatever it is, even faster. That's more like the proper way to kill grass when it's being over sodded or landscaped, fertilize and water like crazy, and spray it at the same time so it gets a good, complete kill to the roots. Besides that, it's too early to fertilize.

Bridlewood is spraying now too, although I don't know with what, besides blue-green grass paint as they leave trenches with the tractor where the ground is still soaked.

[Pipeline]

Don't know who is treating Bridlewood. But never you mind, JK. Due to legal liability, not a lot of chemicals will go into the tank. True green will spray mostly only water. How else can a company win the low bid? It ain't by actually spending money on chemicals. It only takes 2 bits (a quarter to you dolts), worth of food coloring to make it look like they are using something in the tank. It's all about providing Joe Homeowner, too lazy to get off his couch and read a label, with a "warm fuzzy feeling" that everything is copacetic and AOKAY.

Take Common Sense Al, for instance. As long as he is in the comfort zone of his laptop, while "Jose" (who can't read a label on a chemical container, only written in English) is out out treating the yard, while the HOA says this is a good thing, he's cumfy.

[Common Sense Al]

Take Common Sense Al, for instance. As long as he is in the comfort zone of his laptop, while "Jose" (who can't read a label on a chemical container, only written in English) is out out treating the yard, while the HOA says this is a good thing, he's cumfy.

Common Sense Al is a really smart guy with a lot of common sense, but I know that he doesn't like using unnecessary chemicals. In fact, I know he doesn't use herbicides and pesticides in his backyard. You can tell that the weeds love it when you look into his backyard... but it's "all natural".

[GoNavy]

I just read this on the internet. I'm *hoping* it's not true...

TruGreen ChemLawn’s standard customer receipt lists 32 pesticides available for use through its residential lawn care program. An analysis of these pesticides by Toxics Action Center based on information from the pesticide manufacturer’s Material Safety Data Sheets reveals:

17 of 32 (53%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are possible carcinogens, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
All 32 of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that pose threats to the environment including water supplies, aquatic organisms, and non-targeted insects.
9 of 32 (28%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are known or suspected reproductive toxins (7/32 known, 22%).
11 of 32 (34%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are known or suspected endocrine disruptors (4/32 known, 12.5%).
13 of 32 (41%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are banned or restricted in other countries.

[Rosemary]

I just read this on the internet. I'm *hoping* it's not true...

TruGreen ChemLawn’s standard customer receipt lists 32 pesticides available for use through its residential lawn care program. An analysis of these pesticides by Toxics Action Center based on information from the pesticide manufacturer’s Material Safety Data Sheets reveals:

17 of 32 (53%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are possible carcinogens, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
All 32 of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that pose threats to the environment including water supplies, aquatic organisms, and non-targeted insects.
9 of 32 (28%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are known or suspected reproductive toxins (7/32 known, 22%).
11 of 32 (34%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are known or suspected endocrine disruptors (4/32 known, 12.5%).
13 of 32 (41%) of TruGreen ChemLawn’s pesticide products include ingredients that are banned or restricted in other countries.

Interesting, but by "pesticide products" do they mean only products used to control lawn insects, grubs, etc., and not weeds? The products that will be used in the upcoming lawn treatments specify fertilizer, weed control and not pest control.

[Common Sense Al]

I just read this on the internet. I'm *hoping* it's not true...

Probably true... hence the name "Chemlawn".

No thanks, I want a grass lawn, not a Chemlawn. I'll take the weeds over the "chems" that you can't see but are still there doing who-knows-what.

[love Lantana]

problem is those that use CHEMlawn wash the chemicals into water supply

[skiing1974]

so what are the calculations, how many years before we die from this?