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Field notes for better turf
Build a Better Lawn.Know Why It Works.
Real lawn. Real tests. The products, methods, and lessons I use to improve my Bermuda grass.
Pre-emergent window
Get Ahead of Fall Weeds
Fall weed prevention is my next lawn project. Plan ahead for your local window, check soil temperatures, and get your application setup ready.
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What You Need Right Now
My picks for this project. Check the guide and product label for your lawn.
Start with your lawn
Build a better lawn—or solve what is holding it back.
Follow the fundamentals in sequence, or jump directly to the problem you need to diagnose.
Build a Better Lawn
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Know Your Lawn
Identify the turf, site conditions, and starting point before changing the program.
Soil & Nutrition
Use soil information to make deliberate fertility decisions.
Water Correctly
Measure how much water reaches the lawn and adjust for conditions.
Mow Correctly
Match height and frequency to the grass and its growth rate.
Control Weeds & Problems
Identify the cause before choosing a control strategy.
Right now: Fall Pre-EmergentMaintain & Improve
Build repeatable seasonal habits and improve one constraint at a time.
Solve a Problem
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Weeds
Identify what is growing before choosing a control strategy.
Yellow / Off Color
Separate nutrient, water, mowing, and soil causes.
Thin or Bare Areas
Work through sunlight, soil, water, and growth limitations.
Watering Problems
Diagnose scheduling, output, coverage, and drainage.
Disease / Fungus
Compare disease symptoms with other common turf stresses.
Uneven Growth
Find the source of inconsistent height, density, or color.
What I’m doing this week
Improving
This profile is being updated with current photos, measured lawn zones, irrigation settings, and equipment that is actually used on the property.
Open the lawn dashboardLatest field tests
The lawn is the lab.
Real questions, documented methods, and honest outcomes—including tests that are still underway.
My Garage
Products I actually use.
Equipment earns space here through ownership, testing, and practical field work—not a catalog slot.
Popular Guides
Start with a proven guide.
Practical instructions organized around measurement, repeatable processes, and what the turf is actually doing.
My Lawn
One property. Every decision documented.
Front and back lawn zones, current status, irrigation settings, equipment, and the program behind the results.
Front Lawn
The public-facing lawn zone, documented separately so its conditions, program, photos, and current work stay clear.
Currently I'm under a scalp reset after a month of drought. I'm counting on rain to help with my irrigation bill while I undergo this scalp reset to restore a golf course thick carpet by fall.
- Area
- 2600
- Grass type
- Tif 419 Hybrid Bermudagrass
- Mowing height
- Scalp 1/4"
- Sun
- Full
- Water
- I recently changed to 3d printed nozzles for mist elimination and full water use on my lawn. I'm currently watering 1" per week with hand watering too post scalp to reset the lawn in the heat of summer.
- Current program
- Program log in progress
- Current project
- Updates coming soon
- Latest update
- Scalped it 8/30 for a reset. Verticut with a dethatcher and applied fertilizer and water.
Back Lawn
My Backyard is our backyard golf practice area / soccer field. It's a work in progress and hasn't had the full process of leveling and dialing like the front has. With it's size, there are tons of possibilities that we'll be working through in the future.
Maintaining as we can through the summer drought. It's in heat stress dormancy due to the heat and lack of water, but it's weed free.
- Area
- 10,000 SF
- Grass type
- TifWay 419 Hybrid Bermudagrass
- Mowing height
- 3 inches
- Sun
- Full
- Water
- 3 Zones with Hunter PGP Rotors for coverage with my custom 3d printed nozzles. No mist... but still a big water bill.
- Current program
- Program log in progress
- Current project
- Updates coming soon
- Latest update
- Holding pattern until we get rain and sub 100 degrees…
Before & After
Results live in the record.
After spraying nitrogen and iron on my scalped lawn of 7 days... here are the 3 day results after spraying and letting the fertilizer sit on the leaves.
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Latest articles
New from the field notebook
Yellow Bermuda Grass: How to Find the Real Cause
Yellow Bermuda grass isn't a diagnosis. It's a symptom, and the important part is figuring out what caused it before you start treating it. When Bermuda turns yellow, I like to work through the simple possibilities first: water, insects, disease, nutrients, mowing or chemical damage, and a few weird environmental problems that are surprisingly easy to miss. The shape of the yellow area, what the individual grass blades look like, what's happening below the soil, and when the problem appeared can usually narrow things down pretty quickly. The goal isn't to become a turf pathologist every time your lawn changes color. It's to slow down long enough to collect a few clues. In this guide, I'll walk through a simple diagnostic process you can use before you start buying products or applying treatments.
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Spring Pre-Emergent for Bermuda Grass in Texas
Time spring pre-emergent for an established Texas Bermuda lawn using target weeds, local conditions, product labels, calibration, and renovation restrictions.
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How to Measure Your Lawn for Fertilizer and Watering
Knowing your lawn's square footage is one of those basic measurements that makes almost everything else easier. Fertilizer rates are commonly expressed per 1,000 square feet, product bags list coverage in square feet, and knowing the size of individual lawn sections helps you stop guessing about how much product you're actually applying. You can measure a simple lawn with a tape measure, break an irregular lawn into smaller shapes, or use satellite imagery from Google Maps or Google Earth to trace the turf from above. Then, when it comes to irrigation, pair that lawn map with a catch-can test to find out how much water your sprinklers are actually delivering. Once those numbers are known, fertilizer and watering become much more repeatable.
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Better lawn decisions begin with better observations.
Use the guide library to connect mowing, water, soil, nutrition, and prevention into one practical program.