Horticultural riders

[dangerous]

For what it's worth D, the late Eddie Ridgen who'd farmed just up the road all his life, reckoned most of Greendale was too heavily contaminated by the DDT used to eradicate grass grub in the 70's and 80's to ever be used for dairying...

Unless when you dig you find fresh grubs I'd think it could be fungal.

Brought the paddock of Eddies brother, been to his house recently his wife often has local BBQ's thats when the penny droped and I relised it was Eddie who held the black stump rally.
Will do a wee dig up after work today, and I must google this DDT shit.

[Akzle]

sommatsommat di ethyl tryptamine.
Or agent orange.
Dont fuck with it.

You probably need to be a reg chemical applicator with approved handler certificate to buy.

Still. Dont get having land that all yov do is pay to mow.

[scissorhands]

See your neighbour farmer, he should give you something, last thing he wants are soil pests to move over on to his property

[Asher]

DDT isn't too bad but when to breaks down to DDD and further to DDE that's when it starts doing very bad stuff to the environment.

[carbonhed]

DDT's been banned for decades. Diazinon's an organophosphate and probably not going to be available for much longer either.

[Oakie]

I remember it being spread all over the playground when was at Oamaru South School in about 1970 I guess. We were told not to go on the grass or we might die. Fun times! I don't think they've used DDT on school grounds for many years.

[RideLife]

very helpfull ta

yip ta... $66 later and its spread

As for the rest of ya's cheers for the info, piss's me off all the hard work that has gone into the lawns from a lewcern paddock and to have it dieing in front of me. The acre behind the house seems ok but its quite long, does that help if I dont mowe?

Will do a wee dig up after work today,

Did you find any grubs? Is there any sign of the dirt mounds caused by Porina?
It won't help no matter how much insecticide you put on if it is 'red thread' disease.

Red thread is a common disease in new lawn when the growth is young and easily stressed. (It is quite noticeable in your pic). it can be spread to other area on a lawn mower, or even by someone's shoes. It needs to be sprayed with fungicide. Taratek F5 is a good commercial one, but small bottles of it called 'Greenguard' can be purchased at most garden centres.

[dangerous]

Did you find any grubs? Is there any sign of the dirt mounds caused by Porina?
It won't help no matter how much insecticide you put on if it is 'red thread' disease.

Red thread is a common disease in new lawn when the growth is young and easily stressed. (It is quite noticeable in your pic). it can be spread to other area on a lawn mower, or even by someone's shoes. It needs to be sprayed with fungicide. Taratek F5 is a good commercial one, but small bottles of it called 'Greenguard' can be purchased at most garden centres.

havent had a chance to dig yet, dark when I leave and dark when I get home, will try tonight.

See your neighbour farmer, he should give you something, last thing he wants are soil pests to move over on to his property

Have done, and he said he had noticed it, he is going to ask his spraying guy, hes a bit slack tho so could take a while... its all crops round this area so if hes concerned hell get back to me.

[george formby]

Good for spraying on aphids too! Or dishwashing liquid.

+1 I whack all my nasties with a mixture of laundry powder & white vinegar.

I use laundry powder, salt & diesel for weed killer. (Bamboo, ginga, wandering dew etc).

[dangerous]

Take a spade and dig out a square turf about 100mm deep you may find grass grubs, 25mm yellowy brown beetle larvae C shaped.

done and found these ugley wee buggers, each spade had 2 grubs I asume? and lots a worms.

[NinjaNanna]

sadly it sounds as though to kill the grubs you'll also kill the worms

[carbonhed]

done and found these ugley wee buggers, each spade had 2 grubs I asume? and lots a worms.

Grass grub.

[Akzle]

sure they not cicada larvae?

[_Shrek_]

the red in the grass may be lack of water D that's if you haven't found any grass grub

& if it's grub use hitchers method less damage to soil

[dangerous]

the red in the grass may be lack of water D that's if you haven't found any grass grub

& if it's grub use hitchers method less damage to soil

LOL... aint no shortage of water, havent seen the sun for over a week... Laundry powder huh... ok, cheapest brand then?