Y’all remember our contest winner Corey?! Well, he’s hit the 8 week mark and sent us a recent update of his California Buffalograss lawn!

His 8 week pre-mow status:

And post mow:

Wanna see more pics? Check out his website to see his lawn’s complete progress!

Here’s what Corey had to say:

“Eight weeks in and I have to say “Wow!”  Finally hit a consistent spell of hot sunny weather at the beginning of July and the grass really took off.  We went out of town for a week at the beginning of July and came back to find massive spreading of the grass throughout.  I was able to setup a better sprinkler timer before we left so was able to water 3 times a day, which probably also helped a lot (I reduced to twice a day a week or so ago because I think I was over watering a bit.  Will adjust depending on hotness of the weather…).  There were some spots that were not filling in as quickly/nicely so I spread some old steer manure or potting soil that I had onto those areas.  Maybe I can trick the grass to root into the manure/potting soil to fill in those spots.

At the 4 week mark, I was commenting to you about the weeding task, and looking for an easy way out via a spray.  I am glad I held off on trying any chemical methods.  Seeing how this grass explodes, one can really, really see how it can choke the weeds out.  Impressive.  Still need to get in there and do weeding, but it is much reduced now.  It is actually a little tougher to get to the base of weeds now to do a good job of pulling out roots because the grass fills in so densely.  So be it!  The mowing should help so will see.

Now another question if I may…  If you please look at the “8 Wks pre-mow Front” picture, perhaps you can make out that there are lusher, greener portions to the lawn, and yellower portions to the grass.  This is more obvious towards the rear half of the lawn where there is a yellowish central area while the perimeters are really lush and green.  The grass must be telling me something, but what?  Too much water?  Not enough?  Need more/less fertilizer?  Something else?  I am not too worried because the grass seems to be growing nicely, and I will probably be taking a wait and see approach (especially after this first mow), but still curious what might be going on.”

And you’re probably curious as to our response: “Looking at the premow looks like it might be your irrigation pattern since it’s so symetrical. Can you see how much moisture the center area has compared to the outer circle? If they’re same then probably a fertilizer feed in the center areas. Those are the only two things I can think of that is causing the coloration difference.”