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How to care for your San Antonio lawn during the drought - San Antonio Express-News
Buffalo grass is quite drought-tolerant. It's equal to, or slightly better than, common Bermuda grass.This has not been the best spring for the lawn. We are in Stage 2 drought restrictions and may soon enter Stage 3.
Stage 2 restrictions limit sprinkler irrigation to one day a week, and only between 7 and 11 a.m. and 7 and 11 p.m. At Stage 3, sprinkler irrigation is allowed every other week.
St. Augustine grass requires water every three weeks to survive. You have more flexibility if you have a Bermuda or zoysia, as they will brown if they are not watered but will not die. As soon as the rains start again or they can be irrigated with another source of water, they will recover and green up.
With the dry weather, SAWS has instituted Stage 2 drought restrictions, which allows irrigation once a week during limited hours. Hand-watering is allowed at any time.
I've been hearing from readers of this column and listeners of my radio show, "Milberger's Gardening South TX" on 930 AM, that many San Antonio lawns are are starting to brown in areas that are in full sun. Likely, that browning is caused by a lack of water. But if you are concerned it might be take-all root rot or chinch bugs, here's how to test for that.
Pick a 3-foot square in your browned lawn and generously hand-water it every day for five days. Hand-watering is allowed any time under drought restrictions.
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If the test plot greens up with the added water, it usually indicates your sprinkler is not applying the water to the lawn evenly. Other causes, however, may be that the soil under the dry area is compacted, or the soil can be more shallow in that spot, or there might even be rocks under the surface.
This St. Augustine lawn has a big problem with take-all root rot. Hand-water a patch of lawn every day for five days. If it greens up, it's brown from a lack of water. If it doesn't, there is another problem.
If the brown area did not respond to the test watering by greening up, chinch bugs may be in that part of the lawn. They can usually be seen at the base of the brown grass in full sun.
Chinch bugs can be controlled by applying one of several lawn insecticides. The lawn insecticides also work to control grubs if they are applied early enough in the year.
On ExpressNews.com: Basic New Braunfels yard transformed into drought-tolerant, low-water oasis with $65K in landscaping
Grub damage usually shows up as moth-eaten brown areas in a well-watered part of the lawn as a separation of the grass blades that resembles a toupee. Grubs in action often appear in the same part of the lawn in consecutive years. If you had grubs in 2021, you should treat the lawn now to eliminate the damage that will appear later in the summer.
Calvin Finch is a retired Texas A&M horticulturist. calvinrfinch@gmail.com
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25th annual Kids Fishing Day reels in more than 200 children - Watauga Democrat
Hayden Fox caught a 7.92-pound fish, the biggest catch of the day for the under 12 age group.Hayden Fox caught a 7.92-pound fish, the biggest catch of the day for the under 12 age group.
PINEOLA — On June 18, the pond at the Old Hanes Plant in Pineola drew in a crowd for the High Country Sportsman Coalition’s annual Kids Fishing Day.
This year, 287 children under 16 years of age registered to participate. As always, the event was free, and the sponsors provided bait and fishing poles, according to Steve Hicks of the High Country Sportsman Coalition. At the end of the day, they passed out free poles for the kids to take home. Hicks said he hopes this event encourages children to spend more time outdoors.
Debbie and Bobby Blalock from Montezuma heard about the event the night before on Facebook. They’ve been to one Kids Fishing Day before, they said, and since their 7-year-old granddaughter Lucy was staying with them for the week, they decided to bring her. While Lucy didn’t catch any fish in Pineola, she said she caught “15 or so” fish at the pier one time, and Blalock said she had a great time anyway.
Hayden Fox caught the biggest fish for the under 12 age group, and Jaylee Shew caught the biggest fish for the 12 and up age group. Fox’s fish was 7.92 pounds and Shew’s was 4.85 pounds. Both will receive a lifetime fishing license as an award from the High Country Sportsman Coalition.
The event always takes place on the third weekend of June, Hicks said. While the event is free, they accept donations, which fund for the next year’s event. They raffled off several guns, coolers and gift cards as well.
The pond is stocked beforehand and the kids are welcome to keep their fish. If they don’t want to, however, the organizers make sure to give them to someone who will clean and eat them, Hicks said.
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Monday, August 1, 2022
Pennsylvania Guard, SPP Partner Lithuania Join NATO Exercise - ang.af.mil
From left, Pennsylvania Air National Guard Lt. Col. Frank Shoaf, Chief Master Sgt. Jason Everetts, Capt. Matthew Reed, Master Sgt. Frankie Perez, Chief Master Sgt. Andrew Mowry and Capt. Benjamin Kaufman with the 171st Air Refueling Wing’s 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, during the Defender Europe 22 exercise, June 2022. The Pennsylvania Guard and Lithuania are partners under the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program.
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron attended the multinational joint Defender Europe 22 exercise with NATO and other military partners.
The exercise in May and June focused on building operational readiness and interoperability between allies and partners to train as they fight. The Airmen from the 258th went to Lithuania to collaborate with the Lithuanian Air Force and share their expertise on air traffic control operations.
“We are sharing our capabilities and working together to become more efficient. We are collaborating and placing an emphasis on modernization, especially with equipment,” said Capt. Benjamin Kaufman, an airfield operations officer at the 258th.
While the Airmen from the 258th worked directly with the Lithuanians, the exercise consisted of more than 8,000 participants from 11 countries. Over 1,200 Guard members participated.
“It’s important to see things at our level and how we fit into the bigger picture as a whole,” said Master Sgt. Frankie Perez, a mobile tower chief controller at the 258th.
“It was an amazing experience to walk in and see all the different flags on people’s shoulders knowing we are working together,” said Kaufman.
Participating countries practiced many operations, such as live ammunition exercises, road marches and river crossings.
Members of the 258th partnered with Lithuania on airfield operations as part of the State Partnership Program. The Pennsylvania National Guard and Lithuania have been partners under the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau program since 1993.
“It was great to communicate our capabilities — what capabilities we have, what we can learn from each other, and even how we can work together in the future,” said Perez.
With all the moving pieces in a large-scale exercise, extensive support from each host nation was imperative.
“It was impactful to see all of the different NATO countries involved in the exercise,” Kaufman said. “With our State Partnership Program visit, we were able to discuss how our future engagement could benefit both the Lithuanians and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.”
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