Landscape
A working notebook for the yard: what's growing where it shouldn't, what to do about it, and when. Each entry is one problem, diagnosed and treated.
Seasonal timing — the calendar
The year for a cool-season lawn: when to put down pre-emergent, knock back summer weeds, aerate, overseed, and feed — read by cues (forsythia bloom, seed-set, frost), not fixed dates. Ties the weed entries into one timeline.
Reference · the calendarFiled 23 Jul 2026 · read the calendar →
Japanese stiltgrass — the treatment
An invasive shade-and-moisture annual grass with a tell-tale off-centre silver midrib. Stop the seed before late summer — pull or mow late, grass-selective spot-spray — then a spring pre-emergent and years of zero-seed to drain the bank.
Weed · diagnosis + treatmentFiled 23 Jul 2026 · read the treatment →
Nitrogen deficiency — the fix
Pale, thin, slow-growing turf is a hungry lawn — and a hungry lawn is where clover and weeds win. How to tell it from the look-alikes, then feed it: how much nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft, quick- vs slow-release, and when to put it down.
Soil · diagnosis + fixFiled 23 Jul 2026 · read the fix →
Japanese clover — the treatment
A summer-annual legume colonising compacted, nitrogen-poor, scalped turf. Knock it back before it seeds — triclopyr, mow higher, feed nitrogen — then aerate, overseed, and a spring pre-emergent.
Weed · diagnosis + treatmentFiled 23 Jul 2026 · read the treatment →
Garden chemistry — the shed inventory
Nine bottles read straight off the labels — herbicides, insecticides, one adjuvant. What each is for, how well it works, and what it can hurt: bees, cats, water, and next year's seedbed. Signal words, EPA reg numbers, and hazard flags at a glance.
Reference · the inventoryFiled 23 Jul 2026 · read the shelf →
Tools — the equipment
The machines behind the lawn, and the details you only need once but need exactly when something breaks: model and serial numbers, specs, and the replacement part numbers. First up — the NorthStar tow-behind sprayer and its pump.
Reference · the equipmentFiled 23 Jul 2026 · open the shed →
What's here
- Seasonal timing — the year-round lawn calendar; where every job (and each weed's window) falls, read by cues rather than dates.
- Japanese stiltgrass — a shade-loving invasive annual grass. ID by the off-centre silver midrib; stop the seed before late summer, then drain the multi-year seed bank.
- Japanese clover (lespedeza) — knocking back common lespedeza before it sets seed. Diagnosis, the three-step treatment, and the seasonal prevention calendar.
- Nitrogen deficiency — the pale, thin, slow lawn that lets weeds in. Telling it from the look-alikes, then how much nitrogen to feed (in lbs per 1,000 sq ft), quick- vs slow-release, and when.
- Garden chemistry — the shed inventory: nine herbicides, insecticides, and one adjuvant, read off the labels. What each is for, how well it works, what it can hurt, and how to store it.
- Tools — the equipment shed: specs, serials, and replacement part numbers for the machines behind the lawn. First up, the NorthStar tow-behind sprayer and its pump.
What's not here yet
- More entries, one problem each, as the yard turns them up. Wrong turns land on the 404 page, which suggests where you might have meant to go.
Where to look instead
- home.gf.cx — Dan's personal operating system
- assets.gf.cx — toolkit primitives (cards, media, dropzone, …)
- sandbox.gf.cx — the canonical subdomain template
gfcx_subdomain_new.py v0.3.0 ·
imports assets.gf.cx/cards + assets.gf.cx/media + assets.gf.cx/made-with ·
SITE-config primitive for rename-friendly subdomains ·
edit index.html to add content