What's up y'all? I'm Alan Hayne the lawn care nut. Thanks for coming back for yet another

Lawns Across America podcast. This one coming to you in early June. This is such an

interesting time of year in the lawn care community. You know, I've been doing this. I was

looking the other day. I've been doing that. I've been working with homeowners for over 20

years now. I started working with homeowners back in 1998. But it wasn't, you know, that was with

True Green. So that's when I was working with homeowners there.

Didn't start working with homeowners online until around 2008 or 9.

So whatever that math is, but either way, well over 20 years working with homeowners.

And it's been interesting to kind of see through all the seasons some of the things that overlap,

some of the things that we can count on every single year, such as we can count on the Poa Annua Panic to come every year, which I didn't see it quite as bad this year. I'm wondering, actually, if some of your lawns have gone to seed yet, what the Poa Annua Panic is that we see every year is usually, it's usually in early mid to mid- is lawn start going to seed it's turf type

tall fescue Kentucky bluegrass they'll go to seed just normally and what'll happen is when

that starts happening people think they have poa annual which is annual bluegrass which is also

identified by its seed heads there's a little charts you can get that show you the difference

you know poa annua anews in clumps, whereas with the annual regular seeding of your perennial grass that happens annually, that's going to be the entire lawn. I actually haven't, so I guess I'm contradicting myself. I haven't seen too many posts in the groups this year of grasses going to seed and people having the Poetua An Anua panic. Now, I've seen the Poet Anua panic

earlier in the year where they see any type of seed at all and they assume it's Poet Anua. We've had

that panic or that panic where there's any light spot in the lawn at all, even like a super

tiny little light spot in the lawn. They will see that as Poet Anua and Panic or Poetriv. Anyway, that's one of the things that comes every year. Another thing that comes every year we're going to talk about later, and that is where people see brown spots and they start throwing every chemical in the world at it. We'll talk a little bit about that. There's things that happen every year, but the big one that happens here in June, the thing that I can

count on all the time is what I call lawn care fatigue. And the reason that is is because I'm,

especially with the cool season folks, you know, you're under snow and gray skies. You know,

I talk to my friends still up in northwest Indiana, and that's when I, and the way that we gauge

how things are going for them is, is the sky blue or gray, you know, because that's the challenge

with the Midwest. I love the Midwest. I loved Indiana. I like Illinois, too, over by there. I love,

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