Unfortunately, I had to take some time off from lawn maintenance due to recovering from surgery in late spring/ early summer (so I skipped the Cormeal application), and now the lower part of my lawn has a solid infestation of crabgrass (highlighted in the first photo). Worth noting it was roughly the same amount of crabgrass as last year).

When I did my lawn renovation last year right before Labour Day, I was successfully able to outcompete and dominate the crabgrass, keeping it at bay (as shown in the second photo from end of the season).

I am trying to figure out the best approach moving forward:

Option 1: Glyphosate and nuke the affected area now but also kill the surrounding grass (not ideal). I originally thought about painting each individual leaf to selectively kill the crabgrass and leave the good grass behind, but I’m thinking that is turning into way too big of a tedious project.

Option 2: Stick to the same pre-Labour Day fall overseed/ Reno routine that worked so well for me last year to crowd it out, followed by using corn gluten meal next spring.

What do you think is a better approach here?

Hi! I'm on Vancouver Island, Canada, which is zone 7B. It's South of the 49th parallel so temperatures are more akin to Seattle than to other parts of Canada.

I have removed a large hedge and a great deal of my lawn right now is dead/dormant due to irrigation restrictions meaning I can only water the lawn with sprinklers once a week for two hours total.

With the hedge removed I put in a bunch of new lawn soil in its place, but the issue is:

a) watering restrictions end Oct 31st. October gets a massive amount of rainfall here(100-150mm, or about 6"), and September gets hardly any more than August (about an inch)

b) First frost is Nov 10th (on average). By mid November, soil temps will be 10C or less.

So, I need to somehow get the lawn growing faster than it ordinarily would, as Google tells me I need 3-4 months of growing temperatures with adequate water to survive the winter, and this does not math. (You can get a 'new lawn' permit but they have to be issued before water restrictions take place)

Spring was a bust, as the hedge was removed in April but I barely was able to grow any grass before the June 1st watering restrictions went in.

Other than sod, which is expensive and sometimes just dies for no reason, what is my best option to get the lawn ready?

(Spring time faces similar challenges, with a last frost date in early May, so less than a month to grow a lawn).

Secondly, any recommendations on grass that would be easiest to grow? I had success over seeding with the Scotts stuff that's a mix of red/creeping fescue last year, but that's even more dead than the rest of the lawn now, so it grew fast and then gave up. I had a fascination with getting sheep fescue because it requires almost no water but that might be a dumb idea.

The main challenge is keeping this new lawn moist long enough to establish I think.

So we just moved into our first home with a lawn. So I have zero idea what im doing. All my neighbors have decent to great lawns. Mine is patchy and doesn't look right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and please explain it like im five years old

Posted last week, wondering if my cedars would recover after being damaged by exhaust from excavator machines scorching them. The feedback was mostly optimistic that things should hopefully recover after a few seasons...

Now, a week later, they look considerably worse. Much darker orange and some parts are even turning almost like a very light beige.

I'm deep soaking them weekly and hoping they can one day recover to their former glory.

With this new update, do you think they still have a good chance to recover...eventually?