Show off your Lawn! (2 Viewers)
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DeeVee8
Straight
Love the drain pipe. I find myself with the urge you shout "Shitters Full".
gopherblue
Straight Flush
What? I’ve been chipping.
Jeevansluck
Royal Flush
I wish I had a nice yard like some of y'all! My goodness! Beautiful!
I'm just one of the losers. I don't give a rats ass about my lawn. Couldn't be bothered to mow it sometimes. City bylaws allow 18" of growth before somebody from the neighborhood can report it.
Here it goes ..
The front...
The Rear...
I'm just one of the losers. I don't give a rats ass about my lawn. Couldn't be bothered to mow it sometimes. City bylaws allow 18" of growth before somebody from the neighborhood can report it.
Here it goes ..
The front...
The Rear...
I do a little mowing.
One Eyed Dollar
Flush
I don't mow at all, and it's pretty nice. We're on a cul-de-sac, so our front yard is a tiny triangle. I added some landscaping and reduced our front grass to a strip about 2' wide by 50' long. My neighbor just mows it with her side of the grass. Win.
In the back we have a little flat strip that is about 15' wide max. My son mows that now for his allowance. Win #2.
My side yards are sloped (ranch with a walk-out) and totally covered in rocks. Win #3.
The rest of my backyard is as steep as a ski slope, and I've given up on mowing. I try to keep the weeds at bay and just let the grass grow. My neighbors hire a guy to mow their backyard once a year, and he did our yard too for the previous homeowner. The price was like $300 to mow one time (and this was like 13 years ago), so I said no thanks. I actually bought a self-propelled mower and tried to mow it myself for one year, but it was so steep that it was impossible. The mower was carbureted and the hill is so steep that it would stall from the angle and/or flip over and try to roll down the hill if I went sideways. So I planted a bunch of trees and I'm waiting for them to take over my hillside.
Earning his keep (you can see the tall grass on the top of the hill behind him. The line of rocks is the top of a 3' to 4' tall retaining wall, so that grass is pretty tall.):
In the back we have a little flat strip that is about 15' wide max. My son mows that now for his allowance. Win #2.
My side yards are sloped (ranch with a walk-out) and totally covered in rocks. Win #3.
The rest of my backyard is as steep as a ski slope, and I've given up on mowing. I try to keep the weeds at bay and just let the grass grow. My neighbors hire a guy to mow their backyard once a year, and he did our yard too for the previous homeowner. The price was like $300 to mow one time (and this was like 13 years ago), so I said no thanks. I actually bought a self-propelled mower and tried to mow it myself for one year, but it was so steep that it was impossible. The mower was carbureted and the hill is so steep that it would stall from the angle and/or flip over and try to roll down the hill if I went sideways. So I planted a bunch of trees and I'm waiting for them to take over my hillside.
Earning his keep (you can see the tall grass on the top of the hill behind him. The line of rocks is the top of a 3' to 4' tall retaining wall, so that grass is pretty tall.):
Forty4
Full House
My lawn is terrible but I love my yard, got inspired and hacked down some of the cattails. Black Walnut trees make it difficult for anything to grow other than Black Walnut trees.
Turtles sunbathing
need to dredge the pond so it becomes more suitable for winter activities.
need to dredge the pond so it becomes more suitable for winter activities.
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Little better striping today.
Big Jilm
4 of a Kind
ok, believe me there is more work coming. Particularly with regard to landscaping. I need 2 to 3 more years!! Landscaping will be nice and lawn WILL be LUSH!
edges will be done tomorrow -- I'm pooped -- over worked myself today.
....and if you are wondering if that is a plant growing out of the middle of that boulder....you would be CORRECT. It has been there for over 5 years without any help. Wish my lawn could do the same....!!!
edges will be done tomorrow -- I'm pooped -- over worked myself today.
....and if you are wondering if that is a plant growing out of the middle of that boulder....you would be CORRECT. It has been there for over 5 years without any help. Wish my lawn could do the same....!!!
My nephew recently saw a little pine or fir (can't recall which) growing out of a boulder in Wisconsin. If your baby tree grows up, its roots will eventually crack that boulder wide open. Trees may be slow but when they grow up, they're very strong!
Steppenwolf
Full House
Don't do it man! Just put some grass in that nice big back yard you've got. Mine, on the other hand, is going to be nothing but concrete... the wifey has grown weary our tropical rainforest of weeds. Just waiting on the ole HOA approval and we'll get er done.Looking at all these beautiful massive lawns make me wanna GTFOH California.
By the way, for those who don't live in Southern California, this is actually one of the biggest yards in our neighborhood... LMAO! Didn't mean to agree with you @horseshoez. I'd rather we both stick around (and yes--also have bigger yards).
Steppenwolf
Full House
@davin, I like that you take pride in keeping your stuff in good shape. Whether its poker chips or blades of grass, you have it dialed in to look nice and pretty.
I love stump. I have one friend who is not the finest athlet though who would spin the hammer and it would go flying - that evening was a dangerous night!
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horseshoez
4 of a Kind
Likewise, option 1 and the better of them would be to stay put. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product. Hopefully we can celebrate when it’s completed with some good food, drinks and let’s not forget...poker!!!
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Do you have any other local companies? Tru Green is notorious for spray and pray. My first question to a company doing fertilizing would be do you take a soil test.
But yes that lawn has fantastic possibilities for dominating the neighborhood!
Don't use TrueGreen. Ask the neighbors and find a local company or better yet, buy a spreader and get some Milorganite and apply 4 times a year...(roughly Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and Thanksgiving). They put the schedule on the bag, that's about as simple as it gets. The big advantage with Milorganite or something similar is you can't really screw it up and burn your lawn if you put too much down...they call it idiot proof.
Now, it can get much more complicated then that, but doing that 4 times a year will make a huge difference on your lawn if you don't currently apply any fertilizer. Oh yeah, mow higher and a little more often.
Feel free to PM with specific questions or recommendations. I've helped a few neighbors get off their lawn company and doing their own and you can keep it simple, or catch the bug and really get into it.
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Don't use TrueGreen. Ask the neighbors and find a local company or better yet, buy a spreader and get some Milorganite and apply 4 times a year...(roughly Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and Thanksgiving). They put the schedule on the bag, that's about as simple as it gets. The big advantage with Milorganite or something similar is you can't really screw it up and burn your lawn if you put too much down...they call it idiot proof.
Now, it can get much more complicated then that, but doing that 4 times a year will make a huge difference on your lawn if you don't currently do anything. Oh yeah, and mow higher and a little more often.
Feel free to PM with specific questions or recommendations. I've helped a few neighbors get off their lawn company and doing their own and you can keep it simple, or catch the bug and really get into it.
my lawn guys cut at a perfect height. My issue is a ton of weeds and clover. I’m figuring the lawn company will do better than me at killing the weeds and once the yard is triaged I can take over with milorgamite.
Hmm this is good to know and likely worth tryingDon't use TrueGreen. Ask the neighbors and find a local company or better yet, buy a spreader and get some Milorganite and apply 4 times a year...(roughly Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and Thanksgiving). They put the schedule on the bag, that's about as simple as it gets. The big advantage with Milorganite or something similar is you can't really screw it up and burn your lawn if you put too much down...they call it idiot proof.
Now, it can get much more complicated then that, but doing that 4 times a year will make a huge difference on your lawn if you don't currently do anything. Oh yeah, and mow higher and a little more often.
Feel free to PM with specific questions or recommendations. I've helped a few neighbors get off their lawn company and doing their own and you can keep it simple, or catch the bug and really get into it.
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It's very worth well trying! Biggest issue for most is finding Milogranite in stock. That picture of a pallet of fertilizer is Milogranite
. Home Depot and Lowes will have it for $15.99, you should be able to take a screenshot from Fleetfarm.com and get them to price match down to $9.99 a bag.
Wils
Flush
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St Augustine.
Coming along nicely.
Back when I was a teenager (almost 40 years ago) my dad had me spreading the lawn with Milorganite. It was like magic, had to mow every 5 days. To this day, it’s the only fertilizer I use.
boltonguy
Flush
I had been with tru green for the past five years and just left them. The annual cost kept going up 20% annually and I just wasn’t blown away by the results. I priced out the fertilizer and found that I could do it myself for a fraction of the cost with a broadcast spreader. I am using Lesco brand products and my lawn looks better this time of year than it ever has with the tru green service.
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