Manicured lawn maintenance pro tip from my FIL...

I'll beg to differ.

When we moved in all we had was weeds like our neighbors.

I spent like 300 on dirt and 50 bucks on seed. And now my yard looks like the Irish country side.

Each year I put weed preventative to maintain.

It's gorgeous, soft and dark green. It adds a lot to a homes value
 
Zedhound said:
I'll beg to differ.

When we moved in all we had was weeds like our neighbors.

I spent like 300 on dirt and 50 bucks on seed. And now my yard looks like the Irish country side.

Each year I put weed preventative to maintain.

It's gorgeous, soft and dark green. It adds a lot to a homes value
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I live on hells half acre. My wife's grandfather knocked down anything that looked like a tree within 100 feet of where our house was built. So I could grow good grass unless I got zoysia(spelling).
 
11B CIB said:
Does he have any tips for dirt and rocks
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He doesn't, because he's under 6 feet of dirt and rocks, but the Japanese are onto something...

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yeah, I'm not doing that lol

I have a small patch, about 10x10 in my side yard in the shade that won't grow grass...but it'll grow some weeds that out pace the rest of the yard by 12" a week, so it perpetually looks like crap
 
I'm prepared to share some astounding lawn maintenance tips,as soon as I talk to my yardman and find out what they are . Two hrs a week on my small yard at 15.00 an hour, some of the best money I've ever spent
 
Tell your neighbors you're encouraging the natural reestablishment of native vegetative species through the process of natural selection.

Then put your feet up on the porch rail, crack open a beer, and ignore anyone who says your yard ain't "Green" enough.
 
Windini said:
Tell your neighbors you're encouraging the natural reestablishment of native vegetative species through the process of natural selection.

Then put your feet up on the porch rail, crack open a beer, and ignore anyone who says your yard ain't "Green" enough.
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The EPA guy and his wife next door would buy that. A dead pine fell in their wooded front yard. Being they are in their 80's I asked if I could cut it up and move it to the back for them (I was tired of looking at it lying there). The wife initially objected and said all the bugs that were inhabiting the rotten pine were a good source of food for all the birds she also likes to feed. This is a woman with a PHD in Chemistry, and an MBA from Duke. I told her that it would just be in the back yard and not the front.
 
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get the weeds out and have only grass, it's a heck of a lot easier to mow
 
Green is good. All the chemicals it takes to make a lawn weed free is not.
 
I gave up. My neighbors don't care. It's cheaper and less stressful to join them.

Oddly, we had bees everywhere last week. We cut the grass and weeds and not nearly as many around today.
 
I never understood lawn obsession. I'll sweat every leaf on my magnolia, baby my peppers and tomatoes, and preen over my ferns, but the lawn is just a place for the dogs to sh!t. It's full of "weeds" that I can eat if worse comes to worse.

Honestly, clover, dandelions, mullen, purslane, violets, and chickweed are much nicer to look at that a lot of cow/goat food.
 
Pave it and paint it green.

It'll look green without any additional lawn care to speak of, and for all seasons, too.

Weeds in cracks? That's what they make gasoline for.

Leaves in the fall? Leaf blower.

Snow in the winter? Snow blow a path wherever you want.

Lawn not looking so green after a few years? Paint it again.

Got company coming? Parking solved.
 
When I lived in Tampa on the road to MacDill AFB there was a house with indoor/outdoor carpet and rocks for the yard.
Leaf blower and 10 minutes and he was done, cold beer time.
 
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