LawnBoys

[Anonymous No.1631148]

How is your lawn coming along bros? We are at the point of make or break when it comes to how your lawn will look all summer. What actions have you taken? Which chemicals did you spray? What did you do to take your lawn to the next level and make every boomer on the block jealous as fuck?

[Anonymous No.1631196]

Fucking RENTERS

[Anonymous No.1631203]

>>1631148

rain
rain
and more rain has ensured that lawns all around here are yellow and growing so fast that mowing can't keep up

we've had like 9" more rain just this spring than we usually get all spring/summer long.

we've had so much rain that the silt in the rivers has washed out revealing cars with bodies/bones still in them been missing for decades.

[Anonymous No.1631206]

>>1631203
Ohio bro?

[Anonymous No.1631228]

>>1631206
513- sup?

[Anonymous No.1631237]

>>1631148
First thing I did was pick all the weeds before the first mow. I spread some fertilizer on a rain day and mowed a second time since then. Ive put some fresh soil on a few dead spots trying to bring it back. Yard is huge and tons of pine trees that kill off parts and steal all the water.

[Anonymous No.1631239]

>>1631228
330...Brunswick...2x/week mowing sucks.

[Anonymous No.1631246]

>>1631228
Fellow 513 reporting in. I've had a puddle in my side yard since at least March that used to only develop when we got a lot of rain, really fast, maybe once or twice a year basically. Trying to get some trees topped here, all the companies are two weeks behind at a minimum.

[Anonymous No.1631292]

>>1631246

yeah, I've got some neighbors where their lawn is more "bowl" shaped from the house to the road and basically their entire front lawn has been a lake all spring.

heard also in the news that the mosquito population is going to explode thanks to all the standing water.

seriously thinking about taking my summer in Phoenix AZ.

[Anonymous No.1631329]

>>1631203
CT here. It's pissing me off having all this rain. Can't keep a schedule, have to mow when you get a chance and it's making the lawns spongy. Good for the grass and keeping the weeds down tho.

[Bepis McKool No.1631352]

>>1631148
One of my sprinkler heads got busted off by the drunken landscaper(s) again. The power had gone out so the timer went out of whack and the sprinklers were coming on at midnight so I didn’t notice until the grass started getting yellow in that zone.

Fixed the sprinkler head, fixed the timer, and ran that zone a bunch. Then we got lots of rain over the past week so it’s lookin good. I tossed down some seed in the worst areas so hopefully the rain gets it going but that seed takes forever to root in the soil around here so the surrounding grass might creep in before the seed takes.

Anyway got that TrueGreen going the past couple months because they seem to do better than me throwing all these Hone Depot fixes at the lawn. Spent some time yesterday with the grass killer on the walkways and areas with mulch and trimmed a few trees and bushes, got more to do but the city will try to charge me if the pile on Monday morning is too big.

[Anonymous No.1632171]

fuck the rain.
I barely got 1/4 of my lawn mowed yesterday, then it dumped another 1.75" of rain overnight.

lots of my neighbors have garden hoses coming out of their basement windows from running sump pumps.

so much rain that unheard of mudslides are threatening to 'take out' people homes.

[Anonymous No.1632241]

good
magapedes must suffer

[Anonymous No.1632244]

>>1631329
Sup other rainy CT bro. Just mowed yesterday because who knows when we'll get the chance to again.
On the rare sunny days it's like everyone is out there at once.

[Anonymous No.1632251]

>>1631329
>cm
this is america, fuck off

[Anonymous No.1632284]

3rd greenest on a street of twenty homes. I took over the lawn after I moved here two years ago. The grass type prefers to be cut high so I've been using the rotary mower instead of the reel mower.

[Anonymous No.1632302]

I'm doin' my best here boys but it's a tireing work.

[Anonymous No.1632309]

Pro here in BC.

Just lightly touched up the weeds in lawn but need to take grass/weeds in pavers to the great RoundUp in the sky

I spray it at 300ml per 10 Liters solution

Fertilized once so far but it has been dry so lawn has brown patches I hope will clear up with watering.

Cut it at 3" to keep weeds and dryness down

[Anonymous No.1632325]

welp, my grass is super green. I haven't feed it anything other than compost tea for the last 5 years. Unfortunately I have 2 greyhounds whose feet are like shovels....

[Anonymous No.1632326]

>>1631148
Not bad. Pulled out a bunch of inkweed and nightshade over the last few days. Animals do everything else. God I love living rural.

[Anonymous No.1632345]

soooo why do you guys have lawns

[Anonymous No.1632384]

>>1632345
Because we arnt renters

[Anonymous No.1632398]

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea. May gophers laugh and piss on your grave

[Anonymous No.1632407]

>>1632398
Fffffuck you

[Anonymous No.1632414]

>>1632407
Assshole

>fit told me to lift
>diy told me my yard was garbage
>so I moved my backyard to the dumpster

[Anonymous No.1632433]

>>1632414
>mattock
fuck yeah! this guy digs!

[Anonymous No.1632443]

>>1632414
>>1632433
Sorry anon. My grip is about to fail. The milkweed in this section actually grew some decent roots and I'm losing my digger's high.

>they said I could be anything, so I became a tractor

[Beppy McKewl No.1632485]

>>1632414
>>1632407
>>1632398
That was like the neighbor’s house. Scumbag landlord who was renting wanted to sell the thing so they put in new sprinklers and sod. Which consisted of literally laying sprinkler pipe on the old dead lawn and then covering it with sod and all the sprinkler heads were like 6” above the ground.

The people who bought the house had to rip all of it up and redo it immediately.

[Anonymous No.1632494]

>>1632485
The sprinklers are actually fine

They killed the lawn before they listed the house because drought

All I really object to is the fucking chicken wire. If it was just the plastic from the sod I could poison all this shit and rototill

[Beppy McKewl No.1632497]

>>1632494
Oh jesus. I didn’t even notice the wire. Why???

[Anonymous No.1632501]

>>1632497
It's a mystery.

They thought it would stop gophers?

Maybe if you buy new sod ever year or two it's great because nothing has grown deep enough and the wire isnt so rusty.

Right now it's just barely holding together but its strong enough I'm sure it would destroy a roto tiller or sod cutter.

[Anonymous No.1632557]

This is how I grow the perfect lawn, don't tell anyone.

Get a garbage can. 1 bag top soil, one bag mulch or that white pyrite shit. The shit they put in potting soil. Add a bag of grass seed to it, mix the shit out of it.

Now de-thatch your lawn, I mean rake the fucking shit out of it with a de-thatching rake. Then get a pitch fork and go in a horizontal lines. Stab the shit out of it and wiggle the pitch fork so the holes are deep and wide. Now drench that fucker in grass seed, cake the shit up. Take the back side of a leaf rake and swish all the seed around so it gets in the holes.

Now take your garbage can mixture of soil, wood chips/mulch/white Styrofoam shit and grass seed. Cover the grass seed with that mixture.

Water for 30 mins in the morning and 30 mins before you go to bed. In 1 munch you will have a plush as fuck lawn.

WATER AND BONE MEAL IS KEY.

[Anonymous No.1632569]

>>1632485
Jesus. That's horrific.

I have 9 acres of lawn. Some is spotty with the quartz sand showing through.
Most is bahiagrass, some is centipede (I wish I had more).
So before you talk shit, do the math for 350,000 square feet of mulch/fertilizer.
When I bought this place, there was no grass.
I think I've done pretty good...

[Anonymous No.1632587]

>>1631148
I threw out some Weed & Feed granulur several weeks ago. Was driving down driveway and really happy with how grass was looking. Have been cutting it shorter than normal the past few weeks but I normally leave it highest on mower setting for a thicc green lush look. Will eventually do that, but still want to do more W&F and then some insecticide and or DE powder. Will try an get a pic tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.1632588]

>>1631148
>>1632587
This is one section from June 1, Sunny day. I should have raked some cut grass but too lazy.

[Anonymous No.1632908]

Any help appreciated, I have about 30ft X 50ft with a large cherry blossom in the middle, it's North West facing so 75% of the garden is in the shade cast by the house. Clay soil, so basucally waterlogged if it rains heavily, and I have 7 kids running around on it.... Am I totally fucked?

[Anonymous No.1633026]

>>1632241
>can't even quotelink
>tries to force meme "magapedes"
Your kind aren't welcome here. Kindly fuck off. Kthxbai.
>>1632557
>pyrite
Perlite?
>>1632908
Help with what exactly, anon? If you're looking to make your yard into a better lawn or garden, you'll want to add topsoil and sand (soil for water dispersion, sand for drainage) to the clay you've got -- and till it in.

[Anonymous No.1633651]

REMINDER: If you spray chemicals and fertilizer on your lawn you are a massive faggot and retard with no understanding of hydrogeology (which you learn in fucking middle school). Fuck your lawn, burn yourself alive and then have your wife's boyfriend spread the ashes around if you want some plush little pussy lawn.

Kill yourself twice if you live in a desert region and have a lawn of any kind

[Anonymous No.1634144]

>>1633651
We found the renter.

[Anonymous No.1634172]

>>1634144
If you belong to a HOA are you not the renter?

[Anonymous No.1634186]

lawn is 50% moss, 25% weeds, 25% grass
drainage ditch is getting overtaken by 3 foot tall weeds
rabbits are eating all my flowers
pine cones all over the damn place
hedges are creeping out over the street
why did no one tell me maintaining a typical suburban 1/4 acre would be so much work?

[Anonymous No.1634223]

I've worked really hard over the past few years to get my lawn to where it is. I'm almost perfect. And then today, like giant yellow middle finger is a dandelion. I know where it came from. Neighbors yard is more weeds than grass. Have some fucking self respect

[Anonymous No.1634251]

Gonna rip up my lawn and plant a bunch of clovers and similar species. Any tips?

Slightly uneven lawn with variety of plants and flowers > shitty overcut circumsized grass that's 1/4 of an inch tall and bleached from the sun

[Anonymous No.1634263]

>>1634251
Clover seeds like loose sandy moist soil. Just planted some along the edges of my pavers as fodder for the inevitable weeds that will end up growing there.

[Anonymous No.1634264]

my area [mid-state ny] was getting pretty consistent rain once or twice a week for about a month. was forced to mow twice a week or else the grass was wild. nice lush green, not many weeds at all

had a week straight of nice clear dry weather which browned the grass from cutting it short

now it's rained every day for 8 days and the lawn is filled with weeds and mushrooms

[Anonymous No.1634265]

>>1632251
We are literally part of the 13 original colonies, dummy.

>>1632244
This week is gonna be dryer, also July/August is around the corner so enjoy it while it's green.

[Anonymous No.1634281]

I took the reel mower pill last year, and it was great.
It's raining every day or every other day and I'm having to mow EVERY SINGLE DAY, otherwise the grass is going to grow higher than the mower will cut without killing myself with the effort.

Fuck the grass is probably growing 1/2" a day, but's also turned SUPER piss yellow, so I need to throw a shit ton of iron, but none of the stores sell the pure iron granules, only the fertilizer with 2% iron... and the last thing I want is to fertilize this shit and have it pop like 2" of growth in one night.

[Anonymous No.1634328]

My old man is having trouble with whiteflies fucking up his shit. How do I destroy them?

[Beppokowski No.1634336]

>>1634223
I feel ya. My cheap ass Jew neighbor decided to plant bamboo a couple years ago and the house right behind him and/or the power company has to chop the shit down every 6mos because it flies right up into everything and that lazy fuck and his two sons in their 20s who live at home don’t do shit, they sit inside all day everyday.

Also on the fence we share, he has this big beautiful traveler’s palm and a big pine/fir tree and these vine weeds that take over everything are basically suffocating both trees. They creep over the fence to my side so I have to go out there with the weed whacker and hedge trimmer and fuck up the weeds I can get to (but they have some oil that itches and burns for a few hours after) and then assault them with a heavy Roundup stream. I can’t get them all so I have to do this like once a month, especially since they try to jump from the pine tree onto the utility wires running to my house. They’re going to take over those trees one day and kill them. The pine tree is like 2/3 covered and only the top 1/3 gets sun.

>moves in, talks about how he used to have some million dollar plus house on the intercoastal a couple blocks away
>claims he wanted to downsize
>gets 3 bedroom house with two adult kids living at home
He’s a shitty real estate agent.

He also has sprinklers that work, but Jews don’t think they should pay for water so i have seen them on once or twice in two years and his front yard is half sandy ant hills so I need to make a heavy barrier of that any killer lawn spread shit.

[Anonymous No.1634392]

>>1631292
Haven't mowed in a week now. Rain every day since last Saturday, except today. Even had tornado sirens one night about midnight. Gonna fit pontoons on the mower tomorrow and run it around the yard like one of those bayou skimmer things they run down in the swamps in Louisiana.

[Anonymous No.1634409]

>>1632443
This isnt even my final form.

(The advantage of the sledge isnt enough. I need to make the base longer or have two men stand on it instead of just me.)

Block and tackle around the lime tree is great though.

[Anonymous No.1634446]

>>1633026
>Perlite?
yes

[Anonymous No.1634796]

ITS RAINING EVERYDAY IN FLORIDA
I BLEED GRASS

GET YOU SOME MINT INVADERS AND INHALE GODS BLESSINGS WHEN YOHRE DONE CUTTING

KILL ALL ANTS
WHISTLE WITH THE BIRDIES
GET EM DONE
ITS GOOD TO BE ALIVE MY DUDE

[Anonymous No.1634806]

pro tip: if you dontlike somone, pour airsoft gun pellets all over their lawn. next time they mow they will probably have to go to the hospital.

[Anonymous No.1634819]

>>1631148
my neighbors literally came to my door last week to offer their childrens services in weeding

[Anonymous No.1634821]

>>1634819
you must be a black man. they want you to breed their children.

[Anonymous No.1634825]

>>1634821
nah they are just really into their gardens and lawns and kind of overstep their boundaries. Blaming me for weeds being able to grow in their yard and migrating from mine to theirs...

desu between work, trying to visit my mom in the hospital and a brother now in rehab I am just tapped out for energy to even really care if I have a few weeds.. I think my neighbors dont have much going on in their lives.

[Anonymous No.1634829]

>>1634825
>they have kids and i have my anime pillow

>but they have nothing going on in their lives

yikes

have sex

[Anonymous No.1634832]

>>1634829
whatever, I am thinking about putting ground clear concentrate in a supersoaker and just giving it a little spray in the middle of the night to fuck with them.

[Anonymous No.1634842]

>>1634832
based
hope your family gets well

[Anonymous No.1634851]

>>1634842
>>1634832
same fag

[Anonymous No.1634857]

>>1634851
nope

[Anonymous No.1634861]

>>1634857
photoshop fag

[Anonymous No.1634862]

>clover starting to take over lawn
>less and less lawn to mow every week

Mowing and caring for a lawn is such garbage.

[Anonymous No.1634863]

My entire back yard is clay and sand. I'm currently testing different methods to see what will help it grow best. I started a 4' x 20' section by tilling and removing as much clay as possible. Then planting a home made seed blend and fertilizer. It's working but I have had some issues with random bare patches I re-tilled and added more seed. The next patch is more tilling and clay removal. I plan to add a bunch of new soil and lay sod. The ground is shit and the sun is intense for 4 hours a day so I'll need to see what actually works best.

[Anonymous No.1634914]

>>1634862
Clover used to be incorporated in lawn seed mix for a long time, it wasn't until the scott's company patented a broad leaf pesticide, where they launched a misinformation campaign where they deemed clover as a weed.

[Anonymous No.1634925]

>>1634914
It fixes nitrogen for the grass. Removing it makes you buy more fertilizer too.

[Anonymous No.1634941]

>>1634829
>they have kids and i have my anime pillow
The way you're painting the guy they're incredibly shitty parents sending the kids over unsupervised.

[Anonymous No.1634953]

>>1634925
This. You want to have some fun? When the Scott's guy (or whoever) comes to the door and tells you they'll set you up on a weekly plan that'll get rid of clover and the wild violets, tell him "But I love those pretty purple flowers, and the bees use the clover!" Had a guy actually snort at me with derision, shake his head and sulk off when I said that once. Got a good laugh out of that.

[Anonymous No.1635939]

>>1631148
put absolutely nothing on it
mow every two weeks
watch the bees enjoy all the weedflowers

[Anonymous No.1635991]

>>1632309
This morning.

Its has been cut once and watered twice with a good 3" dump of rain in a thunderstorm.

Color has improved but needs more rain and it gets fertilizer in a few weeks

[Anonymous No.1635995]

>>1635991
The lwan has a lot of rock in the first foot. I used a crowbar and picked out dozen of small and larger rocks and filled in the holes with soil (or actually my wife did as I lose interest in a lot of jobs part way through)

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1636055]

>>1634806
Noted.

I’m a big fan of rubber bands on the driveway. You try to sweep them up but they just bounce and shit and it’s nearly impossible.

Used tires in the front lawn is a good one too. Might not send the person to the hospital, but they will be pissed off when they have to pay somebody to dispose of them.

[Anonymous No.1636070]

>>1635995
they need to do their bit anon

[Anonymous No.1636102]

>>1631148

>having a lawn instead of a garden with spices and edibles.
Subhuman trash

>"I have to much space for just a garden"
Paved path through stone planters, fuck it's not hard, nor is it all that expensive.

Lawns are for scum, gardens are for real humans.

>"I don't have the time to care for it"
Companion planting takes care of most of the job.

"I have shitty soil/low moisture"
Fucking tobacco/yucca, solved.

There is no excuse to waste land on growing grass.

[Anonymous No.1636109]

>>1636055
Paint thinner rude words is Funny on a prized lawns

[Anonymous No.1636126]

>>1636109
Rye grass seed is better and organic

[Anonymous No.1636165]

Posted this in another thread before I realized this one existed: Growing my first lawn here. When exactly should I go about mowing it down? Do I just wait until its above 3 inches and then maintain that until the rest fills in? There are still thin patches that aren't growing in and I don't understand why.

[Anonymous No.1636167]

>>1636102
A week's worth of vegetables costs roughly $30. Get a part time job, work one, four hour shift at minimum wage and you've paid for all of it, and you still worked less time than harvesting and prepping that week's worth of vegetables. In fact, you'd have plenty of time to go mow that lawn, which is what sets you apart from sloppy, shitty renters.

[Anonymous No.1636170]

>>1636126
nah kill the earth for ever.

[Anonymous No.1636182]

>>1636167
>SEEEETHIN

work harder Homer , kek

[Anonymous No.1636289]

>>1636167

A weeks worth of vegetables grown who the fuck knows where, sprayed with who the fuck knows what, transported and manhandled in a way that's putting you so far down the production chain from what's on your platter it might as well be pressed fucking nutrient blocks.

[Anonymous No.1636303]

>>1636167
>Get a part time job

[Anonymous No.1636353]

>>1634172
This

[Anonymous No.1636360]

>>1631292
Sucks to be you. For some reason I have a million dragonflies this year. I feel like Kerrigan in Starcraft 2. I have a brood of protectors.

[Anonymous No.1636373]

First time owning a lawn. Realized I needed to pull all the weeds right at the start and seed in the spring.

Seeded a week ago instead where I dug up weeds, small grass is coming up but it's patchy, I'm guessing I didn't mix the seed well enough.

I decided fuck annual grasses, lots of seed mixes around here have them but that seems stupid to me.

Sprayed some selective herbicide in the front but it doesn't work worth a shit because we can't get the good stuff here in Canada

[Anonymous No.1636387]

>>1636167
Not him, but I make $140k a year and I still enjoy growing anon. Gardening is fun.

[Anonymous No.1636411]

>>1636167
>A week's worth of vegetables costs roughly $30.

If all your buying is carrots, onions, and potatoes, maybe. If you want greens you are paying way more than that.

[Anonymous No.1636414]

>>1636182
Except it would be working less, so...okay? Sorry I seethed.

>>1636303
Shit, you're right, my bad. Get a full time job, so you can move out of your mom's basement and pay for your own vegetables.

>>1636387
Honestly, I do too. There is absolutely nothing better in this world than a home grown tomato. Unless it's a home grown tomato with homemade cottage cheese on it. Just don't tell me there's no excuse for not having a garden, there is: they cost more than they produce.

>>1636289
Dude, /x/ is that way. When you've actually worked in any food related field you may have some believable input about this. Going through drive through on your way home doesn't count.

[Anonymous No.1636419]

Brehs,

Moles be killing my gains, what do?

[Anonymous No.1636991]

>>1636373
First off, you need an aerator. Poke some hols in that sucker. Then use a granular Weed & Feed type spread for now. Water as per instruction. Also, don't cut it too short. You will have a lush GREEN lawn. Don't throw anymore seed,

[Anonymous No.1637007]

>>1631148
I'm in a new home and planning on putting a couple dump loads of fresh dirt down after I clean up all the gravel and rock left behind by the builders. It probably won't look like much of a lawn until next year.

[Anonymous No.1637019]

>>1637007
you should look at your contract and see if they are supposed to remove all the debris, especially the little chunks of concrete left behind... throwing that stuff away can get kind of high cost if you haul it yourself.

[Anonymous No.1637022]

>>1634186
blame your father. then blame yourself for not raking pinecones, pruning trees and picking weeds. how tanned are you?
>>1637007
considered sod? planting from seed sounds like a lot of effort.

[Anonymous No.1637043]

>>1634863
My property is nothing but clay and sand.
Bahia grows amazingly well, but has to be cut constantly- alot of people hate the seed shoots. And it's rough on blades.
It's an awesome grass when it's freshly mowed though and takes zero effort to grow- but the 2 foot tall seed shoots come up almost instantly.
Centipede would be my suggestion if you want to do the effort on a small parcel (I have about 9 acres of bahiagrass and about 1/20th an acre of centipede).
The centipede I can actually let grow for a year without mowing and it still looks like a putting green.

[Anonymous No.1637075]

>>1636991
Thanks. Can't adjust the height on my lawnmower but I definitely need to sharpen the blade. Maybe I'll find some oversize wheels for it

[Anonymous No.1637142]

hey lads, I'm building a house at the moment and to put more value into the house, I've decided to decline the landscaping package involving reticulation system and rolled turf.

I'm looking at having a Zoysia lawn, mainly because I'm in the tropical region of my country. I've been watching this blokes vids to get started, mainly cause he's from my country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5X6yQOLLKQ

How much of an uphill battle am I looking at here? it's 200 square metres which is approx. 2150 square freedom units. Also, any tips would be appreciated

[Anonymous No.1637207]

>>1632345
because everyone else does LAWLZ!

[Anonymous No.1637225]

Get stone paving raised beds and shingle that lawn

[Anonymous No.1637303]

My grass grows fine but I have so many goddamn divots and potholes in the lawn due to trucks driving over it while my house was being built. Also a shitload of rocks too. Should I just throw topsoil over the problem spots and throw the rocks into the woods as I see them or just hire a landscaper for one time and have them get rid of it and just be done with that shit?

[Anonymous No.1637326]

>>1636419
Caddyshack that little goblin

[Anonymous No.1637393]

>>1637303
I would level it out by top dressing. Vid for basic reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiB0FsXsYvM

I would just walk around and pick up the rocks as I see them and pile them up somewhere. This looks pretty cool tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ugHW5ncNk

Depending on your rock problem Top dressing with green manure might eventually bury them.

[Anonymous No.1637397]

>>1636419
Gopherhawk is pretty effective at catching them. It has a problem killing them. Thst is, you pull the trap out of the ground after x hours and hes still wriggling in it and you have to smack him around

[Anonymous No.1637399]

>>1632325
>>1632414
>>1632569
>>1634409

These are all examples of hard pan dead soil and soil that lacks organic matter. Looks like old farm land that's been worn out.

If you`re having to manually aerate your lawn you`re doing it wrong. The worms should be tilling to prevent this hard pan effect. But they're not because this is dead soil.

You should be operating compost piles and composting the yard clippings to get these soils back to life. Top dressing the eventual compost will seed out the worm micro organism and bug eggs to get the soil back to life and add some organic matter back. A cheap source of immediate organic matter to bulk this up is finding manures. Fixing the soil structure on these without pouring money into it will take at least 5 years of composting. I`m years deep into a similar situation and am just now got this evolved enough to start taking in outside sources of organic matter for composting. Although most of my composting stream is directed toward farming and the yard is last in line. Once you get your soil built back and the compost pile in full operation maintaining a lawn becomes easy street beyond mowing.

I`ve been using my dilute piss this year because it's dawned on me wtf am I doing buying N ferts? But finally broke down and bought a liquid N bottle for the grass because it's yellowing. I`m not admitting defeat. The fert. should get me through the year but once the bottle is empty I plan on checking it's dilution ratios since it's the bottle type that connects to the hose for dilution and spreading of liquid. Hopefully I can run undilute piss in it if it's anywhere between 10-1 20-1 ratio. Piss has been working for free N fertilizer for my vegetables and fruit trees so Im assuming the lawn is either my inability to properly broadcast my dilute piss or possibly mistaking an Iron issue for lack of N. Either way the empty bottle will come in handy for broadcasting and direct dilution for other ferts and such.

[Anonymous No.1637610]

Scott's Bonus S once a year and a little water. Nothing else to it. Yep. *siiiipp*

[Anonymous No.1637660]

>>1636419

[Anonymous No.1637675]

>>1637660
That seems hazardous to people above ground.

But maybe it gives cleaner kills than this

[Anonymous No.1637679]

>>1637675
Sure, if you trip over it because you're not watching where you step. The way it works is, you step on the tunnel roof (not enough to collapse it all the way, just an inch or two) then pull the loop at the top of the trap to set the plate. The big spikes go into the ground on both sides of the tunnel, the bottom of the trip plate should just barely touch the area you stepped on. When the little bastard comes through the tunnel he'll push the ceiling up, trip the plate and get fucked. When you see the trap tripped, set it again on a different tunnel section. Repeat until it stops getting tripped. Leave the corpses in the ground, they're fertilizer.

[Anonymous No.1637681]

>>1637679
>>1637675
I see

You stick the white poker tube
In the tunnel to make a hole for the tube with the cage. You pull the body up and the cage comes out and the trigger is set (the little dangly piece in the middle of the cage.)

Gopher walks through tunnel and touches trigger, gets ducked up into tube.

.... killing it like 50% of the time? Maybe I just get out there too quick. Last one only had its fore arms stuck in the tube.

[Anonymous No.1637693]

>>1637681
Too many steps for my liking. Kill it once, kill it dead.

[Anonymous No.1637964]

>" There's a ton of odd laws that govern stuff and most everything is different from state to state and county to county while ordinances are often times bonkers. I live in a place where they can steal your land if your lawn is over 6" in height."


Is it true? You get your land confiscated in the US if your lawn is over 180cm?

[Anonymous No.1637976]

>>1637964
Yes. I am taxed based on the square footage of my roof because the rainfall on my roof is somehow not available to the water shed. I also cant collect the water in my own storage tank for watering my garden.

Murrica.

This is because diane Feinstein owns several major water companies in so cal.

Gotta protect those river fishes
..
That have been fine for 150 years with our water usage but in the 90s somehow was about to die.

Oh thank you for your worthless farm land, my Feinstein conglomerate will buy it all.

[Anonymous No.1637982]

>>1637976
shitbags m8 , Good luck

[Anonymous No.1638027]

>>1637399
Just not that into having to top-dress my lawn a few times a year and put down seed.
Would rather keep the dogs and deal with the inevitable end result.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1638098]

>>1637660
>>1637675
Goddamn, so do those just shoot a spear down the hole?

Caddyshack seems more humane.

[Anonymous No.1638209]

Who /ridingmower/ here?

Got this John Deere 110 off Craigslist for $100. Changed the fuel lines, cleaned the carb, and popped a new battery in. Fired right up. Just need to replace the front tire and I’ll be sipping and mowing by Sunday.

[Anonymous No.1638230]

>>1637399
You are correct on mine
>>1632569
It's an old farm that was overgrown with pines (they suck the soil dry of nutrients/organics).
I have about 9 acres cleared. It was sand when I got here. Nothing underneath the sand but clay. I haven't checked prices but I'm pretty sure I can't afford 350,000 square feet of manure/top soil.
I'm grateful that bahiagrass grows at all. I have mulching blades and don't bag so I'm slowly building up an organic layer. I spend about $120 a month on feed corn to entice deer, turkey and rabbits to cruise around my property and poop everywhere.
When I first got here I would buy nightcrawlers and dig a hole and drop them in. Glad you mentioned worms because I haven't done that in awhile and need to start again.

[Anonymous No.1638240]

Here's a night shot. As you can see I got a real small yard due to the fact that I built a small cottage you see on the right apart from the main house that's behind me. Right now things are green here in San Antonio, TX. The yard consists of mixture of St. Augustine, Milkweed, Dollar Grass and clover all the stuff that's pretty much native. I haven't had to water much and there's plenty of shade from two pecan trees the one pictured and another one on my neighbor's yard behind the cottage. All I've done is spray some scott's pest control to kill the earwigs and rollie pollies last year and all I use to cut it is a 18V Ryobi weed wacker and that's about it.

[Anonymous No.1638354]

>>1637976
California is not America. IDGAF what the maps say.
>>1638098
Mine's the silvery one, not the one that looks like a tube. Yeah, six stabby things. The way they're spaced out, the mole usually gets one in the head, one in the heart, and one in each lung. Fuck "humane," they're effective. Bigger vermin get shot, had to shoot a groundhog nine times with a .38 before it finally stopped moving and making noises. I had tried all sorts of things before, clever old fucker kept ignoring the baited live traps so I stuck a six-inch jaw trap down inside his main den entrance and secured the end of its chain with a rebar spike a few feet away. Next morning I dragged his ass out and shot him until he stopped squirming, had to reload in the middle of it. Kind of feel bad about that one, happened 25 years ago. I think I scorched my spirit that day. Not the first time, nor the last; that sort of shit sticks with you.

[Anonymous No.1638744]

>>1637007
How big is your lawn? And of that space, aprox how much is or will be fucked from the construction and/or new sod-20%, 30%, 40%, etc? Depending how bad and what type of grass you have, I would probably "scorch the earth" that is to kill all existing grass (and weeds) by suffocation. You can use cardboard , black tarps, etc. Then do a spread of fresh nutrient rich sod (even some manure) and seed. Spread a layer of straw over it which will keep in moisture and protect the seed. This will ensure you get a fresh and EVEN layer of new grass of the same variety, Good luck.

[Anonymous No.1638745]

>>1637075
It's a push mower? Get bigger diameter wheels! If the current wheels are 6" across, get wheels that are 8" across. This will add 1" to the height of the grass blades. You will be amazed at the color of your grass.

[Anonymous No.1638977]

>>1636419
Try using granulated fox or coyote urine. Had problems earlier in the season. Dude at the box store recommended it. It worked for me.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639001]

>tfw the lawn needs a mow today because of all the rain lately, but it has been raining all day
Should I just go mow the lawn in the pouring rain?

[Anonymous No.1639004]

>>1634863
I went through the same shit with my lawn. What eventually proved to be the most effective was leaving all my clippings and rather than raking the leaves in the fall, I'd make multiple passes on the rider and mulch the piss out of them.Eventually you get enough organics on top of things to hold moisture, and nature takes over from there. After a few years, I had native grass growing everywhere and the yard looks pretty good from the road.

[Anonymous No.1639008]

>>1636991
>Then use a granular Weed & Feed
Sneed? Have you opened a head shop?

[Anonymous No.1639111]

First time homeowner here.
Moved in last week. Never mowed a lawn before in my life. I didn't know what to do with my mulch so I just dumped them way out on the tree roots and pulenof branches out at the end of the backyard. It took a while as I didn't realize just how much mowing is required for .6 acres.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639113]

>>1639111
Checked. And I rarely, rarely ever bag the grass. Only time worth bagging is fall if you don’t feel like raking or if you let the lawn grow way too long and it’s leaving those little piles of grass all over the place. Like this anon said >>1639004 you can just leave em and they turn into fresh soil eventually.

>>1639001
Sun is comin out, landscaper will probably come early next week but it looks like hell so I might go do it. Gotta pick up all these damn poinciana boomerangs first.

[Anonymous No.1639168]

>giving a shit what your neighbours think
>living close enough to your neighbours to smell their cooking and hear their conversations
>spraying anything that isn't nutrients on your land
>sinking all that time into keeping the grass short yourself instead of keeping animals to do it while generating income for you

I don't get why anyone would buy a house in the suburbs when you can get so much more in the country for less money. It's only marginally less cucked than renting, maybe more so if there's an HOA or body corporate involved.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639174]

>>1639168
Fucking cheap lazy jew neighbor

[Anonymous No.1639175]

>>1639113
You got monkey pod trees?

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639188]

>>1639175
It’s a Royal Poinciana. Right now it’s full of red flowers. That tree is crazy, they go dormant for a couple months, come back with a million boomerangs and seeds, the branches grow like 10ft, then red flowers then regular green for another 8 months. Those seeds all sprout too, I must have mowed 1,000 little sprouts today.

I have one in a flower pot that is basically becoming a bonsai shrunken 3ft tree, and I tossed another seed in these bushes by my neighbor’s fence and that is now a 5ft tall scrawny thing coming out of the top of the bushes.

[Anonymous No.1639206]

>>1639188
Nice, got a picture? And we got what they call monkey pod out here which I guess when I think of it the seed pods look a bit different. But when they fall and hit your house you can hear it and not to mention when you run them over with your car and get stuck to your damn tires.

[Anonymous No.1639256]

>>1639174
That looks like shit and is totally Florida

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639266]

>>1639256
Yeah it’s sandy so as soon as you convert to Judaism and running sprinklers is against your faith, you end up with big sandy spots full of ants.

This is the same motherfucker who has this >>1634336 in his backyard and that stupid bamboo they planted when he first moved in and then they let it go wild.

Motherfucker is always talking about his million dollar house in the next neighborhood over that he sold to downsize. And he parks his used Cadillac in the street all the time and parks it the wrong way against traffic because he’s too fucking lazy to turn around and park the right way. Lots of cities have laws against parking backwards like that, I wonder if I could get him a ticket...

[Anonymous No.1639270]

>>1631148
Bros, educate me please. My yard is more creeping charlie, plantain, and clover than grass. What do I do? I'm white and would like to make it look like a white person lives here. Thansk

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639272]

>>1639206
It’s dark out now so I was searching my pics and best I found was this one from last year. They’re not really tall trees, but they will sprawl out wide. Like I would say the tallest branches are 15’-20’, but the diameter of the thing is ~40’. And the branches grow so fast at the beginning of the rainy season that I have to be out there trimming a bunch because within a week it will shoot out a new 7’ long branch that’s hanging down over the street and will scrape the top of cars. It’s a real soft wood though so pruning is easy.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639274]

>>1639270
You can try weed and feed, or more specific stuff for the weeds you can identify. But you will end up with a bunch of dead spots in your yard for a month or two. Honestly if you can afford it, Trugreen does way better than the Lowe’s cure-all fertilizers and weed killers.

[Anonymous No.1639319]

>>1639174
Jesus Fucking Christ, what has this chan come to when /pol can infect a fucking LAWN THREAD!?!

[Anonymous No.1639325]

>bought into the weed and feed meme
>set spreader according to instructions
>now my yard has brown patches
I've been sprinkling everyday hoping it comes back but we'll see I guess. Fuck.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1639416]

>>1639325
I mean if you want the weeds dead, it works. But you must remember that it takes a little time to get the grass growing where the weeds were.

But after the initial round, you can try to keep up with it and only hit the new weeds as they pop up and it won’t be nearly as bad.

[Anonymous No.1639446]

>>1639416
Well the weeds honestly weren't bad in the back. I just figured it would help keep the grass greener too, but I probably should've just sprayed the weeds instead and used a regular fertilizer.

Oddly the front has more weeds, but I haven't noticed any browning or much of a change at all yet

[Anonymous No.1639791]

>>1639325
Take a fucking picture of this shit, I refuse to believe that the W&F as destroyed good lawn in such a manner. I have used W&F for the past 5 years and just the other day I drove passed my lawn and I swear I though it was so sexy I wanted to fuck it. You are doing something wrong and/or had a total WEED lawn! Man.

[Anonymous No.1640053]

>>1639791

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1640058]

>>1639791
It doesn’t wreck a good lawn, but those giant patches of clover will turn yellow. Just because it’s green doesn’t mean it’s grass. If it really did kill anon’s healthy grass, nigga should be writing to Scott’s for free fertilizer for life, or clarification on the directions because he probably fucked it up and poured half a bag on one spot.

[Anonymous No.1640067]

Bought a property. The lawn has deep(3-4 inches) divots everywhere. How do I fix this mess?

[Bepputon The Wise No.1640146]

>>1640067
Fill it in with soil? Or mulch over time? I had a couple bad ones from tree stumps that got removed and they’re mostly gone now as I slowly dumped leftover soil and small amounts of mulch in there. Never killed the grass either because it was never enough to completely cover the grass.

[Anonymous No.1640245]

>>1640053
looks like it was too heavy in a few spots but doesnt look all that bad. the grass might not be dead as much as burned. keep some water on it
>>1640067
usually just fill in with dirt. might take time if they're big and keep slumping in.

[Anonymous No.1640269]

>>1640146
>>1640245
thanks. I did dump some dirt and spread it. Just thought there might be a better solution.

[Anonymous No.1640313]

>>1640245
Yeah I've been trying to soak it every day. Coming on a week now so hopefully it starts to come back.

[Anonymous No.1641467]

I just fired up my underground sprinkler system in my new house, and the solenoids are buzzing, but they are not turning the valves. What do

[Anonymous No.1641498]

>>1641467

stems might be closed

[Anonymous No.1641532]

>>1641498
I cranked the valves open by hand and the sprinklers work, the solonoids just buzz and don't move when I switch zones. The buzzing switches between valves when I switch zones, but none of them open or close the valve. They just buzz.

[Anonymous No.1641658]

>ctrl+f
>not one single mention of soil pH levels
Can anyone give me a guesstimate of their soil's pH? Can anyone tell me whether their soil is acidic or alkaline?
Or are you all ignorant whelps?

[Anonymous No.1641767]

>>1641658
>guesstimate
I could go get a test done if I wanted. Theres no guessing. Unless it's clearly fucked.

[Anonymous No.1641774]

>>1641767
>I could of I wanted
Ignorant whelps. Got it.

[Anonymous No.1641821]

>>1641774
Anon, are you okay?

[Anonymous No.1641831]

>>1641774
>could of
>Ignorant
Checks out.

[Anonymous No.1642512]

>>1638209
Took her out for the first cut today. Deck needs a rebuild, the bearings sound awful. Got the job done with minimal supplemental support from the weed eater.

[Anonymous No.1642821]

Alright, lets see if you motherfuckers are some kind of experts. I have a nice lawn, if you don't pay attention to Big Green, The grass is mostly healthy ,I keep the weeds down manually, let the clover grow, But I refuse to use weedkiller because I eat all the edibles that come up in my lawn.But what the fuck other than making beer out of it do I do about creeping charlie, because anywhere I have any shade it has taken over?

[Anonymous No.1642875]

>>1642821
https://commonsensehome.com/creeping-charlie/ apparently it's good for all sorts of things.

[Anonymous No.1643673]

I've got a bunch of bare dirt today with dry foxtail seeds all over it. What do?

I can use my lawnmower as a vacuum but it seems messy.

[Anonymous No.1643701]

>>1643673
I think I'm gonna buy a leaf blower and try to get them all in a corner of my yard

[Anonymous No.1645271]

>>1637976
its just sad to see this level of ideocracy
here in germany its exactly the other way around than in stupid usa

even if you use all rainwater it goes back into the water table by watering or it gets filtered at the sewage plant and back in the river.
the tap water on the other hand is 100% pure spring drinking water (in Germany) that needs 20 years to get replaced by rain.

>in Germany the municipal water supply encourages you to use rain water.

Water prices are calculated from 3 things 1 cubic meter water drinking tab water (stricter specifications and controls than bottled water) 2€ 1m3 fresh water equals 1m3 sewage 2€ so 4€ for tab water.

>We tax Rain water that goes in the sewage System and not the thank. 0.30€ per square meter of roof and gutted driveway.

>if your gutter runs in the storm drain/sewage system you pay.
>if you collect the rainwater you safe on water bill, Sewage bill and Impervious surface bill.


pic a automatically tank filler closes the spout when the tank is full made from 100% copper so the gutters last 300years

[Anonymous No.1645455]

everyone who has a lawn and not a giant garden should be flogged and shot

[Anonymous No.1645461]

>>1637976
>That have been fine for 150 years with our water usage but in the 90s somehow was about to die.
>implying the population of California has been stable for 150 years.

[Anonymous No.1645467]

>>1645461
A Californian watermelon. Very common. Green on the outside
Red on the inside.

Communist, government solves everything, please bend me over and fuck me harder, I want to pay $5 a gallon for gas and $200 a month for a pittance if water yesssss

[Anonymous No.1647103]

>>1642512
Lol holy shit this thing is savage. The mower deck is like 100 lbs and made out of 1/4” steel. I used this thing to grade my backyard.

[Anonymous No.1647161]

>>1631203
NJ is having the same problems. All of the rain runnoff has made lakes and rivers fucking toxic from algae blooms

[Anonymous No.1648570]

>>1635995
Heres the current state of thing.

Have 3 annoying "Fairy Ring" mushroom patches going at it due to the damp weather this july

[Anonymous No.1648711]

>>1647161
Fucking starving in Upstate(Catskills) NY for rain.
Too much to use hoses. Used to leave them out but the water inside the hose would get so hot would melt/bubble up the hose and burst. Cheap Home Depot hoses and they weren't even the cheapest brand. Would have to invest too much dollars for "the best" hoses but even that no guarantee form murderous sun.

[Anonymous No.1648714]

>>1648711
Leave the nozzle open close the tap, coil your hose up. Theres plenty of cheap hoses that are fine now.

T. Just realized I bought a 150$ hose last year and just realized I'm treating it like shit talking to you.

I gotta get one of those big hose boxes

[Anonymous No.1648775]

>>1639266
Are you this angry all the time? I can't even imagine getting mad because of some plants.

[Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1648829]

>>1648775
Listen, if you had those shitty vines trying to crawl onto your citrus trees and powerlines, you would be pissed too. Plus they have something in them that makes you all itchy and burns so when I take any power tools to them, I need to race to the shower afterwards. The plants are straight evil.

We get those little bitter melon vines too. In the front yard I have tal hedges between my yard and his yard and the thin vines come creeping in from his side so I need to rip those out every couple months as well.

Having a well kept house in a well kept neighborhood but living next to that one neighbor who is lazy and Jewish is one of the most frustrating things one can experience. At least he’s not black, although I don’t think those people are allowed in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.1650360]

How do I unfuck my yard. My neighbors yard is letting ivy in through his fence and into my yard and has spread like aids through a gay community. I'd like to not use Roundup. I have a decent tiller but won't that just out the ivy into the ground without killing all of it?

[Anonymous No.1650457]

>>1631148

We live in floirda so get that gay st. augustine grass. I nuked the whole thing with roundup and replaced with mulch. It's not as weird as you'd think as we have a small yard being at the beach

[Anonymous No.1651468]

>>1636102
>>1636167
>>1636387
>>1636411
This is why you plant only the high end expensive vegetables/fruits. Stuff like spinach, peppers, strawberries, radishes, turnips and tomatoes. You'll save boatloads especially on peppers and spinach, plus you can freeze stuff. I'll be dammed if I'm gonna waste labor on fucking potatoes and green peas. Also helps to learn canning especially if you're growing lots of tomatoes or berries.

[Anonymous No.1652108]

So much anger.

To the anon with the mess in their yard, I've dealt with something similar. I feel your pain and rage.

Okay for those having trouble establishing a lawn here's some tips.

* buy the right grass seed for your area. Seed at least in the spring , try to seed in the fall. Water every day for two weeks at least an inch for new seed.

* Fertilize in the spring and fall, if you can only do one, do the fall. Don't fertilize too much you'll burn your grass and turn it yellow. It's better to underfertilize than over.

* test your soil PH. If you are too acidic (says on the kit) you probably have something like oak leaves. Be sure to clear these quickly in the fall and don't mulch them into your grass.You can remove acidity with plain manure, or preferably horse manure. Cow manure or fresh soil can help to slowly bring a soil to base back to neutral.

* Check for pests. Grubs love new grass and often leave areas yellow. Check by cutting up a section of grass and turning it over. In the spring you'll see white grubs. These turn into beetles. You can combat this with ladybugs and nematodes, both available online. The ladybugs only stay in the area as long as there's bugs for them to eat. Nature's Good Guys is a brand we've had good luck with for natural pest treatment.

* Watering longer more infrequently encourages deeper root growth. This means in times of drought you'll need to water less.

* Mulch your grass. It's free fertilizer.

* A new yard from seed or a repair job can take a few years to be fully established depending upon soil.

* if you have automatic watering (highly recommended) water before sunrise. This allows the water to seep into the ground before it gets hot and when it isn't raining allows it to dry throughout the morning preventing rot. Overnight watering can encourage rot and daytime watering in some cases encourages burning but mostly just causes the water to evaporate before getting into the ground.

[Anonymous No.1652553]

>>1636167
I'm a renter, I mow my lawn atleast twice a week. Fuck no mow ducks.

[Anonymous No.1655242]

>>1648570
Still have fairy rings, and fertilized it 9 days ago.

Only watered twice in the last month, unusual for July.

[Anonymous No.1655244]

>>1652108
Sage advise. 5 and 6 esp

[Anonymous No.1656628]

>>1636167
Saying someone should buy something on a
do
it
yourself
board. I believe this isn't bait.... but gosh darn.