***OFFICIAL Lawn and Landscaping Thread***

[loochy]

So, who out there is obsessed with having green grass?

Are you installing a flowerbed and some shrubs?

Do you need a sprinkler system installed?

Do you just want to brag?

Let's talk about lawns in here.

[SAUTO]

The old guy next to me died last year, after his father in law lived there and died two years before that, the FIL was 102 when he went, but both of them spent every waking hours in the yard.


The grandkids own it now and still now it once a week but do nothing else and it still looks AWESOME. I won't even let my dogs or kids set foot on the grass lol.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

No sir. Lawns are for guys who want to put on the headphones, jam some tunes while spending time in the yard away from the wife and kids.

On a good day I can spend 5-6 hours mowing, weed eating, edging, etc.

Good times.

That sounds hideous.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by lewdog

That sounds hideous.

Well that's what we do when you go out and blow the sand off your driveway and cover the snakes and scorpions in the yard.

I love me some lawn mowing time. NOBODY bothers you when you're mowing.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Well that's what we do when you go out and blow the sand off your driveway and cover the snakes and scorpions in the yard.

I love me some lawn mowing time. NOBODY bothers you when you're mowing.

I'm just ****ing with you guys. But really, I don't miss it. I tend to my trees and plants a few times a week with fertilizer if needed, everything is on a drip system for the most part for watering. I blow a few leaves from Nov-Feb since my front yard tree looses them. My cheap ass father always made me use a push mower on our huge yard at home, sledding hill included! 3-4 hours to mow everything. I think it wore out my love of lawn mowing every summer.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by lewdog

I'm just ****ing with you guys. But really, I don't miss it. I tend to my trees and plants a few times a week with fertilizer if needed, everything is on a drip system for the most part for watering. I blow a few leaves from Nov-Feb since my front yard tree looses them. My cheap ass father always made me use a push mower on our huge yard at home, sledding hill included! 3-4 hours to mow everything. I think it wore out my love of lawn mowing every summer.

I'm just messing with you. With my sweating ass over the past few rounds of golf, I might take 101 and 10% humidity over 92 and 60% humidity.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk

Just finished a 300 sqft flagstone patio.

Pictures

[cdcox]

I have foregone the monoculture of blue grass or zoysia in favor of a biodiverse community of native species: ground violets, Taraxacum, moss, Toxicodendron radicans, clover, narrow leaf plantain, Digitaria, and an occasional wildflower. Completely natural, my lawn requires no fertilization thereby avoiding nutrient and pesticide contamination of local waterways via runoff as well as greatly reducing the accompanying carbon footprint associated with fertilizer utilization. My lawn care philosophy also requires zero lawn sprinkling since the native species are well adapted to local precipitation patterns. Competition between species in a low nutrient environment also reduces the growth rate of my meadow, and the concominant need for frequent mowing. The economized mowing schedule reduces noise pollution in the neighborhood and saves me dozens of hours per year put to better use. I endorse this approach to any of you.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by cdcox

I do nothing and let the seeds and weeds grow.

FYP...

Oh, and most years I use the water you save. Thanks...

[cdcox]

Fertilizing = pay money to create more work for yourself that accomplishes nothing

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Fertilizing = pay money to create more work for yourself that accomplishes nothing

I've never considered my lawn "work", if I did I'd get somebody to do it for me.

My lawn may not be the best in the world, but it's the one the kids like to play in, and that's worth the sweat equity I put into it.

[Mr_Tomahawk]

Originally Posted by loochy

Pictures

Meh...this is all I have at the moment. Took the pick last week the day after I finished putting the poly sand down. From my window, in the rain... I obviously need to get out and take better pics.

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[Reerun_KC]

My yard is starting to fill in the dead spots. Some of them were the size of small cars.... Buehler_445 Sr hooked me up with some nasty 24D shit... Buehler_445 said mix it strong.. I nuked the **** out of my yard and it is finally coming back around...

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I'm just messing with you. With my sweating ass over the past few rounds of golf, I might take 101 and 10% humidity over 92 and 60% humidity.

Every day. Is feel like 100 at 10% is equivalent to 83 at 60% on the unbearable meter. Humidity is what makes it miserable. When it gets up to like 110, then it starts to get unbearable in dry climates

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by cdcox

I have foregone the monoculture of blue grass or zoysia in favor of a biodiverse community of native species: ground violets, Taraxacum, moss, Toxicodendron radicans, clover, narrow leaf plantain, Digitaria, and an occasional wildflower. Completely natural, my lawn requires no fertilization thereby avoiding nutrient and pesticide contamination of local waterways via runoff as well as greatly reducing the accompanying carbon footprint associated with fertilizer utilization. My lawn care philosophy also requires zero lawn sprinkling since the native species are well adapted to local precipitation patterns. Competition between species in a low nutrient environment also reduces the growth rate of my meadow, and the concominant need for frequent mowing. The economized mowing schedule reduces noise pollution in the neighborhood and saves me dozens of hours per year put to better use. I endorse this approach to any of you.

Haha you are my hero

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk

Meh...this is all I have at the moment. Took the pick last week the day after I finished putting the poly sand down. From my window, in the rain... I obviously need to get out and take better pics.

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Awesome. That stuff is expensive though. I priced some out for use on some tree rings and a driveway culvert wall decorations.