Lawn Care

[WillieWatanabe]

My next door neighbor just came by and mowed a lazy path around my yard with a John Deere riding mower. He then loaded it back on a trailer and left.  He has a tiny ass yard so he normally has a push mower.

I dont dont get it

me neither. I've never talked to the guy. I think im getting trolled.

[slobber]

Does your lawn need to be mowed?


Gonna win 'em all!

[slobber]

You may have just been zapped.


Gonna win 'em all!

[wetwillie]

You missed a pretty great oppy to shoot him for trespassing

[WillieWatanabe]

Does your lawn need to be mowed?


Gonna win 'em all!

not really. I was planning on mowing tomorrow though.  I live in a shitty neighborhood with way worse yards.

[GoodForAnother]

What is the best time of year to lay St. Augustine sod in Louisiana? And how much is just the right amount of watering once you put it down?

in theory you can do it whenever. I have St Aug that's thin in spots and have gone back and forth between just overseeing with a tall fescue and blending them (I think this will probably look like crap?  idk) or just putting in new sod. from what I've read online (I'm in Texas) the best time to lay warm season sod like St Aug is in spring, but really it can be done as long as it isn't frozen. personally I'm probably going to lay sod or overseed with fescue this fall.

[slobber]

Do not plant fescue in the St Aug. jmo.


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[GoodForAnother]

that's what I thought :(

it would just be easier and I'm lazy. I'll probably just throw some sod down in a month or two.

[Asteriskhead]

I still haven't mowed the backyard since may

I did this as well and then when I went to mow my mower freaked the eff out. 0 out of 5 stars.

I'll try when it gets down to like 60 degrees

some lady in Ohio went au naturale for her yard. her neighbors are pissed, but she has lots of cool butterflies and bees. it was on all things considered yesterday. i thought of you.

[slobber]

I still haven't mowed the backyard since may

I did this as well and then when I went to mow my mower freaked the eff out. 0 out of 5 stars.

I'll try when it gets down to like 60 degrees

some lady in Ohio went au naturale for her yard. her neighbors are pissed, but she has lots of cool butterflies and bees. it was on all things considered yesterday. i thought of you.

take it to the stupid crap on Facebook thread. This is for real lawn conversations.


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[sys]

i'd love to do that.

[Panjandrum]

I still haven't mowed the backyard since may

I did this as well and then when I went to mow my mower freaked the eff out. 0 out of 5 stars.

I'll try when it gets down to like 60 degrees

some lady in Ohio went au naturale for her yard. her neighbors are pissed, but she has lots of cool butterflies and bees. it was on all things considered yesterday. i thought of you.

We have a few bushes in our front yard that we haven't clipped or trimmed just to see how big they'd get.  They don't look bad or anything.  I have no idea what they are because they preceded us.

Anyway, for a few weeks this summer, at any given time, we probably had over a dozen bees and a dozen butterflies on these bushes right in front of our front door and dining room windows.  The kids (and me) just liked standing there and watching them through the windows.  Drove the dog nuts, though.

[Panjandrum]

my foundation guy told me a french drain is like $30/foot.  I'm just going to build my own.

He quoted 130', so based on your guy's price, that is about $3900.  I guess he wants to do some more smooth, decorative gravel which will increase the cost but decrease the likelihood that my children will become injured if they fall on it.  Maybe my guy isn't too far off.  We're still going to get another couple of quotes.

My house kind of sits on a slope, so it's about 30' from my foundation.  But it just pools in my backyard along the fence.  It's annoying as hell. Our backyard is big but effectively worthless because it's a mosquito infested swamp land.

French drain is in.  Took them a while to get to it with the wet summer, but the last rock was delivered today.  Got a pretty nice system in place where they connected my sump pump and down spouts into the drain.  Multiple catch basins and a grate to get the biggest amounts in the lowest spot.  They even were able to keep some of the trees and plants that we had put in the area around the dry creek bed.  They also leveled out my yard in a couple of spots and did seed and hay to help with the revitalization. 

We also had them clear out a bunch of crap under our deck (it's was just a 200 sq. ft. mud and weed trap), do some steel edging, weed barrier, and decorative rock.   That looks really nice now, too.

All in all, it was $5900.  But they pretty much redid my entire backyard.

Mowing tonight to clean and tidy everything up, but really happy with how it all turned out.  Can recommend 4T Total Lawn care. 

Not that anyone probably cares, but after the rain yesterday, my yard was damp in some spots, but dry overall.  This project, thus far, was a huge success.  Major, major difference.

My neighbor to the north of me went to the same company and asked for a quote.  If he gets his drainage figured out, it's going to make an even bigger difference.

[slobber]

Cool pan!

Guys, I have a bunch of flowers and bushes in my yard, and guess what, I also have a bunch of bees and butterflies and other insects as well! Yard, flowers, and bushes all look great!


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[The Big Train]

 

[GoodForAnother]

I just removed a bunch of bushes because they were drying out the soil around my foundation which is bad because Texas

[HerrSonntag]

I thought crabgrass was clumpy-er than that?  I dunno, it looks pretty good if mowed regularly.  Like, its green guys.

So we're saying i actually have entire sections of my yard that are like some sore of crabgrass uni-culture?  Do i need to call science to confirm the amazing all crabgrass yard?

All crabgrass yards don't work because crabgrass is an annual. Just put down per emergent next year and none of it will come back.

Yeah, i realize this.  So now i'm depressed because i am going to need to reseed this fall so i can put down some pre-emergant.   I was talkign with my neighbor and he's interested in splitting a day of verti-slicer rental so i've got that going for me.  Question though, what can i do to help establish new fescue seeds this fall where theres already an established crop of crabgrass?  Plant later in the fall?  Cropp the hell out of the crabgrss before slicing/seeding?

Never tried before, but maybe kill it all now and reseed in like 2-3 weeks? 

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Spot spray roundup on the crabgrass. You don't care if you kill a little fescue because you are going to reseed.


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Anyone got any more suggestions?  Whens a good time to do a fall reseed?  What should I use to clear out my crabgrass?  I was thinking about just cropping the grass down to the dirt but if I need to spray what should I use and how long should I wait to reseed?

For the record... this isn't a small patch that I can spot spray, I'm talking about whole quadrants of the yard.

The light green is crabgrass... there are 3 very old trees on this lot that i'd be nervious about spraying any broad "kill everything" stuff around... like I'm talking about $3k to remove this tree if I kill it, losing a beautiful old tree not withstanding.

[GoodForAnother]

the best time for a fall reseed is in the fall

I got a possible illegal immigrant who removed 7 50 ft post oaks for me last week for $1200 if you want his number

[slobber]

Spraying roundup on the grass will not kill a tree. New seed could be as planted as early as the next day. I would spray the roundup, wait a week so the grass is dead, then scalp those areas nearly to the ground with your lawnmower. Keep the areas wet for the first 10 days or so (water at least 2 if not 3 times a day. Not to create mud, but just to keep the top of the soil, where the seed is, wet.
Would roundup some time by the end of this month.

[steve dave]

I have a couple patches turning yellowish. It seems healthy otherwise. Growing super fast. Too much water? Not enough water? I'm cutting at 3 1/2 about every 5 days.

[CNS]

Kill it all and reseed.

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[Cire]

I have a couple patches turning yellowish. It seems healthy otherwise. Growing super fast. Too much water? Not enough water? I'm cutting at 3 1/2 about every 5 days.

Probably fungus from the wet.

I need to redo my front flower bed.  Have every greeny type small shrubs.  Not much color.  Faces west so gets very hot.

[steve dave]

Can I spray something on the grass or something?

[star seed 7]

the best time for a fall reseed is in the fall

I got a possible illegal immigrant who removed 7 50 ft post oaks for me last week for $1200 if you want his number

How much do suburban texans hate trees

[slobber]

If you have a JDL store nearby, go buy some Armada and a hose end sprayer. It will take you 30 minutes the first time you do it because you will be bitching at me for telling you to do it. Then, about 30 days later it will take you about 10 minutes to spray it. If you do this a couple of times a year, you will basically eliminate lawn diseases.

Alternate option, go by something at home depot for lawn diseases. It probably won't work as well, but you can do this pretty easily.

If you do the JDL option, let me know and I will PM you some details.