Lawn Care

[slobber]

also, going to fall aerate this year for the first time. sod will be about 16 months old so I think it's time. I mean, I'm not personally going to do it but you know what I mean.

Mow shorter before aeration and overseeing.


Gonna win 'em all!

[Reboulet]

SPEAKING OF!: Dobber, my ornamental pear tree has some black spots on some of the leaves. in doing google on it I've discovered it could be almost anything (fungus, bugs, disease, etc.) and basically I have to just see if it goes away or not. any additional input here? should I go ahead and send the mrs. to the landscape place to pick out another tree?

I've noticed the pear tree spots all over my neighborhood, looks like no big deal: http://www.kansas.com/living/home-garden/article31182911.html

[CNS]

Replaced the oil/filter, fuel filter, and air filter on the JD this weekend in prep to aerate in the next week or two.   Turns out I am handy AF.  Who knew?

[steve dave]

SPEAKING OF!: Dobber, my ornamental pear tree has some black spots on some of the leaves. in doing google on it I've discovered it could be almost anything (fungus, bugs, disease, etc.) and basically I have to just see if it goes away or not. any additional input here? should I go ahead and send the mrs. to the landscape place to pick out another tree?

I've noticed the pear tree spots all over my neighborhood, looks like no big deal: http://www.kansas.com/living/home-garden/article31182911.html

hmmm, looks like I did the right thing by doing nothing and ignoring it

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Replaced the oil/filter, fuel filter, and air filter on the JD this weekend in prep to aerate in the next week or two.   Turns out I am handy AF.  Who knew?

I'm going to give a go at a deck spindle.    

[Mikeyis4dcats]

SPEAKING OF!: Dobber, my ornamental pear tree has some black spots on some of the leaves. in doing google on it I've discovered it could be almost anything (fungus, bugs, disease, etc.) and basically I have to just see if it goes away or not. any additional input here? should I go ahead and send the mrs. to the landscape place to pick out another tree?

I've noticed the pear tree spots all over my neighborhood, looks like no big deal: http://www.kansas.com/living/home-garden/article31182911.html

so you're saying I overreacted? 

[CNS]

Replaced the oil/filter, fuel filter, and air filter on the JD this weekend in prep to aerate in the next week or two.   Turns out I am handy AF.  Who knew?

I'm going to give a go at a deck spindle.   

I don't even know what that is

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[WonderMeal]

SPEAKING OF!: Dobber, my ornamental pear tree has some black spots on some of the leaves. in doing google on it I've discovered it could be almost anything (fungus, bugs, disease, etc.) and basically I have to just see if it goes away or not. any additional input here? should I go ahead and send the mrs. to the landscape place to pick out another tree?

Most pear trees planted in subdivisions are planted because they are cheap and grow fast. Unfortunately, they also break pretty easily. A giant limb on a bradford pear across the street from me in a low/medium rain storm a couple of weeks ago.

Even if the black spots aren't a big deal, and it looks like they aren't, I recommend getting rid of the pear while you can and planting any of the varieties in #21-48 or #61-72 on this list:

http://arboretum.unl.edu/documents/Trees%20for%20Eastern%20Nebraska.pdf

Just think--your tree can grow up with Li'l SD!

[Tobias]

good god my bradford pear tree is the biggest piece of crap ever.  it's like 35 feet tall and rains down 5 foot limbs pretty much weekly.  i hope it kills itself before i have to pay someone a shitload to kill it for me

[wetwillie]

And the buds smell like crap in the spring.  All around.terrible tree.

[steve dave]

Im moving

[Dr Rick Daris]

i have a bradford too. it's the only tree in my backyard. when i moved in it was small and i almost took it out myself. now it's big though and just like sd's it has crap all over it. 

[puniraptor]

I have four on one side of my house. They blot out the sun so I can't grow decent grass ACD in that big windstorm a few weeks ago one split in half and fell on my neighbor's 63 Oldsmobile

[slobber]

They are the devil.

[sys]

they're pretty.

[slobber]

they're pretty.

"Oh, they are soooo pretty and they grow sooooo fast! They provide shade right up until the point that they crash on your or your neighbor's car/house!"
THE DEVIL

[sys]

they're pretty.

"Oh, they are soooo pretty and they grow sooooo fast! They provide shade right up until the point that they crash on your or your neighbor's car/house!"
THE DEVIL

are all the flowering pears in fresno bradfords?  i've never noticed this smell people are complaining about.


most trees are assholes.  i'd trade my ash trees and my horrible fig tree for whatever problems the pears cause.  it can't be worse than raining figs down on you and everything you own.

[sys]

maybe the fresno ones are evergreen pears.

[slobber]

they're pretty.

"Oh, they are soooo pretty and they grow sooooo fast! They provide shade right up until the point that they crash on your or your neighbor's car/house!"
THE DEVIL

are all the flowering pears in fresno bradfords?  i've never noticed this smell people are complaining about.


most trees are assholes.  i'd trade my ash trees and my horrible fig tree for whatever problems the pears cause.  it can't be worse than raining figs down on you and everything you own.

I think Fresno has tons of bradford pears. I do not know of this horrible smell either. I just know that they are weak tree-devils that lose branches when somebody coughs.

[sys]

they must be different cultivars of the same species.  most of them i see here don't have the upright, compact growth that the internet says bradfords have.  they're more spread out and shade tree-like.

[puniraptor]

You should be #acking the crap out of those figs. As food.

[CNS]

Yes.  Figs are pretty great. 

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[sys]

You should be #acking the crap out of those figs. As food.

1.  i don't much care for figs, 2.  this variety of fig isn't the best i've encountered, 3.  birds peck holes in them all before they ripen enough for humans to want to eat them.


i'd have to put up netting or something.  too much work for a fruit i don't even like much.

[GoodForAnother]

there's a big movement to tear out Bradford pears in DFW because they're so awful and shitty

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Replaced the oil/filter, fuel filter, and air filter on the JD this weekend in prep to aerate in the next week or two.   Turns out I am handy AF.  Who knew?

hey, how is that tow behind aerator working out anyway?