Love it or Hate it ?

I enjoy taking care of my yard. It's about 1/3 acre. Fertilize twice a year, water regularily, eazy peazy japaneezy.

Love it, but just for my kids. I don't use it much any more (unless I'm with the kids; then I do for old times' sake).

ScottHar

I've got Bermuda grass growing, and it's starting to die out where I've got trees growing, and full shade ... Now I've got a muddy mess in a couple of places in my yard. I'm contemplating what to do with those areas.

I used to throw out Rye seed for winter grass, but now I've got a yard service that sprays twice in the winter for crabbgrass, and I feel that will kill any Rye seeds that try to germinate ...

Pablo's version is good, too . . .

Wait, you guys are talking about lawns?

Jet, that spray is an herbacide, but it can't be healthy for all the little critters that make your dirt healthy.

My neighbor's yard is 100% crab grass ... I don't have any crab grass ... My yard is the envy of the neighborhood ... I have no complaints about using pre-emergents . . .

The people that have to best looking lawn around here are the ones that use Chemlawn. Myself, I refuse to use them. The sales people are pushy, rude, and obnoxious. I drop the Scotts 4 step program down (sometimes I skip the summer one when the grass is burned and dry). Our grass looks pretty good considering all my niebhors are weed farmers (and no, not the kind of weed you smoke!)

I don't like taking care of it, I don't have any in our yard.

you call that a yard ?

I tried Scotts for several years and it works, but I got tired of doing it myself ... I use TruGreen, and I've got no complaints ... Our sales staff are nice and courteous.

When they come out to spray, if a week later I still have weeds, then I call them and they come out and spray again ...

re 10

Sure, now you do have to you hold your head at the right angle.

:)))

Jet, maybe the pre-emergent isn't an herbicide. My mistake.

I spray for japanese beetles in June ... that's about it . . . oh, and when the ants get bad, too . . .

Grass? Yeah, I've got some of that growing in my yard but it shares space with anything else that wants to grow there. I particularly love the dandelions. Hell, groundcover is groundcover. If I didn't live within limits of town code I would have very little that I actually mowed, let the rest go wild. Probably sprinkle it with wildflowers and herbs, put in a few rasied beds for veggies.

I'll never understand this lawn culture we have in this country. I sure know one thing -- when I die I won't wish I'd spent more time keep my lawn perfect instead of doing something I really enjoyed. But that's me. Some folks seem to love spending all that time on their lawns. Or all that money having someone pour poison on it. Like I said, I'll never understand it.....

RE#15,

You sound like me. LOL

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

P.S. The only reason I cut mine, is it keeps the bugs down.

A well manicured lawn and landscape increases the value of your home . . .

I like working in the yard. I like digging in the dirt and planting trees, bushes and flowers. It's meditational and I like watching the trees, bushes and flowers grow ...

Plus, when I water my beds, it's cigar time . . .

^ landscaping is a whole 'nuther thing. What I'm referring to is these obsessed folks I see in suburbia with their fertilizers and edgers and scissors and tweezers out there sunup to sundown getting their lawn to look golf course perfect. Not a weed in sight, not a blade of grass over 3.425" tall. Perfectly homogeneous. Perfectly dull.

What a waste of time and effort....... IMNSHO.

RE#17,

I know, but I am trying to buy my neighbors out. LOL

My squalor brings their home values down. j/k

Dave (A.K.A Homebrew)

Scott's fires their people for smoking,(even if they do it at home) I'll never buy any of their products again.