TIME TO MOW THE LAWN

Wobbie

and, juggler? female pee is the worst.

The Juggler

Wobbie said:

and, juggler? female pee is the worst.

I've only had female dogs. Is this right? I never knew there was a difference.

F Me In The Brain

Company came last week for an estimate, should have dates soon. Keeps raining like this and the first mow will be before they get the yard in shape. Need to have some earth moved and a stump taken care of this year as well. Going to cost!

chadwick

green out there
quite emerald
cutting it will smell up all the lands here in a bit
as will slowly grilling & smoking meats over apple, mesquite, cherry & hickory woods

life's a real bastard

RKCNDY

mowed this weekend, re-seeded.

Some days I swear I want the fake grass turf.

rgambs

Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit.
If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet.
The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol

I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.

All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.

RKCNDY

My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.

I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.

chadwick

rgambs said:

Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit.
If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet.
The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol

I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.

All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.

it appears 'penn & teller's' show 'bullshit' is not free on the old youtube. they did a episode on lawns. every year america spends as much as the entire national product of vietnam on lawns.

rgambs

chadwick said:

rgambs said:

Lawn culture is pretty nutty, the amount of money people spend on grass is nuttier than squirrel shit.
If it isn't wackygrass it can do it's own thing. Be green, grow...that's about it. Lawns are weak ass ecosystems where people squeeze out every wild flower for an outdoor carpet.
The only thing more American would be if people paved their back yards over lol

I have 2 acres of lawn which is an impediment to my time spent growing plants which provide sustenance for my family. Every year I squeeze more lawn out for perennials, brambles, and wildflowers to draw and sustain pollinators. Mow time goes down, food stores go up, and ecosystem thrives.

All that said, the smell of fresh cut grass and the mosquito reduction are two joys of mowing.

it appears 'penn & teller's' show 'bullshit' is not free on the old youtube. they did a episode on lawns. every year america spends as much as the entire national product of vietnam on lawns.

Yowza!!! My neighbor goes nuts...fertilizer, herbicide, mow twice a week with the roller on the back to flatten patterns into the grass, repeat over and over...
It's just grass. His meticulously cared for lawn just looks like a lawn.
It's like a metaphor for American life, caring more for the appearance of a happy life than actually living a happy life...

I want to tell at him, USE YOUR FUCKING TIME AND ENERGY ON SOMETHING WORTHWHILE AND GROW SOME GODDAMN FOOD!

rgambs

RKCNDY said:

My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.

I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.

I don't get it, when I mow the weeds get mowed down with the grass...why do they need removed? 90% of them produce lovely flowers which feed the bugs of you let them get high enough, which doesn't happen if you mow.

RKCNDY

rgambs said:

RKCNDY said:

My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.

I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.

I don't get it, when I mow the weeds get mowed down with the grass...why do they need removed? 90% of them produce lovely flowers which feed the bugs of you let them get high enough, which doesn't happen if you mow.

If I don't keep the weeds out, they will seed in my garden, and then weeds-being weeds-will choke out the plants I DO want to grow. Specifically the veggies.

Edited to add, now that it's spring, it's still raining pretty regularly, so we don't get the luxury of mowing every week. We just got over something like the weather raining for 3 weeks straight.

The Juggler

F Me In The Brain said:

Company came last week for an estimate, should have dates soon. Keeps raining like this and the first mow will be before they get the yard in shape. Need to have some earth moved and a stump taken care of this year as well. Going to cost!

Yeah I'm having a dead tree removed too.

rollings

we have a small quaint yard that we will cut with no problem and that we will plant flowers on the side of with no problem..... there is a brand new Japanese maple tree in the middle which should grow good too, without a problem.

2 neighboring dogs come shit in the grass, those fucks. that's a problem.

chad will enact his nightly sleep apnea machine to go in circles with sod attached thereon to attract the one dog, whose name is LAZARUS, to come run and play. the other dog's name Is ANGEL. I guess that ain't a bad thing to trade to putting blinders on and pretending, real or not, whether there is one more cent necessary to spend on lawn care because there's probably not

rgambs

RKCNDY said:

rgambs said:

RKCNDY said:

My house is bigger than my lawn...I spent so much time making sure the weeds were gone the first year we moved in...but the neighbors don't weed. So now I have weeds in the lawn.

I found a good natural solution to kill the weeds since there are too many to hand pull.

I don't get it, when I mow the weeds get mowed down with the grass...why do they need removed? 90% of them produce lovely flowers which feed the bugs of you let them get high enough, which doesn't happen if you mow.

If I don't keep the weeds out, they will seed in my garden, and then weeds-being weeds-will choke out the plants I DO want to grow. Specifically the veggies.

Edited to add, now that it's spring, it's still raining pretty regularly, so we don't get the luxury of mowing every week. We just got over something like the weather raining for 3 weeks straight.

Ok, that makes sense.
I never considered the eradication of weeds to be a possibility lol. It isn't where I live, but I guess in town it may just be something that can be done.

F Me In The Brain

rollings said:

we have a small quaint yard that we will cut with no problem and that we will plant flowers on the side of with no problem..... there is a brand new Japanese maple tree in the middle which should grow good too, without a problem.

2 neighboring dogs come shit in the grass, those fucks. that's a problem.

chad will enact his nightly sleep apnea machine to go in circles with sod attached thereon to attract the one dog, whose name is LAZARUS, to come run and play. the other dog's name Is ANGEL. I guess that ain't a bad thing to trade to putting blinders on and pretending, real or not, whether there is one more cent necessary to spend on lawn care because there's probably not

I have an old Japanese Maple in the front of my house and it is really a cool looking tree when it blooms. Thing is purple. The rest of the time? Eh, just a tree.

Interesting names for those dogs. Come straight from the fairy tales I learned about as a kid.

chadwick

funny stuff around here

chadwick

rgambs,

back home i had a weed garden of sorts. i also would put weeds in the birdbath. it was the coolest god damn birdbath around. weeds are nothing at all that bothers me... nope, nope & nope. dandelions are beautiful, yellow things against green grass & really neat looking when seeding around the lands.

burning out tree stumps is fun.

the mrs. isn't to found of elephant dung from the neighbors. it's not my cup of tea either. however, growing up surrounded by farms & livestock & outhouses & endless smells of manure & other bad-news fluids & dust.

there's a dr. back home who lives in a elk pasture. his house sits in a muddy ass lot surrounded by elk, elk feed, hay bales & 4x4 truck & tractor ruts. he doesn't care much for lawn mowers

im good to go just a bit.

here's a funny true story for ya,
in the earlier years i worked some farms & drove a manure truck hauling it out to fields & knifing/putting it in the ground as i drove along. we had plenty of customers who owned hog famers. so i pump the pits. i pull up to this high dollar farm with golf course meticulous lawn. i pull up next to the hogs w/ wheels on grass. i get screamed at for being on the lawn.

im thinking to myself, "hey fucker, who the heck? what the frigg? wow?! & you're a dick"
nice golf course for the hogs & cows

the end

The Juggler

chadwick said:

rgambs,

back home i had a weed garden of sorts. i also would put weeds in the birdbath. it was the coolest god damn birdbath around. weeds are nothing at all that bothers me... nope, nope & nope. dandelions are beautiful, yellow things against green grass & really neat looking when seeding around the lands.

burning out tree stumps is fun.

the mrs. isn't to found of elephant dung from the neighbors. it's not my cup of tea either. however, growing up surrounded by farms & livestock & outhouses & endless smells of manure & other bad-news fluids & dust.

there's a dr. back home who lives in a elk pasture. his house sits in a muddy ass lot surrounded by elk, elk feed, hay bales & 4x4 truck & tractor ruts. he doesn't care much for lawn mowers

im good to go just a bit.

here's a funny true story for ya,
in the earlier years i worked some farms & drove a manure truck hauling it out to fields & knifing/putting it in the ground as i drove along. we had plenty of customers who owned hog famers. so i pump the pits. i pull up to this high dollar farm with golf course meticulous lawn. i pull up next to the hogs w/ wheels on grass. i get screamed at for being on the lawn.

im thinking to myself, "hey fucker, who the heck? what the frigg? wow?! & you're a dick"
nice golf course for the hogs & cows

the end

Weeds are the drug dealers of the lawn. They must be eradicated.

Malroth

If I could get rid of my grass, and just have a yard of dandelions, I would. Beautiful flowers.

The Juggler

Malroth said:

If I could get rid of my grass, and just have a yard of dandelions, I would. Beautiful flowers.

Evil, yellow, mother fuckers corrupting my yard. I'm gonna build a wall around my yard and deport all dandelions.

My neighbor's gonna pay for it.