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Title: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 11:36:13 AM
Unless you live in an apartment- well you know.

Some folks have to make their lawn perfect.
I Never rake leaves. After the winter you mow over them, and it's good mulch.
I don't mow as much as the neighbors. It's not like Grey Gardens s**t. But I got moss on my roof and vines growing up the shed.
But I mow the lawn! And I never mow over cool looking plants or weeds.
Oh yeah. I got a tree down way out back. My  grandson Aiden and his friend picked up all the sticks in the yard and stacked them out back.
But I got a wire cage for roses! And they grow all along the west side of the house.  :smile:
Some field corn stalks pop up on occasion, just because I live in Southwest Michigan.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Alex on May 13, 2022, 11:50:52 AM
I got fed up trying to sort my garden so I am paying someone else to fix it for me this year. It is my least favourite job to do around the house.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 11:58:48 AM
I got flowers around my house. I figure-"hey! Flowers and weeds have been neighbors forever! Before mankind! Who am I to f**k that up?"

(Tell that to the wifey when she tells you to trim the weeds.  :bluesad: It don't work. )


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 13, 2022, 12:15:57 PM
I live in a condo precisely so I will never have to take care of the lawn. I have no interest in lawns or landscaping. When I was a kid I was forced to mow the family lawn despite allergies that made the job extra-miserable for me, and I swore I'd never have one of my own.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 12:18:38 PM
Out back I got a old phone pole with a light on top, and a switch box on the side. I have this old broke down metal windmill kind of thing, which I lean against the light pole. And I can prop a radio on it!


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Trevor on May 13, 2022, 01:02:38 PM
With all the renovating going on where I live, part of my garden flat was knocked down and my garden went with it.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on May 13, 2022, 01:43:40 PM
Been eleven years....
Not sure where to start....

I tried letting the privets take over once, then it took a couple seasons to rip 'em out...
I tried growing flowers a few times, & gave up on that.....
I keep trying to grow fennel & cabbages for the caterpillars....
I've got so dang many of these Budleja Davidi butterfly bushes, that I've run out of room...

I dunno, I wanted a little grove with some privacy & shade....
Some folks think a lawn should look like a golf course.....


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 13, 2022, 10:11:14 PM
 ^ I agree on folks who try to make their yard look like a golf course. I prefer it to look like...ya know, outside. With birds and critters and weeds.
I mow the lawn. I pick up sticks because I'm surrounded by big trees.
I got wild flowers all over, and I don't run them over.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Alex on May 14, 2022, 03:41:37 AM
I want my lawn to look like someone else did all the work.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Trevor on May 14, 2022, 04:04:41 AM
I want my lawn to look like someone else did all the work.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: claws on May 14, 2022, 04:35:20 AM
I live in a condo but we do have a lawn. Per rules everyone should take turns mowing the lawn but I never did, was never told that it was my turn. Never seen any of my condo neighbors mow either so I have no clue who actually cuts the grass.

The lawn is pretty much useless as it is located on the sunny side of the building. There's no natural shade from the stinging sun in summer, that's the reason why people from our building rarely use the lawn for grilling, gatherings or whatever. A canopy would be a must unless you don't mind frying alive in the sun.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on May 14, 2022, 07:36:38 PM
^ I agree on folks who try to make their yard look like a golf course. I prefer it to look like...ya know, outside. With birds and critters and weeds.
I mow the lawn. I pick up sticks because I'm surrounded by big trees.
I got wild flowers all over, and I don't run them over.

I was like that for a number of years.
Neighbors used to get after me, which only made me less inclined to work on it....
Probably my biggest mistake that first year, was thinking I could handle all this with a reel mower....

Since my stepdad passed, I've been trying to get his riding mower...
His son doesn't want it & my mom has a neighbor cut it, but she seems to think I won't use it....


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 14, 2022, 07:50:34 PM
Once Tiana was using the push mower to trim where the riding mower can't cut. She parked it in the yard to get some ice tea. She came out- it was gone! I went to the neighbors, and the Ma came out blithering that her brain dead foster son, who was as big as a boulder and about as smart as one, had a problem. I told this dumb b***h to keep her kid out off my yard or I'll make that brat have a real problem.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 14, 2022, 10:26:47 PM
I don't mow the lawn anymore, but I used to and the whole front lawn on a corner is the curve of a hill.   :lookingup: 
That was good exercise. 
I have oak trees growing on my lot and across the road is about six acres of ungradeable oak forest, a brook is down there which goes out into the Shark River Inlet.  I have seen wild turkeys, deer, foxes. 


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on May 14, 2022, 10:42:46 PM
I get a lot of cardinals...
I had several bird feeders set up, & was getting finches & chickadees & everything, but I haven't been able to afford bird seed this year...


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on May 14, 2022, 10:46:29 PM
I've tried to get some Nandinas to grow where I can see them from my window, but those things are slow to start, I mean years!


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: RCMerchant on May 15, 2022, 11:45:43 AM
I thought about roping a goat to a tree, but you cant't raise farm animals in town. They will eat anything.
But of course you got to feed it. And clear it's s**t. And house it in the bad weather.
Ah, f**k that. Stupid idea.

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I've had goat cheese, which I loved. Of course I was drinking homemade cherry wine .
But it was fantastic.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: El Misfit on May 15, 2022, 05:23:54 PM
My place really doesn't have a giant lawn. The road verge has grass, a tree, sand, and pea pebbles.  The last two are for building up area by the street curb after road and curb work that was recently done.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: Newt on May 15, 2022, 08:01:01 PM
We live on a hobby farm.  Right this minute we are sitting under the trees by a nice fire in the firepit in the front yard;  I guess that'd technically be our lawn.

When we went infor a mortgage the bank considered anything over 2 acres "excessively large lot".  We have 10.24. 

Yes we cut the grass from time to time.  Also have fruit trees (apple, pear, cherry andI want a peach) and berry bushes.  As well as a large vegetable garden.


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2022, 06:36:25 PM
A few years ago, my mom started hiring some guy to mow my lawn for me pretty cheap, & lately she's been getting what she pays for...

So, I haven't looked behind my detached garage in months, where years ago I tried to start some stuff.....

I just inherited some of my stepdad's yard tools & decided to look back there....
This holly tree I've been cultivating for years is missing.....


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: LilCerberus on June 03, 2022, 07:55:49 PM
Well, after meaning to since late April or early May, I finally got that one milkweed & five fennel plants in the ground....

Not too hard, either; they were starting to get potbound....


Title: Re: Your lawn.
Post by: retrorussell on June 03, 2022, 10:12:02 PM
Front lawn: Stops directly at the left edge of my house, where arbor vitae separates my house from the neighbors.  The other side stops at the driveway.  Can be a haven for dandelions if I let them grow.  I try to dig them out or give them Round-Up on occasion when I have time.  Buffalo Bills flag on the flagpole.  Smaller and far easier to mow than the side lawn.

Side lawn: Runs along the right side of my house up to the fence, which cuts off to the sidewalk, the neighbors to the right, and the apartment complex to the south.  Grows like a jungle.  I have to leave mulch when I mow-- the bag isn't holding for some reason.  The fence is overdue for another paint job; got a week off next month so I'll probably do it then.

No back yard at all; almost all deck except for the area around my hot tub, which has lava rocks.  The deck needs re-sealing next month; the crap I used recently did not last.