🏡 Better Homes Lawn Lords and Garden Gentlemen

[DanJ]

Mainly because of the mulching. The dual blade system on the Honda’s really mulch the grass much better than the Toro. I will miss the time saved by the Toro but in the long run the lawn will look better with the Honda. Plus the Honda will last 20 years.

That makes sense. Most of the lawn You tubers I watch side discharge with the time master because it doesn’t mulch that great.

 

[Unitsn4]

Have a small area to maintain. I need a drop spreader. Was going to get the Scotts brand, but the reviews are more negative than positive. Don't want to spend a ton. Any suggestions?

 

[DanJ]

Have never really used a drop spreader. If it’s anything like the rotary spreaders, half the negative reviews are from idiots who can’t read instructions.

 

[DanJ]

 

[Blood on Blood]

Have a small area to maintain. I need a drop spreader. Was going to get the Scotts brand, but the reviews are more negative than positive. Don't want to spend a ton. Any suggestions?

Scotts will do what you need.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Yea, They're all plastic now-a-days. They'll break/crack after a season or two of usage anyway. That is unless you're popping for some commercial grade one

 

[Chester Copperpot]

My yard currently would give all of you an aneurism. I'm tired of trying to wrangle the weeds and clover shit and purple flowers and other horseshit.

So away it grows.

That's my contribution to this thread.

 

[DanJ]

Those wild violets (purple flowers) are tough to kill too. If it’s that bad you could always roundup the whole lawn, scalp the shit out of it, and then seed again. Kind of a lot of work. I want to redo my entire front yard but have too much stuff going on in back to tackle both at the same time.

 

[GTvert90]

?? My neighbors yard is littered with dandelions and it's starting to creep into mine. Anywho, so I come home one day my fiancee goes you know those white things in the yard you blow... I stopped her and said you blew dandelion seeds all over the yard?! Yeah.. she didn't know what they were so my daughter and her were out there blowing a bunch around ?‍

 

[DanJ]

My wife threatens me with that frequently.

 

[Stink Star]

Seriously is it that hard to avoid dandelions though? I put down step one in the early spring and that takes care of 99% of them. Then I just spot spray any others that pop up with spectracide and they are dead in a day or 2. And my neighbors lawn is mostly weeds so it’s not like I don’t have them blowing in my yard

 

[NOMIEZVR4]

scotts step 2 did a pretty solid job of killing off the weeds in my yard

 

[The Beast]

I’m not sure if this is good or not but I have not seen any weeds this year in my yard and I usually pick them by hand. I’ve been mixing in my spreader
Milorganite
Weed and feed Left over from last year it’s either menards or from blains farm fleet cheap brand.
Scott’s turf builder all mixed in the spreader

 

[DanJ]

The only real problem is that if you like the results you have no idea what the blend is . I’m using a synthetic fertilizer with bio solids mixed in and it sounds like that’s essentially what you’ve blended up plus some weed and feed. This video goes way more in depth than anyone probably cares to go, but sheds some scientific light on why milorganite shouldn’t be the only product you use throughout the year.

 

[Blood on Blood]

An option for some

 

[Blood on Blood]

 

[CMNTMXR57]

The Echo I have (SRM225) has the SpeedFeed head which you just insert the amount of line you want through the holes head, then twist it until it's all pulled in. It's really painless. No dissassembly, spools to mess with or anything.

The downside is, if you're trimming over uneven area, say a rock filled area, as the trimmer bounces around, it's constantly feeding new line, wasting it...

I also don't use the Echo "Cross-Fire" line anymore. Nothing was wrong with it, but I found this stuff at Home Depot that is a line with a protective wrap around it. BFD, right, but this line is like a hot knife through butter, last longer than due to that additional wrap, but the big thing is my speed in trimming. I can fly down the fenceline with this stuff. The Echo line needed more time to cut.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Also, Weiss hit up both houses this week;

Step 3: Late Spring Performer Plus Weed Control
-Organic Based Fertilizer 25-0-5
-40%XCU 40% Biosolid/2fe, 2.8lbs applied per 1000 square feet
-Weed Control Liquid Application Escalade 2
-Manufacturer Nufarm US
*.75 ounces per thousand square feet, ai%: 2,4-D - 39.53%, Fluroxypyr - 5.90%, Dicamba 4.10%

 

[Outlaw]

Yea, They're all plastic now-a-days. They'll break/crack after a season or two of usage anyway. That is unless you're popping for some commercial grade one

Go to Russo or a similar commercial landscape distributor when they have an auction and buy a good commercial spreader for $80 or so because they are insanely expensive new. Heavy duty composite or stainless hoppers, sealed gear systems with grease fittings, foam filled tires with grease-able bearings... some of ours we’ve been using for 5+ years regularly and they saw at least that commercially prior to our use.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Didn't know they had auctions TBH. Yea, that $512 price tag is why I've stuck with the cheap Scott's one, fo as often as I use it.

 

[Outlaw]

Totally understandable lol. I bought mine for like $80 at an auction years ago and it’s still mint. I grease it every spring. I’ve even been bad about leaving it outside for extended periods.

If you search for them on marketplace sometimes you get lucky with one that somehow ended up with a random person that doesn’t know their cost.

 

[Outlaw]

I’ve got my new grasshopper really dialed in now. New gator blades installed and deck height set at 3”. Did a service on it at the same time. I’ll still probably end up selling it but for the time being it is a pleasure to use.

Don’t mind the lawn. Work in progress after 5+ years of neglect and our current drought.

 

[m_dogg]

Those wild violets (purple flowers) are tough to kill too

I hate those fuckers, roots tough to pull out.

 

[Blood on Blood]

I’ve got my new grasshopper really dialed in now. New gator blades installed and deck height set at 3”. Did a service on it at the same time. I’ll still probably end up selling it but for the time being it is a pleasure to use.

Don’t mind the lawn. Work in progress after 5+ years of neglect and our current drought.

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how big is the lot?

 

[DanJ]

I hate those fuckers, roots tough to pull out.

Anything with Triclopyr in it should do work on those. I’ve got some new ones that popped up so I may just spike my normal weed b gon type concentrate with a little Triclopyr and spray everything with it.