🏡 Better Homes Lawn Lords and Garden Gentlemen

[Fish]

Don’t necessarily have to aerate to seed. Just get a garden weasel or even a stiff rake and rough up the soil, put seed down, and go over it lightly again to get some seed to soil contact. Covering with some peat moss or similar will help keep it moist and the birds from eating it all.

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Thats what I was using. It took me a few minutes to get the small area done. Then again I was trying my damndest since the area really has lots of weeds and crabgrass there instead of grass and it was legit trying to pull it up.

Only called it an aerator since thats what the label on the little cardboard piece hooked to it says. I did leave it attached just in case I didnt want to keep it.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I find the tines on the garden weasel (well mine anyway) clogs up too much if the soil is damp. So you will want to do it with the ground is a little more dry.

 

[Fish]

I find the tines on the garden weasel (well mine anyway) clogs up too much if the soil is damp. So you will want to do it with the ground is a little more dry.

Good to know. Never used one and part of me thought maybe the damp soil would have been better so I just went at it after spraying the weed and crabgrass killer.

 

[Fish]

Pushed the seeding to another time. Spent over an hour getting the edge back on the sidewalk.

 

[DanJ]

You can do it in spring. Just have to get them down early and be religious about the watering if it’s hot. You have an edger or did you have to really dig at it with a string trimmer?

 

[Fish]

You can do it in spring. Just have to get them down early and be religious about the watering if it’s hot. You have an edger or did you have to really dig at it with a string trimmer?

I have an edger attachment for my Ryobi expand it head. Way easier than just the string trimmer. Although I should use the string trimmer for my driveway since it’s asphalt and not concrete.

 

[DanJ]

I kind of wish I had spent more and got a trimmer that did both. I only use my stick edger a few times a year, but have to dig my poverty black and decker corded edger out then.

 

[Fish]

No way would I be able to get away with using a corded anything for my yard. ??

Which sucks cause I would just do the sunjoe dethatcher and it was on sale for $88 or something stupid last week.

It is nice for sure. I seem to always edge when the soil isn’t dry so it gets jammed up and I have to walk around with a screw driver to clear the dirt out though.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Have zero issues with my Echo straight shaft trimmer in terms of edging. It does better than my actual edger did. No special attachments or anything .095 line and some fancy spiral core string from Home Depot and it knifes through anything. That string also allows quicker work for normal trimming vs. the stock Echo Cross-fire line.

 

[Stink Star]

Yea I use my ego trimmer for edging. I used to have a dedicated 4 wheel edger but lent it to somebody when I lived in a townhome and never got it back. That thing ruled

 

[Stink Star]

Love it

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Did another application of lawn bug killer today. Was wondering how I was going to get it all watered in order to dissolve it for soil penetration, so it would start to work. The neighbor's lawns are already starting to get torn up by skunks looking for grubs.

Thanks Mother Nature! (sorry for farting outside and contributing to greenhouse gases)

 

[Fish]

Did another application of lawn bug killer today. Was wondering how I was going to get it all watered in order to dissolve it for soil penetration, so it would start to work. The neighbor's lawns are already starting to get torn up by skunks looking for grubs.

Thanks Mother Nature! (sorry for farting outside and contributing to greenhouse gases)

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Luckily I think the skunks are only digging in my mulch that we eventually want to replace anyway. Don’t see anything in the grass but I do see an asshole skunk nightly on my doorbell cam and he was in my yard one night when I took out the garbage.

I honestly should just take a day off soon and work exclusively in the yard.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I have small areas that are dug up (dots?) in our cypress mulch, but that's just the squirrels hiding their food for winter. Most of which I've given them

 

[Fish]

I have small areas that are dug up (dots?) in our cypress mulch, but that's just the squirrels hiding their food for winter. Most of which I've given them

I’m opposite. After catching one of the assholes in the house last year, I’m trying my best to keep them away. Bout to buy a pellet gun if they don’t start taking the hint.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I’m opposite. After catching one of the assholes in the house last year, I’m trying my best to keep them away. Bout to buy a pellet gun if they don’t start taking the hint.

You're not supposed to let them in to your house. j/k



My house is pretty well sealed up. I used to get raccoons on the roof but after removing the tree they were using (a small young tree that never should have been planted 2' from the house) the problem went away. Also, they really don't like getting wet. Hit them with a hose a few times and they'll stop coming around.

 

[Fish]

You're not supposed to let them in to your house. j/k



My house is pretty well sealed up. I used to get raccoons on the roof but after removing the tree they were using (a small young tree that never should have been planted 2' from the house) the problem went away. Also, they really don't like getting wet. Hit them with a hose a few times and they'll stop coming around.

Ohh I’ll get them wet alright.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Squirrels are tearing up my yard too. I have put out my electronc rat trap (which works on squirrels too). 6,000 volts outta fix that problem.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Endless black walnuts and acorns in my yard from a couple big walnut trees 8 oaks over 60’ tall. Squirrels give me free aeration.

I rake up the areas they’re blanketing so it doesn’t kill the grass and leave the rest.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Picked up one of these yesterday too. Way too much of a PITA getting leaves into yard waste bags Trying to stuff them manually

Leaf Easy Plastic Leaf and Lawn Chute LELLCP - The Home Depot

The Leaf and Lawn Chute is a tri-fold sheet constructed of high-density, corrugated plastic. This 100% plastic item, forms into a 3 sided box shape and designed to help keep a 30 gal., paper yard waste

www.homedepot.com

 

[PANDA]

I do my own weekly mowing but always paid a landscaper to do fall cleanup. A few hundred was worth it to me for them to make the leaves gone. Just had to make sure they didn't just blow them into the river.

I had some sorta tree that left tons of "apples" that I was told were walnuts. The tree makes a huge mess. Filled up like half a garbage bin per week sometimes. I can understand your frustration.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I put out 20-30 yard waste bags of leaves 3 times last year before snow fell. And I still had another 20-30 bags worth piled up in the garden by the time they stopped taking yard waste for the year

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I’m going to get some quotes on fall clean up this year. It’s going to be ridiculous though and I’ll cheap out.

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[DanJ]

Picked up one of these yesterday too. Way too much of a PITA getting leaves into yard waste bags Trying to stuff them manually

Leaf Easy Plastic Leaf and Lawn Chute LELLCP - The Home Depot

The Leaf and Lawn Chute is a tri-fold sheet constructed of high-density, corrugated plastic. This 100% plastic item, forms into a 3 sided box shape and designed to help keep a 30 gal., paper yard waste

www.homedepot.com

Those are a must. I consider myself fairly intelligent, but had to watch a YouTube video to figure out how to fold that thing the first time I used it. Something about it is very counter intuitive to me.