For sure, I was just thinking that when I cut it saturday. When I'm push mowing the back yard it feels like it's never gonna end lol. 130' wide half acre lot with quite a slope in the back suuuucks
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So do I. Just pop in headphones and put on tunes or podcast and roll around the yard.
Quite a difference from the first few months of new sod to how the house looks now. I basically spent the first 5 months cutting and watering, no weed control or fertilizer. It took a while before I was able to successfully start treating it. I'm by no means an expert on it now, but at least enough to make the lawn look green and full. I do get frustrated when a new type of weed shows up. I'm not very good at identifying what it is or how to treat it. Though having a sprinkler system makes it much easier, and it is reclaimed water, so I think it is cheaper than regular water that comes into the house. When the lawn looks great, I actually enjoy cutting it. When it looks like it did in the first pic, I hated it.
Last year I started some jalapeño and ghost peppers from seed and also a few seed starter trays of echinacea to have some perennials around the house. Well I like these powwow hybrid echinacea as they bloom the first year and are a much deeper fuschia, but they are kind of pricey to buy as plants. Going to be starting 50 of them down here next month. Have seeds in the fridge and all my trays ready to go. Had one harbor freight grow light last year that worked well, so I built this frame out of 1x3 and have 3 of them now. Can raise it up to the ceiling as the plants get bigger. 25 pink echinacea, 25 white, jalapeños, ghost peppers and growing some cayenne as well. Planting green beans also but those will be direct sow outside as they don’t take as long to get going as the peppers do.
Yes. Last year was the first time I had them do the back yard (where our dog is) after ensuring from them that it was pet friendly. They will probably recommend not letting them out shortly after they come, which is fine. With ours, he wouldn't go out until later in the day when we all get home and they're usually here bright and early in the morning.
Same. They were my house today doing the aeration and recovery seeding.
Last year was my first year using them. Lawn was thicker and greener than in many years. This year I have to work on the bare areas in the shade
Really? Now I feel special. 
I saw the guy on the ring camera. I just looked at the email and they did the fertilizer / weed treatment as well. So got all three at once.
I want to say Andy told me they typically do aeration once a year. Spring or fall. I asked them to do fall and spring this year since I hadn't done it in probably 15 years. I really want to give the lawn a good chance at even better results than last year.
I saw the guy on the ring camera. I just looked at the email and they did the fertilizer / weed treatment as well. So got all three at once.
I want to say Andy told me they typically do aeration once a year. Spring or fall. I asked them to do fall and spring this year since I hadn't done it in probably 15 years. I really want to give the lawn a good chance at even better results than last year.
I need to change the oil in my mower and and re-string my trimmer this weekend. My grass is turning green and starting to grow. I already have daffodils starting to bloom around my house.
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