The fuck?

3/26/2020 10:59:56 PM

3/26/2020 11:08:46 PM

Could you expound on your opinion, Mr. 1985?

3/27/2020 10:49:19 AM

I'm talking fence to fence grass. I'm talking weed and feed. I'm talking hose spray and pray on a Hot summer day.


Leave some flowers and shrubs for the birds and the bees.

3/27/2020 1:44:56 PM

you can have the bees. I prefer to keep them away on account of a deadly allergy.

3/30/2020 6:34:54 AM

it's really odd because I would have never seen myself becoming this way, but I'm definitely a yard guy.

I get serious about my fescue and even pay to have the city property surrounding mine seeded, so it looks nice and minimizes the weeds that cross over into my own lawn. I also lay down about 13 cubic yards of mulch each year and refresh some of my stone.

If you don't have a nice yard, you're not living right.

3/30/2020 8:01:32 AM

I agree. Yards are the worst. I had to mow mine for the first time this weekend. No let up until October now, except during times of severe drought stress.

3/30/2020 9:12:18 AM

^which is basically August until October.

The only thing that irks me about it is that I don't have an irrigation system, so every late Sept/early Oct I go out there and rotate 3 sprinklers on and off twice a day every day for 3 weeks. That's the part I hate the most.

3/30/2020 9:27:50 AM

There's a pretty strong argument that "yards" in this context are pretty bad for the environment

That said i have one

3/30/2020 9:43:24 AM

^ ya that's my argument. I mean it's nice to have a small patch of grass to let on, but why have anything bigger than that?

3/30/2020 9:51:21 AM

I have a pretty large yard. this year I'm just saying fuck it and letting it weed up. I'm mowing, just not watering, weed + feed, etc. Got enough other shit to going on right now that a green lawn is at the bottom of my list.

3/30/2020 10:17:32 AM

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3/30/2020 10:22:32 AM

this is why I maintain a lawn.

3/30/2020 11:00:55 AM

Holy shit that is some nice fescue.

Is the temperature difference in Richmond cool enough to make it survive better through summer or are you just good? Are you cutting it at 3" instead of 4"? With it tightly packed like that 3" can look really nice. I have some bare spots I try to hide so I keep it at 4".

My big thing is an ongoing battle of when to do my pre-emergent vs when to fill in the bare spots in spring. I need it warm enough to sprout in the bare spots but don't want it to be so warm that I'm too late for pre-emergent.

3/30/2020 3:27:05 PM

more than anything else it's the time of the year. It will look like shit in july.

some of it may be 17 years of wrestling with fescue and getting fairly decent at it. but I do have other sections of the yard which are works in progress.

I haven't irrigated yet this year. I typically cut at 4", but in the early spring, I cut a bit lower so i can top dress areas that either need leveling or have shitty soil.

3/30/2020 3:31:16 PM

Highly manicured lawns are dumb as hell. Don't @ me.

3/30/2020 3:53:41 PM

Plants > grass imo but whatever

3/30/2020 7:19:01 PM

i got 100% natives, pretty cool program here in oregon

https://backyardhabitats.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0s76g7DD6AIVBsZkCh38-gfqEAAYASAAEgJBRPD_BwE

3/30/2020 7:42:29 PM

yards with at least a little biodiversity have a lot more character

3/30/2020 7:51:31 PM

Quote :

"Sept/early Oct I go out there and rotate 3 sprinklers on and off twice a day every day for 3 weeks. That's the part I hate the most."

this is a game changer.



https://www.lowes.com/pd/Melnor-Digital-Hose-End-Timer/1000146765

I bought 3 of these a few years back (or something very similar) and let them do their job after reseeding. It's glorious not having to do anything with sprinklers except set them up once.

3/30/2020 8:11:24 PM

^they stole muh idear!

damn I wish that thing was around when I built this:

3/31/2020 6:14:05 AM

I have a fescue lawn, but I also have an 800 square foot garden that I hope provides some degree of wildlife sanctuary.

3/31/2020 2:04:00 PM

yes, maintaining a large, heavily-manicured lawn is silly(imo), unnatural and not environmentally-friendly.

I have a decent-sized lawn, and i may put down some fescue seed, some weed and feed and spray some weeds in patches once a year or so, but I don't water it, and it has quite a few clovers/weeds throughout, and I'm fine with that (i did try aerating it last year, since it's pretty compact (lots of clay), but I probably won't do that again, at least for a few years). I could do without the voles and yellow-jacket tunnels though.

3/31/2020 2:17:13 PM

a BIG trick to having a nice fescue lawn is soil prep at the beging. unfortunately most people live in these suburban communities that we stripped down to bare earth and it was compacted into a concrete like soil after that. some of the best lawns i've ever installed we either total fill OR on projects where the homeowner let us rip the subgrade with heavy equipment down 12-18" deep. The amount of root grown on those is incredible vs what most people get (most builders just roll sod down on hard pan) no tilling nothing.

3/31/2020 5:56:03 PM

btw upgrade your controller if you want wifi access. been installing these the last year and i LOVE it. you can put a flow meter on them too and have down to the gallon usage.

https://www.hydrawise.com

3/31/2020 5:57:41 PM

This thread is about how lame lawns are. not how to make better lawns. Plant natives - it brings the native bugs and the native birds.

3/31/2020 6:00:58 PM

I hate grass and am extremely allergic to it. At my old house, I put in fake grass so my dog would have a place to run and shit but I wouldn't have to water and weed it.





I'm going to do a bit more work on my new property before putting it in, but the plan is the same.

3/31/2020 6:13:16 PM