Has anyone found an electric grass clipper that actually cuts grass instead of chewing it? Haven’t found anything to beat the hand clippers and they take too much time and effort.
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Your lawn does look nice. The fescue has deeper roots from what I understand and why it's more drought resistant.The darker green band before the hill in this photo is the grass I’m switching over to. It’s a turf type tall fescue blend.Besides the colors, it holds up well when things dry up.
When we sold the Pain in the Butte Ranch in Durango, I gave away our 20 year old Honda mower and sold the Honda track drive snow blower. Our new home in Sedona has a small crushed granite gravel "lawn" and I don't even own a snow shovel.
In my old age I realized that if you water a lawn to grow grass, you have to mow it. Rinse, repeat, over and over. Never again for me!
The landscaper that installed sod quoted me a price of $140 a month for weekly yard care. Everything except trimming trees and they haul the debris away which potentially means not having to pay for a trash can for yard debris. I never thought I’d pay someone to do my yard but I’m giving it some real thought.
Indeed. It is more like the "hobbies we hate the most"! I would rather hang drywall than manicure a lawn! What a waste of time, water, effort and money, but to each their own. At some time comes wisdom and experience...I'm with you. In fact, I wondered how "lawn care" could possibly be grouped under "Hobbies Outside of Golf"! Since when is lawn care a hobby?
Indeed. It is more like the "hobbies we hate the most"! I would rather hang drywall than manicure a lawn! What a waste of time, water, effort and money, but to each their own. At some time comes wisdom and experience...
Your lawn does look nice. The fescue has deeper roots from what I understand and why it's more drought resistant.
I just came in from throwing some milorganite down. Now that the temps are heating up, it's easier to see the weeds where everything was just green before. I'm not sure I want to mess with feed and weed. I don't really mind some mixed in, I just don't want the bare spots. Hoping mowing it at 3" will keep the grass healthy enough to take over.
Last Fall I seeded with a mix called Old English which, I believe, had perennial ryegrass, a couple of fescues, and Kentucky bluegrass. I'm going to see which grass does the best this summer and probably over seed with that type of grass. Right now, it's not looking too good and there are large areas where the seed didn't take. I just need to get the sprinkler system going to keep what I have and then seed again in the fall.The mix was in fact called "Drought and Wear" before it was renamed "Summer Green Supreme." Milorganite is good stuff. I was just a little (probably excessively) concerned about heavy metals in it, so I limit my use to puttign it down around shrubs as a deer and rodent repellent over the winter. If your lawn is mostly bluegrass, a treatment containing fulvic acid will help the bare spots fill in.
Certainly a fair point. For me, I wish to nurture our grass to the degree that it does not peek up through the landscaping plastic barrier under our crushed granite gravel "lawn" before I douse it with a grass and weed killer. Lawn grass is just a non-native, water sucking invasive weed down here in the desert that costs a lot of time, water, effort and $$$ to deal with, all of which I choose to avoid. I probably spend on the order of less than 10 hours and $10 a year maintaining our yard. YMMV, of course.A lawn is an organic, living thing that can be nutrtured to the degree you wish.
I have a 4 year old Snapper 725 EX and it's been bullet proof. Change the oil once a year and only run non ethanol gas in it.Anyone out there own a newer Snapper mower? I'm in the market for a new walk behind and am curious how they compare to Honda's - which are hard to come by right now.
I had a high vac from the early 80's and it was the same way. I finally gave it away in the mid 90's and it was still running strong. The Briggs engines that come with them seem to have plenty of power. I don't know if they're still assembled here in the US but I might take a closer look at them.I have a 4 year old Snapper 725 EX and it's been bullet proof. Change the oil once a year and only run non ethanol gas in it.
Still a Briggs and Stratton engine and mine was assembled in the US.I had a high vac from the early 80's and it was the same way. I finally gave it away in the mid 90's and it was still running strong. The Briggs engines that come with them seem to have plenty of power. I don't know if they're still assembled here in the US but I might take a closer look at them.
Not that it's a fair comparison, but I still own a 2004 Snapper Snowblower with a 10hp Briggs. It's still running strong after 16 Northern Michigan winters clearing a very large driveway.
I am going to give this stuff a try this summer. It’s supposed to be like malorganite on steroids.
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