TJDave wrote:I don't have one, but if you rent one, I'll go halvsies with you!
EDIT: PS, I also have that little trailer you can borrow to haul one in, so you don't have to lift it into a pickup.
Dave that sounds like a good idea!!
Screaming Toylet wrote:Suggestions should you want them. Mow you lawn as short as you can. Kill what is left of your lawn with Round Up or similar herbicide. Wait a week and then use a propane burner to reduce dry veg -- I have a burner it you wish borrow it. . Get the biggest rear tiller you can get -- tillers don't cut sod very well. I have a 3 foot landscape rake if you can to borrow it.
I am always open to suggestions!
Short is definitely not a problem. It's actually part of the problem. The "grass" that is left hardly grows and if it does its patchy and looks like crap - at least in the front yard. Also the area next to the side walk slopes off a foot and is steep enough that the water just runs off of it, so even if I can get the flat part of the yard green there is a foot of brown weeds around the whole yard. We have two little side yard that are more puncture vine (goat heads) than grass and we are VERY tired of them. When you are standing on the front lawn and look down you actually see a lot of dirt. We've raked, thatched, fertilized, thrown more seed out and it still looks like crap.
When we moved in the landlords told us that the previous renter got upset about them not wanting to spend the money to put in a sprinkler system - so they let the yard die - which let the weeds move in. It's been a battle even just to keep it green.
What I thought was cool was also when we moved in the landlord said we could do anything we wanted with the yard. Since then we have done a couple of things, but nothing major as of changes. But I fight with it every year.
Here's a pic I took the other day......
The pink lines are where we are going to put railroad ties. As you can see there is no walkway between the front door and the driveway and there is a drive gate to the back yard that you have to drive across the grass to get to also. We want to put down gravel inside the railroad ties to give ourselves the walkway and a little drive to the gate. The little "island" to the left of what will be the gravel drive to the gate will be a flower bed with a couple of step stones so no one is stepping on my flowers. Across the front of the house to the gate will be flower bed also. We are also putting flower beds in on other side of the house where the two small sections of weeds are now.
So pretty much the plan is to burn the puncture vine with our weed burner and till the rest. I may have to throw some round up or something on the thicker spots in the grass to kill it off.
My goal is to have low maintenance flower beds and grass that looks good and I can walk on in my bare feet.
I probably should drop a note off at the landlords letting them know what we are doing.......lol.
