Lawncare/Landscape Thread

[BTBaboon]

Yesterday was a big yard work day. Raked out the front landscaping to the soil - we previously had red wood chip stuff there and wanted to go with black mulch, mowed, edged, and then laid mulch.

https://imgur.com/a/XnvyuKD

Grass is as good as I could ask given how hot it had been without much rain until Friday. Going to have to trim the side yard trees before they start growing over the fence too much and probably should have cut back the Crape Myrtle before winter; it’s grown a ton.

[Benny003]

I think I might have been the first person in the neighborhood to mow last week and my front yard definitely needed it. My grass is super green right now (with a few rough spots that need to heal after the winter), which is surprising after how cold April was. Most other neighbor's lawns are still just starting to turn green after we finally warmed up over the last week.

[Benny003]

Originally Posted by BTBaboon

Yesterday was a big yard work day. Raked out the front landscaping to the soil - we previously had red wood chip stuff there and wanted to go with black mulch, mowed, edged, and then laid mulch.

https://imgur.com/a/XnvyuKD

Grass is as good as I could ask given how hot it had been without much rain until Friday. Going to have to trim the side yard trees before they start growing over the fence too much and probably should have cut back the Crape Myrtle before winter; it’s grown a ton.

That is looking good. We're still waiting for the leaves to sprout around here. Landscape is still just barely waking up from winter.

[BTBaboon]

Originally Posted by Benny003

That is looking good. We're still waiting for the leaves to sprout around here. Landscape is still just barely waking up from winter.

Yeah, it’s wild after having lived my entire life in the North. The Azaleas bloomed in mid March and dropped everything by late April. They were nice a full again this year: https://imgur.com/a/OnkEjj3

[GSUdawg521]

Yeah I just noticed our azaleas were back to green all of a sudden. Now our hydrangeas are starting to bloom.

I gotta do some weeding too. Looking forward to the lilies we have by the street, but AT&T dug up that planter putting in fiber recently so not sure how they're gonna look.

[M. Steng]

Scrocks and Babs- couple of good looking properties!

Here's some shots I took a little while ago after watering the flowers/washing off the front walk. Really happy with the way things are looking around here. Crazy to think that like 80% of this stuff wasn't here this time last year.

https://imgur.com/a/0BBgnob

[Beefsteak1138]

Looks awesome, Steng! I really need to up my landscaping game.

[M. Steng]

Thanks Beefs. This is the first full growing season for a lot of these so I'm really excited to see where we're at this time next year. I just planted a dogwood yesterday (in between the two azaleas on the right side of the front door--a little difficult to tell from the photos I posted), so I'm really looking forward to seeing that grow over the next few years as well.

I also definitely have an addiction to planting flowers...I think we're already in for about $300 worth of annuals and we are planning on heading back to the store next weekend to see if they've put anything new out

[drakan]

Steng wins the thread. Sorry guys.

[Beefsteak1138]

Originally Posted by drakan

Steng wins the thread. Sorry guys.

Are you sure??? Look at this lushness.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c8d53d2aa9.jpg

[Beefsteak1138]

I kid. Steng wins.

[drakan]

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

I kid. Steng wins.

Your lawn def has the lushness. Better than I could do. I am a sucker for stone walls though.

[M. Steng]

Beefy taught me everything I knew about lawncare for the first few years I was a homeowner

[Beefsteak1138]

I think I just said to use Milorganite.

Edit: Nice domination line on one side of my property.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6ecd0cacd4.jpg

edit 2: Sorry for the potato quality pic.

[Rodey]

#nomowmay

[scrock25]

I would fuck Mike’s retaining wall.

[M. Steng]

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

I think I just said to use Milorganite.

Edit: Nice domination line on one side of my property.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6ecd0cacd4.jpg

edit 2: Sorry for the potato quality pic.

Sometimes the best advice is the simplest!

Originally Posted by Rodey

#nomowmay

https://giphy.com/gifs/ha-13OYNXi0uTM6vS

Originally Posted by scrock25

I would fuck Mike’s retaining wall.

Oh trust me, it would fuck you right back buddy

[M. Steng]

My lawn is pure sex right now

https://ibb.co/1Ks4HbB
https://ibb.co/JQFvD7j

[Bearclaw_]

Being a fellow dad, my favorite part is the chalk hop scotch.

Ps nice lawn

[Foreverford05]

Originally Posted by M. Steng

My lawn is pure sex right now

https://ibb.co/1Ks4HbB
https://ibb.co/JQFvD7j

Would stick my dick in that lawn.

[Spell On Me]

Very nice Stengy!. Got the fourth mow of the season in yesterday. Starting to look pretty good.

[Benny003]

Front yard is not looking too bad for being just the second mow of the season.

https://i.imgur.com/0quCUYv.jpg

[scrock25]

Feels good, man.

https://imgur.com/gallery/4hTRCID

[GSUdawg521]

Good looking lawns gents

I mowed the front, took down a pair of big branches on the left tree that were overhanging the driveway, and gave some much needed attention to some weeds in that planter bed and the other one by the street. My orange lilies are starting to come in by the street but they're kind of a mess because of at&t digging up that bed a few months ago.

https://ibb.co/x2WbQDq

[Beefsteak1138]

Nice mid-week mow. Started a "workout" on my apple watch, these are the stats of my mow:

49 minutes, 09 seconds
1.62 miles
457 calories
151 bpm average heart rate
128ft elevation gain

[Benny003]

I've often wondered how far I actually walk while mowing. Maybe I should borrow my wife's Apple Watch.

[prdstmnky36]

All I have is my phone, but my yard is good for about 9-10k steps, plus another 1K blowing / trimming.

I had over 20,000 steps just doing yard work on Saturday…love it!

[prdstmnky36]

Originally Posted by prdstmnky36

Added a couple toys to my Ryobi lineup today. Bought a 2000 PSI electric pressure washer, and a nice battery powered pole saw. Took the saw for a test drive when we got home and works great, lopping nice size dead branches 15’ up from the ground, will be super useful year round!

My Ryobi battery / charger situation is out of control. I now have 2A, 4A, and 6A batteries in rotation, and 4 chargers?!?

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

Interested in how the pressure washer works. I recently bought the hedge trimmer attachment and was little disappointed with it compared to my battery powered black and decker.

Finally got the pressure washer out yesterday, I like it and will definitely get use out of it.

I only used the high pressure nozzle, which is just water (no soap). It is pretty powerful, enough to clean concrete and the like. Our deck is shitly painted (ughhhhh) and had a lot of dirt and mildew. Took that off easily, as well as stripping a bunch of paint, which other than a giant mess was fine by me as something needs to be done with it. I spent about 15 mins on one deck board and was able to get almost all the paint off it so it is pretty powerful.

We also have 2 privacy walls on an upper deck portion that is just pressure treated wood. Looks very worn and dirty, gray / black in color. I took the pressure washer to a small section of that and boom - all that nasty dirt is gone and have some decent looking wood underneath.

Super light weight, pressure hose is a decent length (15-20'), power cord is very long and heavy duty (though does have a bulky plug due to the protection). Only complaint would be with all those things coming off the unit its easy to get everything all tangled up if you aren't careful - no biggie, thats expected with corded tools. Will be breaking it out again next chance I get.

[GSUdawg521]

Tree guy quoted me about a month ago to take down one cypress in the back yard that was kinda dying, and also more importantly the BEAST holly in the front that I've been wanting to take down since we moved in. Decided to go ahead, so emailed him last night, he gets back to me and says he'll be out this morning, so that was pretty cool.

They showed up at 7:30am with a big truck, and another pulling a wood chipper, followed by a 3rd with a trailer and bobcat that I don't think was for me but probably their next destination. Probably pissed all the neighbors off getting right to work with chainsaws and chippers going. Had both trees down in about an hour. Sending out the guy sometime later today with the stump grinder for the holly. That thing was fucking massive. When I saw them finally taking the trunk away, it had to be like 24"-30" diameter.

May have some pics later. Once it's done, I have a guy lined up to come do a little drainage work to move the water that puddles up in front of the house when it rains.

[Bearclaw_]

Got a sweet mowjob earlier. Lawn looking really good. Pure sex.

@GSU - hear that. I had a giant tree taken down first year I moved in and it was awesome. Hated that thing.