You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by btimbit

I'm Hank Hill when it comes to my lawn. It makes me happy when it looks good, and doesn't take much effort at all.

Not like we live in a place with water shortages. If we did, I'd be the first to kill the sprinklers.

If anything it's the people tasked with maintaining lawns for businesses that have a set it and forget it mentality when it comes to the automatic sprinklers. When we are in our rainy season it's hilarious to drive to work in the rain and see sprinklers going full blast on property after property in the industrial areas. It seems like all the business I drive by daily are set to water every 2nd day which is crazy. Also most of the sprinklers haven't been maintained and water the roads more than the facility grass patches. That's the stuff that the city should direct their attention to and provide stricter guidelines for businesses that water on timers.

[btimbit]

I don't at my current house, but had underground sprinklers when I lived in Okotoks and they had a moisture sensor. If the ground was wet, the sprinklers wouldn't turn on at their set time

No idea how more places don't have that, they're not expensive at all

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

So people that have grass lawns are losers? Surely you are better than this?

No but all losers have grass lawns.

[Sliver]

I've taken pride in my lawn my whole adult life. Contrasting diagonal cuts to make a checkerboard, water, Weed Man...that type of stuff. I am done, though. I enjoy cutting it and I think a manicured lawn looks great, but they're hard to justify due to all the waste that goes into them. Time, chemicals, fuel, etc. I have a meeting with a xeroscaper next month. Long term, I think that's the play.

[btimbit]

I do like the clover thing, seems like a best of both worlds

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

No but all losers have grass lawns.

It's pretty evident over the years of posting here that you have an unhealthy dislike for grass lawns. Plenty of worse things to have disdain for IMO.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

So people that have grass lawns are losers? Surely you are better than this?

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

No but all losers have grass lawns.

It grinds my gears when someone is given the opportunity to ask someone not to call them Shirley and doesn’t take it

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

It grinds my gears when someone is given the opportunity to ask someone not to call them Shirley and doesn’t take it

It’s best appreciated orally.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Wormius

It’s best appreciated orally.

Phrasing

[Captain Otto]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Having a nice monoculture high-need grass lawn is a vanity project. If we’re talking lazy, that’s one step above the laziness of doing nothing at all. Congrats on putting zero thought and effort in it, you push a mower around and turn on your sprinkler, hold the applause.



You could take care of it in a way that’s lower maintenance and resource intensive and friendlier to pollinators and other animals. Different grass species, clover, flowers, more interesting landscaping elements.



Comparing it to showering? That’s dumb and you should feel bad.

Ahhh typical clown response from Pepsi. I know you love your trolling. I can assure you that I put more time and effort into my yard, flower beds and general maintenance than you do in your career planning. Can you stop being an ####### just once? How you aren't banned is beyond me.

####. Why did u take you off ignore.

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[CaptainCrunch]

Personally I'm an advocate to the brady bunch lawn theory of life.

Get rid of the grass and roll out the plastic grass ande plastic flowers.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Captain Otto

Ahhh typical clown response from Pepsi. I know you love your trolling. I can assure you that I put more time and effort into my yard, flower beds and general maintenance than you do in your career planning. Can you stop being an ####### just once? How you aren't banned is beyond me.

####. Why did u take you off ignore.

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I’ve never had me on ignore. It’s hard enough not to like my own posts. Ignoring myself is out of the question.

You seem upset though. Perhaps mowing your lawn again will calm your nerves? I dunno, I’d hope it has some therapeutic advantage or something. Wax on, wax off kinda thing.

EDIT: actually that gives me a great idea. You should replace your boring lawn with a zen garden. Rake some rocks, trim a little tree. Find your peace. That’d look good in a front yard.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

I’m interested in this clover idea. Can it choke out dandelions? Or do I need to do something about them first?

I think you need to pull them out, but if you sprinkle seeds after, you might not have to pull the whole root out as it'll make it hard for the dandelion to come back? I'm in a similar situation and I'm thinking about the clover idea as well.

I have a few dead patches of grass because hares keep showing up and wrecking it. Traditional grass and sod is too fragile so I have this huge crescent moon shaped flattened dead spot front and centre on my lawn. I think the clover can take in that area pretty quickly and I'm thinking to spread more on the rest of the lawn to make it look more consistent. I also have a few random dead spots from the spruce tree, so I hope that the clover can help with that slightly as well.


Dammit, I think I'm going to go all in with some landscaping gear grinders. Half gear grinder and half landscaping post...

I'm looking into a few uncommon shrubs and vines to replace spruce trees and aspect that are growing too close to my house with roots that are potentially damaging the foundation or weeping tile, or branches that whack my house loudly when the wind blows. I'm looking into wolf willow, and/or clematis and hops via a trellis/arbor. If the clematis vine or the wolf willow turn out great, I might take out an extra privacy tree and convert it to that instead. Wolf willow apparently is very aggressive, but I can't imagine it's worse than aspen and the choke cherry I have.

I'm going to clover my lawns to address constant ugly dead patches from animals and just weird spots of death on my lawn. I also wonder if it'll do better than the grass due to the soil acidity from spruce trees.

I'm going to get some native wildflower mix and just dump that #### into the flower bed so it's not all basic brown soil and scythe that #### down to control it if necessary. The plants will look nice, I don't have to do much maintenance on it and hopefully I don't have to water it as much.

I'm going to rip out a ton of the mulch and stones and plant the #### out of the base of my spruce trees because it's pissing me off when I run over #### with the lawn mower and cleaning mulch and stones before mowing is getting annoying. I'm thinking bleeding hearts, poppies and peonies.

Ants are getting into my house and I've spent too much on trying to nuke them and seal my home to prevent them but they always return... I just realized that there's like 5-6 plants from the previous owners that are ultra loved by ants and other insects. I'm going to rip them out so they don't attract insects and transplanting them to the edge of my property if they survive. Then replace them with stuff that bugs dislike. Bugleweed looks like something that will work fine and it seems it should do fine fighting lilac suckers for space.

I poked around into a few things, it might take a year or two for some of them to take, and maybe 2-3 years before they reach the point I am happy with their size and durability... but I think I can do this for around $500-1000 and maybe 10-30 hours worth of elbow grease this summer and autumn. I think it'll be worth it and it'll be relatively low maintenance. I love planting stuff I can just plant and enjoy later on with only minor trimming later on. Not a huge fan of regular maintenance on plants.

[MoneyGuy]

I have crab grass coming into my beautiful lawn now. I don’t know how it’s taken hold but it’s only in certain areas. Is there a way to eradicate it without killing the two or three sections and resodding those areas? I’m worried if I don’t get rid of it it will spread everywhere.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I have crab grass coming into my beautiful lawn now. I don’t know how it’s taken hold but it’s only in certain areas. Is there a way to eradicate it without killing the two or three sections and resodding those areas? I’m worried if I don’t get rid of it it will spread everywhere.

if you have the patience, paint each blade with Round Up using a foam paint brush.

[DownInFlames]

Don’t just raise your arms incredulously when someone cute you off. Honk, for ####s sake.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I have crab grass coming into my beautiful lawn now. I don’t know how it’s taken hold but it’s only in certain areas. Is there a way to eradicate it without killing the two or three sections and resodding those areas? I’m worried if I don’t get rid of it it will spread everywhere.

we had brutal crab grass in our lawn. i started using weedman - they have a crabgrass killer that works really well.. it took probably 3 years to finally get rid of it. once it was gone i discontinued the crab grass stuff. after a couple years it started to come back so i talked to weedman about it and now they apply the crab grass stuff every other year to keep it from coming back and that is working well.

[Captain Otto]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I’ve never had me on ignore. It’s hard enough not to like my own posts. Ignoring myself is out of the question.

You seem upset though. Perhaps mowing your lawn again will calm your nerves? I dunno, I’d hope it has some therapeutic advantage or something. Wax on, wax off kinda thing.

EDIT: actually that gives me a great idea. You should replace your boring lawn with a zen garden. Rake some rocks, trim a little tree. Find your peace. That’d look good in a front yard.

Once again, adding nothing.

And yet still not banned. Amazing.

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[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I’ve never had me on ignore. It’s hard enough not to like my own posts. Ignoring myself is out of the question.

You seem upset though. Perhaps mowing your lawn again will calm your nerves? I dunno, I’d hope it has some therapeutic advantage or something. Wax on, wax off kinda thing.

EDIT: actually that gives me a great idea. You should replace your boring lawn with a zen garden. Rake some rocks, trim a little tree. Find your peace. That’d look good in a front yard.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Captain Otto

Once again, adding nothing.

And yet still not banned. Amazing.

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Lighten up, Francis. Put him back on ignore. He’s not doing anything remotely ban-worthy, and many of us enjoy his posts.

And lawns suck. Quit pretending your boring, suburban hellscape is a majestic field of natural wonder.