MarathonMike
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Weeds popping up through my crushed rock are about a foot tall. Fortunately the Javelina find them tasty, so I'm counting on them to take care of it.
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Oh good Lord Almighty, have we got weeds up here! Most of them have flowers. The only thing we can do is embrace them! Almost immediately after we see green grass showing, the entire yard turns to a bright, cheerful yellow...DANDELIONS! Then after the dandelions comes the daisies....daisies everywhere... Even the dirt driveway, in every garden around the house edge and even in the middle of the lawn...then of course the clover with white pom poms, and then these wild beach roses...you can not kill them...they smell great but they decide where they are going to live...and that's that, by rock boulders, in the lawn under trees, you can mow over them and a month later it is back there....Weeds popping up through my crushed rock are about a foot tall. Fortunately the Javelina find them tasty, so I'm counting on them to take care of it.
I totally agree on weed sprays! The houses in my area have 1 to 2 acre lots so it's a mixed bag of sprayers and non-sprayers. I don't understand why people still use Round-Up after all the lawsuits. I never put up a fence because we enjoy seeing the wildlife mosey into the yard and munch on whatever is growing at the time.Oh good Lord Almighty, have we got weeds up here! Most of them have flowers. The only thing we can do is embrace them! Almost immediately after we see green grass showing, the entire yard turns to a bright, cheerful yellow...DANDELIONS! Then after the dandelions comes the daisies....daisies everywhere... Even the dirt driveway, in every garden around the house edge and even in the middle of the lawn...then of course the clover with white pom poms, and then these wild beach roses...you can not kill them...they smell great but they decide where they are going to live...and that's that, by rock boulders, in the lawn under trees, you can mow over them and a month later it is back there....
When we lived in Massachusetts, in a suburb, all us neighbors competed for the best yard and gardens... The hubby used some Scott's product to kill the dandelions and green the lawn......
Up here in Maine around where we live, we just have to embrace the weeds and see the beauty in them! We don't want to use poisons that might harm the animal friends we have who eat the weeds!
The only thing sweeter than that would be a cocker spaniel puppy.
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we still have snow! lolI may be pulling out the snowblower tomorrow night depending on how the storm hits. Expect about a foot here with over 18" in northern MN.
Mowing seems a long way off again. It was in the sixties a few days ago.
March is crazy weather here.
We got that big snow.we still have snow! lol
We are getting there in Austin. I keep the weeds in back cut in spring/summer because in Houston if you let the grass grow to six inches there would be a water moccasin in it...
We planted mammoth seeds and the squirrel's destroyed every single one of them. If we grow anymore, it will be normal size in the greenhouse.The sunflower seeds from the bird feed aways sprouts in thse spots.
I get some really nice ones from those seeds. Some of em get around a half dozen large disks. And they get pretty tall, too.
And then the little North American gold finches come in and eat the seeds from em when they're ready.
My parent's cat Big Boy, got bit by a rattler in their yard a few weeks ago, in Florida. Poor thing! It cost them $7000 in emergency vet and anti venom shots, to save his life!LOL, I just stepped over a rattler several weeks ago. Lots of woods where we are.
Although growing up in Stone Mountain Georgia part time Atlanta, we saw snakes in our lake all the time, we just watched out for them.
your parents are dumbasses,,My parent's cat Big Boy, got bit by a rattler in their yard a few weeks ago, in Florida. Poor thing! It cost them $7000 in emergency vet and anti venom shots, to save his life!
My parent's have the money, they are in their 90s now and can't take it to their grave. They love their Big Boy, he has another 10yrs left in him, they hope to also have those 10 years with him.your parents are dumbasses,,
no cat is worth 7 grand,,
although that does explain you,,
You know how in the Spring, some of it grows really tall and in other spots it isn't ready to cut yet?
Well that's how it is.
The places where the dog peed all winter are really tall. I guess from all of the nitrogen.
So it's been in the 70s lately.
I'm gonna have to just go do it.
But then once you do it the first time, then you have to do it every week after that.
At the moment, the excuse I'm floating around is that I might need to change the spark plugs in the mowers. Ha...
I totally understand and support what they did!