My grass is a foot high in some places

[MarathonMike]

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.

 

[Care4all]

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.

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!

 

[MarathonMike]

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!

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.

 

[GLASNOST]

The only thing sweeter than that would be a cocker spaniel puppy.

or one of these:
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... or one of those.

 

[DudleySmith]

None of the weeds around here look pretty; I use the weed spray every year. I've used Roundup, it's okay along fence lines, but I use strong vinegar on the vines and tree roots, as it works a lot better at killing those. I get the 30% kind, so I use gloves, glasses, and chem resistant leggings when handling it.

 

[mamooth]

Glyphosate is the only thing that will take out a lot of weeds and woody growth. Stuff like honeysuckle or mulberry laughs at other weed killers. 20% glyphosate sprayed on a freshly cut stump will ensure that any woody thing stays dead and doesn't resprout.

It doesn't cause cancer or hurt the environment. The attacks on it are bad science, pushed by ambulance-chasers. I'd call glyphosate one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, as it allowed for vastly expanded food production that saved millions of people from starvation.

That reminds me, I have to go spray the Star-of-Bethlehem clumps with glyphosate. Pretty stuff, but invasive.

 

[Natural Citizen]

My lazy neighbor has cinquefoil all over his lawn and that stuff keeps creeping into my lawn.

Every year it's a struggle keeping that stuff at bay.

I've half a mind to roundup his entire lawn on this side.I won't, of course. But I've seriously thought about it. lol...

 

[petro]

I 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.

 

[Dekster]

I've mowed twice. Once to get it going and then this week so it will look tolerable this weekend. My city can be selective Nazis if you let it get too long, but I have been letting it go longer than I did in the past. Mow about half as often last couple years.

 

[SootedUpCyndi]

I 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 still have snow! lol

 

[Leo123]

Still Winter up here in the CA mtns. When it warms, you can just about hear the weeds grow.

 

[petro]

we still have snow! lol

We got that big snow.
Was about to get the boat and camper ready, but that shut that down.
Went from motorcycles on the road a few days ago, to snowmobiles in the ditch.
It's melting fast already though.

 

[whoisit]

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...

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.

 

[whoisit]

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.

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.

 

[Dekster]

My grass crunches when I walk across it. Oh these southern summers are extra summery this year.....

 

[Care4all]

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.

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!

 

[progressive hunter]

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!

your parents are dumbasses,,
no cat is worth 7 grand,,

although that does explain you,,

 

[Care4all]

your parents are dumbasses,,
no cat is worth 7 grand,,

although that does explain you,,

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.

They felt it was their fault, for letting him go outside, of which my sister had begged them to make him an indoor cat only, when she got him for them. They didn't listen to her...they listen to him, who was begging to go out, all the time. My sister and parents got him from a shelter, to SAVE his life, not to then KILL him.

I totally understand and support what they did!

 

[leftwinger]

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...

Why did your city allow you to become a blight on the neighborhood. Normally they come around and put warnings or eventually tickets and fines taped on your door. Big GOVT at its finest is never enough.//

 

[leftwinger]

I totally understand and support what they did!

Like the other poster said.....wow!