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DragonPete":ok35p0rf said:I know, been there. Lol! ? I spent at least an hour a day, everyday, for about 5 months working in my yard last year. Had a great tan and good disposition but few veggies etc. ? Just going out the door to clean up a little outside. I need some sun, makes me feel happy! ?Claudiusx":ok35p0rf said:I just don't feel like im doing anything if I don't water! Lol.
I did a whole bunch of yard work today instead to stay busy. Dethatched a my lawn (near 3000 sq ft.), mowed, trimmed, fertilized, and turned on the sprinklers.
I AM that guy who tries to have the best grass in the neighborhood lol. I've never dethatched before. I bought a dethatching rake at home depot last week. I lasted about half an hour. That is hard work. For 60 bucks more I could buy an electric dethatcher on amazon, so I did. Pulled sooooo much dead grass out of the lawn. This will make the fertilizer I put down much more effective... I hope.
It is pretty warm today too (well.. by coastal standards LOL) and the soil in the beds is still dark just under the top layer, so I assume it's still got plenty of water.
-Brandon
-Dee
I never fertilize or water my lawn , EVER , this summer when we had the extreme drought. My lawn was nice and healthy where all the fastidious obsessives around me had dead or dying lawns ( not allowed to water their lawns in level 2 water restriction ) .
Think if you fertilise the lawn and obsessively water it to turn into essentially a lawn bowling green sure it looks and feels great , but the roots are shallow and the grass is weak , and it dies when deprived of water.
We'll I guess I lie , as when my edges are done and the lawn is mowed, the lawnmowing guy leaves the finely mulched grass and weeds where it falls ==> natural mulch and fertilizer ( and saves him tip fees and time too ).