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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 23, 2010, 12:21:45 am ---Does leave holes all over the lawn though...  :-\
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And that is worse than three dogs and a two year old armed with a garden spade how?

shmokes:
My brother is a gardner in San Francisco.  He recently went and landscaped my mom's back yard in southern Utah.  As you can tell by the plants, southern Utah is a desert.  Nevertheless, 99% of the yards are lawn.  It's so much work and water and expense to keep up with it, and it doesn't look remotely as nice as a properly landscaped yard with native plants.  Here's the before/after pictures of my mom's place:

LLUncoolJ:
When you put down Weed n Feed, you need to make sure the grass is wet so that it sticks to the weeds. Either morning dew, post rain, or water it first. Just make sure it isn't going to rain anymore for 24 hours or so. I like the Scotts brand because the granulars are smaller and stick better. It takes a week or so to start working. Then you can go back in with the Ortho spray and hit the survivers. I like the stuff you hook up to the hose.

2 summers ago I would've put my front yard in the Pepsi challenge against any house in my hood. Then last year I used TruGreen and was dumbfounded by how terrible of a job they did. I had a bumper crop of clover, I kept calling them out to respray and they treated me like I just didn't understand how there chemicals "worked". I can't believe they would stick their little sign in the middle of a clover patch the way they did. If you opt to go that route, use a small company where you can speak with the owner. Also, my neighbor used an outfit that used all organic stuff. He got about the same results as I did.

BTW, .5 acre and I am in the process of having an inground pool put in. That should eat up about 25% of my lawn.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: LLUncoolJ on April 23, 2010, 10:08:34 am ---Also, my neighbor used an outfit that used all organic stuff. He got about the same results as I did.

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The wife bought an organic bag of weed killer granules last year.  It did the complete opposite.  The yard exploded within the next two weeks with weeds.


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 22, 2010, 11:39:56 pm ---It has this hideous plant that grows with stalks as thick as my thumb, fox tails and those damn burr things.
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I hate the broadleaf weeds that have sharp spikes on the leaves.  Those are the worst.  I made it a point to keep pulling them up by the root whenever they appeared.


--- Quote from: shmokes on April 23, 2010, 02:11:48 am ---My brother is a gardner in San Francisco.  He recently went and landscaped my mom's back yard in southern Utah.  As you can tell by the plants, southern Utah is a desert.  Nevertheless, 99% of the yards are lawn.  It's so much work and water and expense to keep up with it, and it doesn't look remotely as nice as a properly landscaped yard with native plants.  Here's the before/after pictures of my mom's place:
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Drives me nuts how people waste water in the desert for a damn green lawn.  Lots of people would love to live with that kind of non-hassle in the desert of laying down a bunch of rocks, pavers, stones, etc like your mom has.  I think it looks great, and would love that myself.

ahofle:
The problem I've found with the chemical treatments is their requirements for when water must/mustn't touch them.  We have brief showers almost every afternoon where I live (guaranteed in fact if I spray the weeds).  Also, it takes so long to kill them that the dying weeds posthumously release the floating dandelion seeds anyway. 

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