OP, your statement about keep the mower up high to achieve the best grass. That's what I tell my wife when she says the grass is getting tall. I tell her I'm keeping it healthy.

Serously, no pics, but we recently moved to a new house. We have zero trees in the front yard, which means I'm taking over nice grass. First thing I did was spray out the weeds I found. I plan to keep it nice where before I had the same philosophy of another Pinsider; if it's green it's good.

I'm also guilty of not changing the oil in a mower for 10 yrs. The thing ran great and the first oil change I did was when I sold it because my FIL gave me a better mower.

I put up with two Sweet Gum trees the past 14 years and regret not cutting them down on year one. They were a constant problem. No Sweet Gum trees for me now.

You have to pass over the grass several times to get that nice diagonal pattern. You may be over compacting your soil and running over grass more than needed.

Edit: Another excuse I give my wife when she wonders why all the retired neighbor's houses have that nice checkered pattern.

Isn't all grasse seed hydroseeded. I mean if you don't water it, it's not going to grow. but not really.

You definitely have a nice lot, wish I had that separation. I just never heard of hydroseeding. I've seen on roadway projects where they shoot seed, water, and straw out of a cannon on a hill side. I'm guessing that's not what you did.

At my last house we killed of all the grass in the back to start fresh. I had it coming in real nice from seed and straw. However, my 100 lb Lab (RIP) would drop a gallon of urine in one spot at a time. Basically undoing all my hard work. My FIL never misses a chance to say I should hire someone to sod it. Guess what, the sod would have been killed too and then I would be out that money.

Wait, is that your wife? I can see a thread lock awfully fast and lots of bush and milkweed jokes. I better get a picture of my lawn.

My front yard. No trees and not very big, so I think I can keep this grass nice. Any yellow spots are from the dogs peeing. No pic of the backyard because you'll kick me out when you see all the bare spots. Most of the bare spots is where my new patio is going and I have a water issue that should be taken care of this summer.

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Is that your pose when you find out you have a family event? I see clover. Better get on top of that.

How important is edging the sidewalk? I have an edger that I used to intall an invisible dog fence. I tried on the sidewalk and it was just throwing sparks and didn't work well for intended use. I just hit the edge with my weed eater.

I did have it low, so maybe that was the problem. The soil was also wet, which I dealt with the whole time puttin in the invisible fence because it kept getting clogged.

No, it was on edge of sidewalk, but you are right; sparks were from rubbing against the concrete. I was trying to follow the sidewalk as a guide. After a couple feet I realized I need to hold the elecric fince 6 inches from the sidewalk to keep the dogs from getting to close to the walk. Electric is what I have. I have to admit, mine looks fine without the edge, but when I walk by a house that edged the sidewalk I think, damn that dude cares; it looks good.

I bought one those from CL a year ago and absolutely love it. I was moving sprinklers four time to cover the area. No more, just set the path for the tractor and it covers the whole back yard. I don't rely on the stop though. Setting a timer and keeping an eye on her from time to time to make sure didn't jump ship is required. The great thing is the tractor moves so slow the dogs leave it alone.

cdnpinbacon Happy Canada Day, I'm going to have some bacon tonight.

Which one is progress? Less or more decoration?

Holy crap, I thought that looked familiar. I didn't realize until you mentioned PeeWee and I zoomed in.

I'm guessing no dogs and kids. Looks great. I did the rock thing once and was always throwing them back from the grass to the rock bed. Damn kids and animals kept moving them around. Not to mention the GD dog pee spots.

Should I be putting something on my lawn this time of year? The front lawn looks worse than when I moved in. I do have a dog that pisses all over and had annoying sedge grass over the summer that grew crazy. Do I fertilize and overseed? I don't really want to water it though.

I've been stalking WUndergound looking for the perfect time to put down grass seed. The dogs have done a number front and back. Can't picture because it's so bad.

The grass doesn't care about the #2 dog dew, it's the pee that kills it. I never found a good online resource to tell me how to counteract the dig piss. God bless him, my huge lab is no longer with us, but that dog did a number. He would pee twice a day and a gallon would come out. He liked the same spots. The current labs spread it around more, except in the front.

I laid down a bunch of grass seed and top soil yesterday and got a big rain today. I hope it didn't all wash away. I swear buying grass seed is like throwing money into the wind.

I hear ya brother. My dogs are always killing my grass.

Good news though, my grass seed and thin layer of top soil I laid down Sunday survived the storm yesterday. The ground was soggy so I just stomped it all in. We are supposed to get about 1.25 inches tomorrow, so we'll see if it survives that. For those that suggested aerating. Yeah, that would have been smart, but I was too lazy. I don't have a utility trailer anymore, so I would really have to hire it out.

We have the same exact patio set. Always covered.

I had Zoysia at the last house and one summer that whole damn thing died. Heard a fungus went around. I struggled with that lawn ever since.

I like how you think

I have to try this or another product called sedge hammer. I have nutsedge that looks like crap when it grows faster than the rest of the grass in the summer.

I ordered the Tenacity, surfacant, and sprayer last night. I'll apply this weekend. Hope it works as well as everyone says.

You know how Amazon shows what people also bought when you buy something. I saw that dye and thought it didn't need. I don't care if I hit a spot twice. I'm going whole hog.

Peonies are like big natural boobs. They get droopy, but when properly supported are an awesome sight.

We're waiting.......

I got mine last week from Amazon. Now I'm just waiting for it to work. I read you need patience and like two weeks. I had left over mixed, but it supposedly is only good for 24 hrs, so I don't know what to do with the left over.

Good to know. I'm happy to report my nutsedge is turning ghostly. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow. It's really nice to see visual progress.

I'm hitting it twice no matter. I take no prisoners.

I believe this is after 5 days of spraying Tenacity. We just planted those perenials and the one picture there are Day Lillies I tried to miss and think I did an okay job. I'm waiting for the weeds to die before putting some more mulch down.

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That's ace.

I have a friend that likes to mess with his OCD neighbor. The neigbhor mows right after my friend and tries to match the height exactly. So my friend started changing the mow height each time. My friend got a real kick out of this, but when I heard the story I though great, OK. Well, at least I had a story to tell here for what it's worth.

This is why grass is my arch enemy. You paid for sod and still looks like I own it. Hope it fills in.

Tenacity update. This is after second application. Worked great killing the nutsedge, which was my main goal. Other random stuff I put it on was still hanging on. I'm going to full cover those spots with mulch tomorrow to clean it up.

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Pick the longest lines and go with that. The least turning the quicker you will cut. Therefore, spirling in in rectangles is going to take longer.

I shit you not, I have someone in the neighborhood that uses guinea pigs to cut their grass. It doesn't looks good.

My 13 year old for some reason decided to edge our lawn. I had the edger/trencher to lay an electric fence for the dog. My son had an itch to use it so at 7:30pm last night I showed him how to use it. Our sidewalk had never been egded, but hid did good until it started to get dark where he wondered in the tree lawn. He finished it up the next day and only tripped the circuit breaker once. It may not look it, but he cleaned up the mess a lot.

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I agree. The grass overlapped the sidealk a couple inches on each side along with soil. He had to cut a lot out and used a snow shovel to put the debri in our lawn waste bin. I wish I had a picture of the mess.

I have researched this a ton. The only real answer I have found is you have to pour a bunch of water on it right after. Yeah, I know, not realistic.

Yes, preventing the problem is always best. Not much help when your dogs like the grass.

You know what has tenacity, F'ng crab grass. I had to hit my front planter bed again today. I'll be back in 2 weeks. The honey suckle and whatever the vines are under my two pine trees are almost gone between the Tenacity and Roundup.

I have some of that, but not a lot. For some reason it likes to live between the concrete walkway and grass. It's all goint to die, just new stuff keeps popping up. The sedge grass is a pain though. Although the tenacity works on it, that dam stuff decided to hug my day lillies which tenacity will also kill.

I'll have to try it. Sivler Cymbal has some good review stuff, but I only check in sometimes.

Yeah, you aren't kidding. Its ok too me though, but he'll never get a national gig because of it.

Sorry your water cost is so high. We have it good here.

One way to find out

Sorry, no pics, but my front lawn is starting to look like a gray graveyard with all the gray crab grass. Now it's been hot for awhile all the sedge and other crab grasses are making themselves a nuisance. I'm terminating them though.

I don't know how you all's rocks stay put. Between my kids, kids friends, and dogs they are always all over the place.

Beatuiful dogs.

Edit: Here are my labs

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No, just a $10 2 gallon garden sprayer. Fill it with the chemical and water, pump, and spray. Don't do it in the wind.

Wish cdnpinbacon would come back. Hope is OK.

Glad you are back. Hope all is well.

I love the hairdo

What's the irrigation for?

Yeah, you know it's bad when irrigation doesn't keep it alive. Maybe time for rock.

I went on vacation and saw lots of rain in the forecast, so didn't worry about paying a neighbor kid to water the lawn. Didn't realize the area would get 8-10 inches in one day. Hope my basement is OK.

Glad they turned out to know what they were doing. It was sketchy at first.

I did the same where my front property meets my neighbor with the sedge grass. I was sprying mine, they left and got on his driveway and sprayed it all. Shit was coming from my lawn though. Did him a favor.

My front yard is looking terrible. More weeds dying from Tenacity than fescue.

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They do their own damage, but I still love them

Been using every two weeks all summer. My FIL just came over to lecture me that I don't know what I'm doing and I need to hire a service. Said I need to control the weeds. WTF, do you think I'm doing trying to kill it? Thing is how it turns gray/white, it looks really weird.

Maybe this is why I'll never had a good lawn. I'm throwing lime and gypsum. If one works two is better. I haven't resorted to this at the new house, but used to have a 110 lb lab that would drop a gallon of pee at a time in the same spots. I tried everything to keep grass, but never could.

Maybe rattlesnake holes? No, can't be, but it's in your head now.

I'm going to attempt growing new grass this weekend. Forecast looks good for cool season grass.

Where do you live; middle earth?

My weeds are mostly heat lovers so I'm trying to get fescue back in while it likes the cooler weather. Still humid as fuck, which I'm guessing is good for grass seed

It's beautiful.

I had chickweed at the old house and it looked like this. That was a bastard to deal with. Had to pull it manually and it never gave up.

That Mother F'r. Diagonal, like a Neanderthal? Doesn't he know that doubles the stress on the grass? He also cut it too low.

My cat does the same, but they are always alive, which isn't real helpful

That's a nice saw

I have a smallest Green works electric chainsaw I use on limbs and bushes. I like it, but accidentally knock the chain off more than I would like. It's my honeysuckle killer

Always happens when I go at an angle and probably applying pressure wrong. As long as I don't cut myself I I'm doing good.

I have Green works, but love the electric chainsaw

Sing, nice choice of words. Should be fun though.

It won't take him long to fuck it up.

Yeah, I would think so. I was talking about your K9 though. I swear I'm not bad at lawns, but my dogs always counter my efforts.

Uh, no thanks on that.

I had backyard aerated and seeded last week. I also have the half that is destroyed from the dogs fenced off with danger tape and survey stakes. I'm hoping for a nice backyard this year.

The grass in the background looks really good

AP is making mowers now?

It's chickweed. I had shitload of that at the last house.

The front yard is looking really nice. The aeration may have done its job. Plus, with the pre-emergent, no weeds; yet.

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Nice symbiotic relationship.

I have to add, I don't cut low and no diagonal. Bacon should be proud.

I'll use my d... Nvmd

Mines been throwing off helicopters last few weeks

Are you the person that had a sketcy zoysia intall last year?

Is that a manhole cover in every single sidewalk slab?

All I can see is Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michalangelo popping out.

Why did you do Zoysia to begin with? Had that at my last house and was happy when it all died because of some disease.

It's brown except like three months and doesn't feel good on the feet.

Maybe, Zoysia makes sense further south, but in Missouri; I don't like it.

You don't have your location listed for some reason. It helps to know what region people live.

Ok, that makes sense.

Can't use right now or there is too much water. Learned my lesson on that. The tractor will be used in the summer.

Doesn't that go in the fire pit?

Looks just like mine

Bacon. I just got back from early summer vacation and we left last Sat. morning with no time to mow since previous weekend. Got home and the grass is long as hell. It's starting to get seed pods.

I don't know if I will be able to cut tomorrow because of rain. I might get reported to my HOA.

I have to take a pic tomorrow.

I know it's hard, but train the puppy to go where you have mulch or don't care about the grass. Years of researching says this is best way, or just stop caring like me.

Here is my tall grass after getting back from vacation. 2 weeks growth.

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