2016 lawn thread.

[CJ]

If you can get a close up picture of the base it might be easier to tell, but it looks like my neighbor's yard and she has crabgrass. It grows super tall within a couple of days because my water trickles over to her side.

Yeah, I'm not sure broad leaf killer is gonna take care of that. Looks pretty serious.

[01yz2nv]

Before and after of my back yard. What a dump before.

[CJ]

looks like the first picture was taken in '87.

[01yz2nv]

looks like the first picture was taken in '87.

Haha only pic I could find was from a color printer. So it's a picture of a print.

[mustang1200]

5 days ago I had our new yard hydroseeded and it's starting to come up. I may end up with a yard after all.

[black2002ls]

Before and after of my back yard. What a dump before.

Very nice!

I finally have some bermuda spreading through my back yard. I'm trying to nurse it through this heat. The patio is finally done, once I get some landscaping done I'll toss a picture up.

[lincolnboy]

Hoping to get my yard backu. Sprinkler valve was out and had some one come locate all my 7 valves. Best $100 spent today. Locating those valves was a bitch, took longer to find the valce then it took to replace one valve.

[black2002ls]

Here is what mine looks like now



I have a few yellow spots and some thin spots. A lot of it is still from the thick stands of weeds that I had to kill. Still have some weeds to knock out, but light years ahead of where I was this spring



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[Goku025]

looking good black!

So the past month and a half since having to raise it to 2" i have been watering the grass every 3 or 4 days to keep up with this drought and every section i had to leave it for 15 to 20 minutes just to get the ground a little soft. I missed 2.5 weeks of mowing due to a vacation and had to move it up from 1" to 2" on the mower. I noticed the bermuda after about 2 or 3 days was getting puffy in a lot of areas and wasnt growing the way i wanted. I should have taken a before picture. It had a lush deep green color to it but was way higher than i wanted.

I tried cutting getting back down to 1" but it was impossible with the heat and timing so i dropped it to 1.5" and cut the front, bag the clippings, and cut again and repeated that for the back. I have 6 of those lowes grass bags filled to the top! I dropped some fertilizer down in time for all this rain we are hopefully going to get and it should green up in a week or so.

Back:



Front:

[bird_dog0347]

Yeah, the lack of rain and extreme heat has taken it's toll on mine too. I'm hoping we get plenty of rain this week as I can tell there's a ton of shrinkage in the soil as it's pull over 3/4" away from the concrete edges and the grass near the curbs is just yellow and burnt.

[Tx Redneck]

Fresh cut, fert and watering.

http://imgur.com/a/wutHo

[black2002ls]

looking good black!

So the past month and a half since having to raise it to 2" i have been watering the grass every 3 or 4 days to keep up with this drought and every section i had to leave it for 15 to 20 minutes just to get the ground a little soft. I missed 2.5 weeks of mowing due to a vacation and had to move it up from 1" to 2" on the mower. I noticed the bermuda after about 2 or 3 days was getting puffy in a lot of areas and wasnt growing the way i wanted. I should have taken a before picture. It had a lush deep green color to it but was way higher than i wanted.

I tried cutting getting back down to 1" but it was impossible with the heat and timing so i dropped it to 1.5" and cut the front, bag the clippings, and cut again and repeated that for the back. I have 6 of those lowes grass bags filled to the top! I dropped some fertilizer down in time for all this rain we are hopefully going to get and it should green up in a week or so.

Thanks. It is getting there. I probably should have put some fertilizer down before the rain.

[sdun]

Wtf is this weed that sprouts up in a thin little bastard. It cost me a 100 fine with our fucking hoa. How do I kill it.

Looks like Iron Weed, is it hard to cut clean?

[Tx Redneck]

Fresh cut this AM, third time in 8 days. Rain+fert= LOTS of growth.

[black2002ls]

Fresh cut this AM, third time in 8 days. Rain+fert= LOTS of growth.

DAMN that looks good!

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