A Sea Of Red

Is your grass dead Yet?
Note where you live and the condition of your lawn.
I live in the burg, and I'm down to mowing just the septic field! I finally get my son doing most of the mowing and we don't need to mow, great.
Need rain! I drove by London downs yesterday and its funny to see green tees, fairways, and greens and brown everywhere else.
It's also fun mowing in a dust cloud, right?

i live in northwest illinois. i have a bermuda lawn (don't get me started on this, please) that is greener than most of the other lawns in the neighborhood....that happens in the summer months.

however, my green turns yellow in middle sept because it starts to get too cold for a southern grass. to prolong the green into october i must spread ironite throughout. but then it goes brown until about late may. in if i ironite in april, it will green up towards the end of april.

i inherited this lawn. it was planted by an elderly women who basically loved gardening and lawncare...its what she would do all day....everyone that has lived on the block for longer than 15 years said that our lawn was absolutely gorgeous each and every year and that the lawn was always perfect.

the problem? the house was sold to an alcoholic and he let it go....so when we bought the house, the lawn was so thick with thatch that i didn't think it could be saved....well after 3 years of de thatching in spring and fall, i've finally gotten rid of most of it.

bermuda can be successfull in northern regions if you have time...i don't....by they way, i have to mow twice a week....its rediculous...

2X a week, ouch.
Mine is K31 that I planted myself 14 years ago. I have like 1,5 acres to mow. I need to thatch, I'm a little behind. I have weed issues that I can't seem to get rid of too. I lime every other year or so. We typically mow 1 time a week in peak season if it rains at all. Right now it looks aweful!

weeds will start but that bermuda lawn chokes the snot out of them....i do the scotts stuff and it finishes off any survivors...

RubberMallet wrote:weeds will start but that bermuda lawn chokes the snot out of them....i do the scotts stuff and it finishes off any survivors...

My worst is crabgrass and dandilions

My lawn has been dead since it was planted. Except for the nice septic drain field of course. I've just got a yard full of rocks and various desert thriving weeds.

I live in Rustburg.

Yucka, Aloe Vera? Tumbleweeds?

We just moved into our house in October and I'll be planting my grass in about 4-5 weeks.

beautiful thick green grass at my house....i just hate mowing it.

RubberMallet wrote:, the lawn was so thick with thatch that i didn't think it could be saved....well after 3 years of de thatching in spring and fall, i've finally gotten rid of most of it.

I bought this stuff & it seems to work very well.

LazyMan Liquid Gold ( aerates, de-thatches, & conditions )

http://www.outsidepride.com/catalog/Laz ... 18066.html

Also, their "Showtime" mix of grass seed is really high quality.

blwall1416 wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:, the lawn was so thick with thatch that i didn't think it could be saved....well after 3 years of de thatching in spring and fall, i've finally gotten rid of most of it.

I bought this stuff & it seems to work very well.

LazyMan Liquid Gold ( aerates, de-thatches, & conditions )

http://www.outsidepride.com/catalog/Laz ... 18066.html

Also, their "Showtime" mix of grass seed is really high quality.

Wow! That's crazy tech. I amy have to try it.

Rooster Cogburn wrote:Yucka, Aloe Vera? Tumbleweeds?

The nice thing about a tumbleweek lawn is, if you're patient, you don't have to mow at all.

I just moved into a house here in the Ft Lauderdale area in early June and half my lawn was dead then. Thanks to a ton of rain over the past month, my lawn is beginning to look green again.

The shady areas are doing fine...I think I am down to about one every other week.

I'm down to when I can't stand the nagging any longer.

I remember having an LU student years ago, and the only criterion he had for a future wife was that she would have to cut his grass.

i've heard that bermuda grass can be a very high maintenance grass to germinate because the seed is apparently really hard and has to be continuously watered in order for it to take seed. so if that's true, might want to reconsider bermuda grass if you are going to plant it...

you sod in bermuda grass usually...

oh and my wife loves to mow the lawn for some reason....i don't argue about it....meanwhile all the ladies on the block think i'm a pig while all the dudes think i'm the man....

i asked her dad about it this last week...he was like "she's alwasy been like that"

My lawn in Denver looks like a fairway baby! Of coarse I'm watering 4x a week. My wife and son do the mowing. Life is good!

Edouard did next to nothing down here in Houston but it did give my yard a half day of steady rain. It is perking up back up as a result. Our drought has been awful. Some neighborhoods around us have started water rationing like the Central & Western parts of the state.

The parts of my yard that don't have shade are drying up no matter how much I water.

My lawn is looking terrible. My neighbors just put their house up for sale of off Fort Ave. I haven't mowed it yet because there is no grass. The only thing left are weeds and sticks because I am not going to have a high water bill to water it.

I'm cutting my backyard grass tonight.

i hate mowing grass, so i wont water it no matter how bad looking it gets