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Am I right to assume that grapes should be fine here planted in raised beds? My concern is in winter with bed soil temps getting more extreme. They’ll have all warm season to root down into the clay, but was still curious. I’d probably just do 6” or 8” high ones. Am I good or just plant them directly into the ground?

Mt Washington had a -103F on 1/16/2004.

Oooh. Forgot to post this. Gypsies on my back door?

Whatever that is, I'm pretty sure I have plenty of it. Maybe the last one is sorrel?

I play weed darts and weed hole.

Chemicals are tough here in well-water country too. I don't have a 200' artesian well either so I don't need to be dumping chemically created nitrogen over my drinking source. Plantain and dandelion weeds are nutritious anyway.

I've definitely been more about planting this year than worrying about grass blades. Lots of different perennials, some annuals, cherry tree, blueberries, bamboo, garden veggies, herbs, sunflowers, etc. The "lawn" looks fairly full and lush even though there's weeds so I'm cool with that. My lilacs are insane right now. I can smell them from the other side of the yard.

More likely to happen June 9-17.

50?

BDL 54mph

81/61 even up here. Lubed and primed.

Before it updated to 17z

I think my dead grandmother is more fertile than his yard.

Yeah. It's only heavily trodden areas that are struggling. The rest of the yard is thick and lush this spring...especially after a couple years of chicken poop. I just want to keep some semblance of green growing in these areas, but don't want to put a lot of time, money, or effort into it. I understand that for every hole the spikes make they compress the soil even more around them, but I figured stirring the soil up and letting water get down there is at least some benefit. Weeding through the reviews on Amazon most people say they notice at least some improvement so we'll see how it goes. Hopefully they stay on my feet.

Speaking of aerating... I’m not concerned about weeds in the yard, but I do have some frequently walked on parts of the lawn around the run that are starting to see the grass struggle. I know core aerators are best, but do the spikes work at all? I thought about getting a decent pair of aerating shoes off of Amazon just to loosen the soil a bit around there. I’m not expecting miracles, but if they will make even a 25% improvement I’d be interested.

With global warming you will have a tropical lawn by then.

Name change to GreenLawns?

I do. But I have a dirt/rocky driveway too so if the amounts are meh I'll shovel instead of chucking rocks into the lawn or breaking shear pins. I raise the blower up earlier in the winter to miss rocks, but it leaves snow/ice on the driveway. As we get toward the end of winter I want the snow to vaporize off the driveway. If my driveway was paved like yours I'd snowblow every time and have it set so low there'd be sparks coming off the pavement.

Some could save time snow blowing their driveway, but they choose to shovel.

To each their own. Fully understand market value, curb appeal, and what the mainstream considers to be a "nice" lawn as I grew up with it. My parents live in a high end area of Hooksett and they have the full sprinkler system, chemicals, lawn service, etc. I've become more of the naturey (word?) tree hugger type. Regular green grass just bores me. I will say year 3 of chicken poop is finally working its magic as the lawn is greener than ever and the white clover is spreading and thriving with the grass so the soil must really be nitrogen rich. Planted my bamboos and cherry tree yesterday. Had to put some hardware cloth guards around the 'boo to keep the chickens away from it while it gets established, but it should be good to go. Saturday morning is looking above freezing so I may get the veggies is soon. Beautiful week.

There's been other research besides the cancer aspect. It's been linked to destroying soil bacteria and affecting the gut biome in humans leading to celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/aristildeglyphosate I'm not a 100% fan boy, but I am a follower of Mark Sisson and he's had some blog posts on the subject with links to various studies. https://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-roundup-safety-and-polyamory-to-monogamy/ I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on the issue, but I always defer to natural methods in my yard. I don't understand the big deal about a few weeds in the yard...sounds like more of an OCD thing to me than anything. I'd rather have a mixed lawn and a huge area on my property of wildflowers homing beneficial insects instead of a pristine lawn...but I understand that I'm the minority on that.

Everyone keep using that Roundup. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails

Depends on the spreader and the fert. There's conversions online if you google search. What's the model of your spreader?

wild strawberry? if they flower yellow they could be mock strawberry. i have a lot of both in parts of my yard. i loathe the mock weeds.

Problem is they eat/kill grass too.