moneypitmike

Japanese knotweed is the worst. We had a ton of it in the area we had converted to lawn. Getting rid of it was a slow, painstaking process. The first thing we did was put down a landscape cover below the loam we brought in. That helped, but this shit would still grow underneath it/between the seams. I used to go out wiht my coffee in the mornings and yank out the little shoots. Doing this over time (a couple seasons) and frequent mowing we were able to get it under control. The stuff is just horrible though.....grows up to 4"/day.

Miserable out there the last few hours. Heavy rain, temps in the lower 50's. Just turned on the heat, ftl.

What a difference a week makes.....green, flowers, buds. Flipping a switch. What do folks do for striping (no, Kevin--I"m not looking for directions to the Blue)? Did you buy an attachment? Make your own? Needing to buy a mower and want to be ready. TIA.

Seasons in seasons.

Agree. This is an I Need Snow, Hubb, Hippy special.

Days and days of rain???

Spring arrived overnight. Feels great this morning. Open 'em up.

open them up.

Got seed down on the front lawn last evening; hopefully that will fill in some rough areas and generally provide some further density. I had a landscaper take a look at the backyard disaster. Grading, filling, removal of a lot of crap. Still waiting on an estimate.

I will likely put down some seed today. The upcoming several days will provide some natural watering.

A nice thing about being a mile from the airport is having (reliable?) readings. 1.23" as of the 7:00a.m. reading. I think the fertilizer I put down yesterday is fertlizing the water table.

Thanks....I raked it out yesterday. With the upcoming rains, I feel good about putting the fertilizer in. It's not a pre-emergent, but I think I'll let it do its stuff and then put down seed. Perhaps next weekend will work given the rains this week to help the fertlizer get drawn in.

I would not fertilize anywhere near my water supply.

Bumping this up for feedback before I put down any fertilizer (before tomorrow night's rain seems like a good time to get it down). Advice on my 3 steps above welcome!

Managed two peeks of the sun this morning--hopefully the clouds will dissipate.

Well, I think we're doing some major overhaul of the backyard disaster, so I have nothing to concern myself with that at this point. In the front though, I'm looking to just do a quick and dirty job without any real focus on ph-levels or any such things. So......I'm guessing I need to: 1) rake out all the dead stuff 2) fertilize--any suggestions of type? I figure that's more a concern for me at this stage than brand 3) seed. How long after I fertilize? Thanks!

And this is why spring in New England royally blows. I wonder if Pit2 is snowing.

april showers.......

Rain. Meh.

Hey, only 7 months untill weenie googles start showing the first inklings of snow opportunities for 2019-20, and 7 months + one day until James' first post of a '78 redux that's going to demolish Cape Cod, MA.

Are you installing today?

Pretty succinct forecast for tonight.

Apparently, some geological disaster occurred overnight: Worcester Regional Airport MA 9.9692099683869E+36°N 9.9692099683869E+36°E (Elev. -32767 ft)

Congratulations--that's awesome! Let the moneypit times commence. Do you need to change your name or are you still in Taunton?