OT: My yard too

[formanbob]

Well It looks like everyone is working on the outside of their house.
My 58 is on hold till I get the down spouts re run to the street, while I was at it I am putting in an irrigation system, and while I am at that, new lawn, and I might as well re landscape the front.
I spent my day off Friday busting up 19 feet of concrete, and Sunday doing all the trenching.
I love hooking the truck up and just yanking things out of the ground…


As you can see I had some lovely bushes that needed to be “trimmed”

My front lawn looks like a bunch of HoHo’s

Try and try I can get my dog to eat krill.

Well it’s not an after shot, but it has been a ton of work.

 

[porky]

WOW Jake, is there anything you can't do?

 

[formanbob]

Sit still... spell... convert Metric to standard, and pass on a good deal...

 

[porky]

:lol:

 

[formanbob]

 

[porky]

When I grow up I wanna be just like formanbob

 

[formanbob]

I just want to grow up... Wait,,,, No! I don't want to grow up,

 

[jdircksen]

what did you do with the sod once you rolled it up?

 

[formanbob]

Swaco/Roberts Rd Yard waste Dump, it is free.

 

[RokleM]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9700689#post9700689 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by porky
WOW Jake, is there anything you can't do?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9700740#post9700740 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by formanbob
Sit still...

That's apparent!!! :lol: Whenever I think my life is busy, I just think of formanbob.

Maybe if I get bored, I'll come "help" for a tiny bit. I've been debating about doing an irrigation system and wouldn't mind seeing what you have planned. Based on everything else I've seen, I don't worry about not learning from a good source

 

[formanbob]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9701788#post9701788 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RokleM
That's apparent!!! :lol: Whenever I think my life is busy, I just think of formanbob.

Maybe if I get bored, I'll come "help" for a tiny bit. I've been debating about doing an irrigation system and wouldn't mind seeing what you have planned. Based on everything else I've seen, I don't worry about not learning from a good source

Well thanks, I think...

Hey if you want to help any, come on by....

I have to go to SLC next week, and I must have everything buried before I go out of town. Then I will have slinger Jones come by and spray 7-14 cubic yards of pulverized topsoil all over to give the seed a nice surface to bite to.

 

[DrBCool]

I am guiessing you used a sod cutter to get all the sod up When I landscape I do it the old hard way .. I use a nursery spade and usually nice smooth edge lines to put in the edging ... I never got to use a sod cutter other than my arms and legs and some back ...

Looks great ..

 

[formanbob]

sod cutter , yep... with all the work I have to , building my spaceship and all , I didn't have time to strip the sod by hand right Porky...

He he

 

[lakee911]

Hey that'll be nice. I've often thought of killing off the yard and re-seeding. Should be nice for you!

Ya, I am the only sod cutter I've ever known too!

What kind of landscapijng you puttin' in?

Weather needs to warm up, huh? Porch is still awaitin'.... too cold today...

 

[jh2pizza]

I have an area I need to reseed after the dozer was done with it last winter. Want to come over and do mine to?

http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e32/jh2pizza/?action=view&current=Picture001-1.jpg

 

[formanbob]

No problem, I will Pencil you in..

 

[jh2pizza]

I am wondering what I will seed it down with. I want the same stuff the state uses. A guy hyrdoseeds it in the morning, another guy around lunch blows straw onto it. About 4 that afternoon, their mowing. That stuff will grow on guard rail

 

[lakee911]

Hahaha, that's funny, jh2. Hydroseeding really does help, but I think the trick is getting good seed, having warm earth, getting plenty down, covering with a little dirt and lots of water.

Before you seed, maybe you should run some pex under your yard a foot or so for geothermal tank cooling in the summer?

 

[jh2pizza]

I may try that someday in my lawn, but not in the horse field. We are building a round pen and need to get it seeded next weekend. I think I am going to rent the machine chops up the straw and blows it out. I have an acre to cover and no time.

 

[RokleM]

I overseed with a 50/50 mixture of kentucky blue grass and perennial rye. My base lawn was POS weed infested, coarse fescue infested, crab grass infested MI garbage. If I did it from scratch, I'd still use that 50/50 combo.