Let’s see your front lawn skills

i got a 54" ztr cutting my 2.5 acre lot. so it takes about an hour to cut it all. about 15-30 mins to edge/trim the yard. depends if i do the trees and pond and all. but doing the yard and washing vehicles is my "me time" that my wife lets me do when i need to relieve stress or anything. seeing something go from shabby/dirty to neat/clean is refreshing to me. put on some tunes and go at it....thats some good stuff. almost as good as the cold beer when i'm done.

 

Not bad on your time cutting. I bought a JD zero turn 54" last year and it is much faster and a lot more fun vs. my old 50" garden tractor. I'm learning to drink and mow now, so makes the job even more enjoyable! I try to keep my Tundra in the garage and only drive occasionally as that sucker is a 1/2 day job to wash. I drive a '98 Taco daily, so it's much easier on my old body parts.

 

Many Thanks! I'm kinda anal so I spend too much time on stuff most people don't care about...especially two and three years olds!

 

hell yea on the taco!
I'm pretty anal myself.
But apparently not too bad as I have 4 kids (7 years old and under) with a 5th on the way

 

Tall Fescue here in Tennessee. We haven't had rain in almost two weeks so I've been having to water every other day.

 

This was 9 days ago. Took the drone up to get a photo. The drought has kicked in. Been watering every other day here too.

 

Not what I was hoping for.


The Centipede just doesn't seem to be creeping like I expected. I did miss weed and feed in the spring. Gotta touch up the mulch.
Not sure I'm good on the level of the mower deck. Seems a bit of a dip on the lhs.

 

Looks pretty good to me! Just hit those sidewalks with a pressure washer and it will make your grass look even better..

 

It's been a good year for my fescue so far.

 

I just surpassed the weeds to grass ratio recently. Now my weeds are the minority in my yard by a slim margin

 

That's how my yard was when we bought the house in May of 2021. Literally all weeds.

By September I killed it and started over. I had a friend help me make this redneck daisy chain for irrigation. It worked.

Then in June of 2022 we got a record heat wave and I was in Spain. My new grass got wrecked. It's just now recovering. The front yard still has some places you can't see in my last picture that haven't grown back. Hopefully by this fall.

 

Sucks to put that work into it and lose it!
My front yard is about 200'x150' since I'm on 2.5 acres. I'd love to redo my whole yard, or even just my front yard, but that'd be a HUGE undertaking. Most of the spots that are overtaken with weeds are where the dirt was brought in to build my house pad. It's come a long way, but I'm still fighting a little bit of stuff. Maybe one day when we get old and buy a smaller house n yard I'll be able to keep it up. But that'll be another 25-30 years from now

 

My tall fescue has been holding up great even though we need some rain.

 

Not using my time to mow. We get it all mowed (once this year so far) in half a tank on our 20” pusher. We love color and my wife has the greenest thumb you can find…

 

corner of the back yard. cut at around 3 3/4", no striping kit.

 

work in progress with our st augustine

FRONT YARD


BACK YARD

 

stricly rain and cutting tall routine. this was cut at 4". i have a schnauzer, but he doesn't leave any marks or dead spots (prob cuz he's only about 30 lbs-so small piles and pee spots)
i also try to cut every 5 days to keep within the 1/3 rule. but i picked this up from 3-3/4" to 4" 5 days later and I was still taking some off.
during other times of the year, i don't have to cut near as often due to cold or heat.
now the front yard, i've been putting a little bit of Scott's weed n feed down, but that's only 2-4 times a year max. my front yard is over 10k sqft, so it gets to be a lot. my whole lot is just over 2.5 acres, so fertilizing it all would be a hell of an endeavor between time and money.

 

seems like a lot, but it depends on how fast your grass is growing. i'm also assuming you have st augustine as well. i personally would say 2x's a week is too much, but only cuz i've tried and the results weren't as good. it seemed keeping to every 4 or 5 days worked better for me. other than that, it's back to once a week when it slows down.

 

Looking good as usual Bryan. Do you have irrigation?

 

Holy moly! How long does it take to cut something like that?

 

I've got a 54" ztr, so it takes me about an hour +/-, depending on the way i cut (north/south, east/west, 45 angle one way/other way, or circular)

 

Any ideas what's going on in my yard? what's this black stuff cropping up?


Been in a dry spell, haven't rained in about a week. I've been watering for an hour every other day.
this is a shot of the rest of the yard.

 

Not 100% sure, but it's probably fungus. I'm having that problem right now and it loves heat and humidity...

 

Thanks, it's Slime Mold. I've been watering the front yard during a dry spell we've been having locally but the last week we've been dumped on. Looks like grass has recovered well. What's your location @Badknees ?

 

I'm in Anderson. Good to know you found the problem. I have fescue, so fungus is always an issue on my lawn this time of year....Just have to make it until late September when I can over-seed again.

 

Hey Neighbor. I'm in Due West...

Clemson Extension website said it's normal, when I was watering it did pool up there a bit. They said it should be gone in a couple of weeks and they wus right. The good soaking we've been getting last couple of days has really helped.

 

Us people in SoCal don’t do much grass…it’s more of a mulch thang