Yard Care

[Boondock_St_Sker]

I get them randomly. Normally shaded areas after a good amount of moisture

You said moist

 

[David Webb]

Is that a good thing? I have some shrooms scattered throughout my yard

Means you have plenty of moisture and organic matter in your lawn, so not a bad thing. They’ll go away once it drys out.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

My backyard is an absolute mess right now. There is a new construction house going in behind me and they don’t have any runoff mitigation like a silt fence in place. What’s frustrating is they had one in place when they started in the winter, but at some point removed it.

I realize in Elkhorn we have pretty much had record rainfall for May, so some runoff probably couldn’t be avoided, but since the builder has done nothing, I have 10-15 feet of pretty much my entire back fence line now covered in inches of sticky clay that will likely kill the majority of the grass and cause issues with weeds later in the summer. It is also covering multiple sprinkler heads. And it has happened to at least 2 other neighbors, but possibly 3-4.

I have reached out to the builder and had a response from someone at the company that I should be hearing from them shortly. I feel like asking them for a large load of good top soil, high quality seed, starter fertilizer, and probably some weed prevent and maybe some peat moss or something for coverage would be fair. I have no problem doing the work myself, but I don’t think I should need to pay for their fuck up.

Anyone ever had anything similar happen and if so, how did it go after? Thoughts on how to fix it prior to eventually reseeding in the fall? I sent a couple hours out there trying to take some of it and shovel it off, but I think it is pretty much a lost cause, and if they don’t put in some type of mitigation, it won’t matter anyway as it will just keep happening.

For reference, here is what the lawn looked like in early spring:


And here is the shit I have now:

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

My backyard is an absolute mess right now. There is a new construction house going in behind me and they don’t have any runoff mitigation like a silt fence in place. What’s frustrating is they had one in place when they started in the winter, but at some point removed it.

I realize in Elkhorn we have pretty much had record rainfall for May, so some runoff probably couldn’t be avoided, but since the builder has done nothing, I have 10-15 feet of pretty much my entire back fence line now covered in inches of sticky clay that will likely kill the majority of the grass and cause issues with weeds later in the summer. It is also covering multiple sprinkler heads. And it has happened to at least 2 other neighbors, but possibly 3-4.

I have reached out to the builder and had a response from someone at the company that I should be hearing from them shortly. I feel like asking them for a large load of good top soil, high quality seed, starter fertilizer, and probably some weed prevent and maybe some peat moss or something for coverage would be fair. I have no problem doing the work myself, but I don’t think I should need to pay for their fuck up.

Anyone ever had anything similar happen and if so, how did it go after? Thoughts on how to fix it prior to eventually reseeding in the fall? I sent a couple hours out there trying to take some of it and shovel it off, but I think it is pretty much a lost cause, and if they don’t put in some type of mitigation, it won’t matter anyway as it will just keep happening.

For reference, here is what the lawn looked like in early spring:
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And here is the shit I have now:
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I’m sad

 

[Toe]

another question...I have an alley behind my property that I believe belongs to the city of Swimtown...There are weeds GALORE back there. I've tried Roundup and other things but nothing kills that shit...any suggestions?

OK first of all, just to verify, you're using actual Roundup, aka glyphosate? (And not the 'kills weeds but not grass' stuff.) Because there ain't much that glyphosate won't kill, but you might need to be persistent with multiple treatments 10-14 days apart.

I would download a plant ID app like PlantNet onto your phone and try to figure out what spawn of Satan you're dealing with.

 

[Adolph Coors]

I keep thinking to myself "i should probably finally turn the sprinklers on this year" and then i look at the forecast and see that it's supposed to rain 3 out of the next 5 days. I don't think I've ever made it to June without turning on the sprinklers before.

i have to mow every 3 days and my pastures are the tallest theyve ever been.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

Last weekend I mixed the 2-4 d a little heavy....got some nice brown spots where I spot sprayed dandelions....idiot!

I’ve been lucky that I haven’t had hardly any weeds this year.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

OK first of all, just to verify, you're using actual Roundup, aka glyphosate? (And not the 'kills weeds but not grass' stuff.) Because there ain't much that glyphosate won't kill, but you might need to be persistent with multiple treatments 10-14 days apart.

I would download a plant ID app like PlantNet onto your phone and try to figure out what spawn of Satan you're dealing with.

I will check, thanks

 

[vailhusker]

This is my mom's yard back in the 308. She's 70 and still mows and does all her yard maintenance/landscaping with the help of my 9 year old nephew. She does have someone come and spray for her. Last year she even bought a little truck so she could go pick up all her mulch and plants and other yard stuff. My mom and dad were always big yard people but my dad passed away almost 7 years ago and was sick quite awhile before that so my mom has been doing it all since then. She was sending me a picture of the house across the street so it's not the greatest picture and doesn’t show all her landscaping etc around the house and her backyard set up.

 

[Jim14510]

This is my mom's yard back in the 308. She's 70 and still mows and does all her yard maintenance/landscaping with the help of my 9 year old nephew. She does have someone come and spray for her. Last year she even bought a little truck so she could go pick up all her mulch and plants and other yard stuff. My mom and dad were always big yard people but my dad passed away almost 7 years ago and was sick quite awhile before that so my mom has been doing it all since then. She was sending me a picture of the house across the street so it's not the greatest picture and doesn’t show all her landscaping etc around the house and her backyard set up.

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I've always loved how neatly trimmed your mom's lawn is.

 

[vailhusker]

I've always loved how neatly trimmed your mom's lawn is.

 

[SlumpBuster]

 

[Frogsker30]

So my dumbass wasn’t paying attention a week or so ago and I grabbed my poison ivy spray from my garage instead of normal roundup.

I currently have a decent portion of my backyard dead af.

Any suggestions to revive it. The area is maybe 100sqft

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

So my dumbass wasn’t paying attention a week or so ago and I grabbed my poison ivy spray from my garage instead of normal roundup.

I currently have a decent portion of my backyard dead af.

Any suggestions to revive it. The area is maybe 100sqft

Probably wanna water the area thoroughly & repeatedly. Will help bring back anything on the edge, and wash out the spray. Most likely gonna need to reseed some, but you'll wanna give it a little time so it doesn't kill the seedlings. Check the label of your spray for what it says about that. Then pull out the dead stuff, add some starter fertilizer, and rebuild.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Is the nuclear-level sunshine causing massive amounts of weeds to pop up in everyone else's yard too? I did the pre-emergent at the beginning of the year, and have done one application each of weed-n-feed & a standard fertilizer over the last couple months. Been watering regularly to keep things healthy & green, but every year when we have a stretch like this, the weeds go absolutely nuts, even with a pretty healthy & thick yard.

Almost all the weed sprays & treatments say not to apply in these types of temps, and I don't want to add stress to grass that's getting scorched. Do all you yard godfathers just ride it out & wait a few weeks to treat anything, or what's the best move here?

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Is the nuclear-level sunshine causing massive amounts of weeds to pop up in everyone else's yard too? I did the pre-emergent at the beginning of the year, and have done one application each of weed-n-feed & a standard fertilizer over the last couple months. Been watering regularly to keep things healthy & green, but every year when we have a stretch like this, the weeds go absolutely nuts, even with a pretty healthy & thick yard.

Almost all the weed sprays & treatments say not to apply in these types of temps, and I don't want to add stress to grass that's getting scorched. Do all you yard godfathers just ride it out & wait a few weeks to treat anything, or what's the best move here?

You wouldn’t want to use the sprays and treatments for your entire yard as that would add unneeded stress to the healthy turf. Spot treatments to just the affected area would be no real problem.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

I've always loved how neatly trimmed your mom's lawn is.

ole butter fingers Jim after it again I see !

 

[Frogsker30]

Probably wanna water the area thoroughly & repeatedly. Will help bring back anything on the edge, and wash out the spray. Most likely gonna need to reseed some, but you'll wanna give it a little time so it doesn't kill the seedlings. Check the label of your spray for what it says about that. Then pull out the dead stuff, add some starter fertilizer, and rebuild.

might be a blessing in disguises as Ive been wanting to change the type of grass.

 

[HCFord1]

Is the nuclear-level sunshine causing massive amounts of weeds to pop up in everyone else's yard too? I did the pre-emergent at the beginning of the year, and have done one application each of weed-n-feed & a standard fertilizer over the last couple months. Been watering regularly to keep things healthy & green, but every year when we have a stretch like this, the weeds go absolutely nuts, even with a pretty healthy & thick yard.

Almost all the weed sprays & treatments say not to apply in these types of temps, and I don't want to add stress to grass that's getting scorched. Do all you yard godfathers just ride it out & wait a few weeks to treat anything, or what's the best move here?

I didn’t have time to put new mulch down this year and all of the landscaping beds are completely insane. Every week there’s 10 new weeds that have grown 3 ft tall that I have to pull or dig out (pokeweed is a motherfucker).

 

[vailhusker]

Is the nuclear-level sunshine causing massive amounts of weeds to pop up in everyone else's yard too? I did the pre-emergent at the beginning of the year, and have done one application each of weed-n-feed & a standard fertilizer over the last couple months. Been watering regularly to keep things healthy & green, but every year when we have a stretch like this, the weeds go absolutely nuts, even with a pretty healthy & thick yard.

Almost all the weed sprays & treatments say not to apply in these types of temps, and I don't want to add stress to grass that's getting scorched. Do all you yard godfathers just ride it out & wait a few weeks to treat anything, or what's the best move here?

Nothing likes hot ass weather like weeds your whole damn lawn could burn up and the weeds would still be going strong. Probably have to spot spray or pull them.

I've seen a bunch of ads for these kinds of things. I don't know if they work or if they are even made worth a shit though.

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