Yard Care

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My neighbor has evergreens lining his back yard and the grass around them is immaculate. Don’t think he does anything special to it but he does have the trees trimmed to be 3-4 feet above the ground and has 4-5 feet diameter of mulch around each tree.

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Damn. The grass everywhere around it looks fantastic too. Probably part of it. I'm doing something wrong lol

 

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Used to have evergreen, pine trees...you are correct, too much acidity in the soil under the tree. I agree with Hugh...mulch the shit out of it or the understory plants (whatever those are).

My cousin's wife's dad owns a lawn care company and he said broad mulch underneath the trees may be the best option to look better.

 

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I would just mulch under them and/or plant some understory plants if they're limbed up enough.

I'm told that may be the best strategy. Thank you.

 

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I'll post a couple photos here shortly for context.

 

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Damn. The grass everywhere around it looks fantastic too. Probably part of it. I'm doing something wrong lol

I copied him 3 years ago and my lawn is just about caught up to him. We both use sunco which I think is 6 times a year program plus aerate/overseed in the fall. I also dethatched last year and that has helped tremendously.

 

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I copied him 3 years ago and my lawn is just about caught up to him. We both use sunco which I think is 6 times a year program plus aerate/overseed in the fall. I also dethatched last year and that has helped tremendously.

Is that somewhere I can pick up the fertilizer or I pay and they come to me? I'll be totally honest, I've been doing it basically on my own the last two years from Grass Pad and I've really enjoyed it. Grass Pad has done great now that the sprinkler system has fully kicked in and the terrain from install has fully settled, I think I just need to master the water schedule compared to the time of year part now.

 

[Toe]

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Hard to tell from the pic, but those look more like fir or spruce? Needles look too short to be pine.

But anyway, yeah, scratch my insufficient sunlight comment - those don't look to be casting much shade. Looks like you might have some erosion issues there, like some of the topsoil has washed away. That could contribute to grasses having difficulty taking root, especially with the competition from tree roots.

There's various things you could try planting in that area, but by far the easiest would be just to mulch it and call it good. Try taking a string trimmer and scalp as much of the existing grass/weeds as you can without damaging the tree roots, then put down like a 4-5" layer of mulch.