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mcgreenvegtables posted:What's wrong with just doing this step? You are going to kill the grass anyway, so the other steps seem like a lot of extra work for no return? I'm not sure how to level it if some has grass and some doesn't. I'm concerned there will be high spots with grass and low spots with out it.
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Dig out the high spots, dump them in the low spots.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I have a quick question about leveling a spot for a inflatable ring pool. In general, I have a reasonably flat lawn, but I want to get a spot really nice that I can put up a pool for the summer and take it down. I have a 15" inflatable ring pool. The spot I want to put it is a little lumpy (maybe a variables of 6"). It has a slight slope downwards as it goes from N->S which is where water goes way from the house. What is peat moss meant to achieve? Ideally no one should use *peat* anything as it’s directly destroying nature, but this seems an especially pointless use.
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Apr 22, 2021 11:26
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cakesmith handyman posted:Dig out the high spots, dump them in the low spots. This makes sense, but I was concerned about the pool sitting on the fresh dirt spots and collapsing it. I was figuring if I did it now and reused the sod (and put the pool up in a month) the grass would settle it more and make it compact, but maybe I can just rent a lawn roller instead use that to compact it. Maybe I can clarify my question. The entire spot has pretty good and thick grass. If I dig off a high spot and put it over a low slow spot, I'll have to dig out the grass on the low spot, right? I not sure how to manage putting fill dirt/sod squares from the high spot on top of grass in the lowspots. When the grass below decomposes won't it sink and make more low spots? I'm just not sure if that will work out, without having to dig up half of the grass by hand anyways. I was figuring I'd have to remove all the sod from the square, level all the dirt beneath and put all the sod back nice and level. But if my concerns of low spots compressing are nonsense, I'll just get a couple hoes and attack it. Super-NintendoUser fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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Apr 22, 2021 11:30
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The grass is going to die, why put so much effort into preserving it? Mow it short, like lowest setting short, thencakesmith handyman posted:Dig out the high spots, dump them in the low spots. Roll/compact/stamp them down every few days, it'll be flat enough.
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Apr 22, 2021 13:57
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cakesmith handyman posted:The grass is going to die, why put so much effort into preserving it? Mow it short, like lowest setting short, then Got it, I thought if it died and decomposed it'll shrink and cause a low spot there, but if not, I'll just string it up and level. I'll rent a yard roller for a few days and roll it out. It's just a 20x20 spot so it's not unmanagement.
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Apr 22, 2021 14:09
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I just hired a guy to do 2 acres of lilac / tag alder removal with a skidsteer chipper. 3 hours of work at $175 an hour. It's all inside of a 100 year old orchard that has the most monstrous apple and cherry trees I've ever seen. Should look pretty cool when he's all done. We've got a bunch of hawthorn, mountain ash and crab apple we'll be planting in a few weeks. The trick is going to be to keep the deer off of them. Anyone tried the tree tubes before? I'd rather not build an enclosure around all of the trees.
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Apr 23, 2021 16:43
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Yooper posted:Anyone tried the tree tubes before? I'd rather not build an enclosure around all of the trees. The problem I've had is that the trees I've planted aren't tall enough for tree tubes so the deer will just get on their hind legs and strip leaves/shoots anyway. If you're planting things that are tall enough already they should work great.
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Yooper posted:I just hired a guy to do 2 acres of lilac / tag alder removal with a skidsteer chipper. 3 hours of work at $175 an hour. It's all inside of a 100 year old orchard that has the most monstrous apple and cherry trees I've ever seen. Should look pretty cool when he's all done. We've got a bunch of hawthorn, mountain ash and crab apple we'll be planting in a few weeks. The trick is going to be to keep the deer off of them. I haven't personally but I plan to when I plant a bunch of hardwood seedlings. I think if you use them on small 1-2' seedlings, by the time they are growing out the top of a 5' tree tube they're going to have enough roots and other leaves to survive a little bit of deer browsing, but it probably depends just how many deer you have. A forester friend highly recommends them, especially in an old field situation where the trees are much more visible and accessible. No to mention the rabbits that like old fields. Deer also REALLY like new, fresh and fertilized from the nursery stuff, so protecting them that first year or two when they are adjusting to the native dirt (and start putting out leaves that are no tastier than the leaves in the woods) is really important. I've definitely noticed it where I've planted new 3gal plants. If I don't fence them they'll strip them bare in a year, but if I fence them for 2-3 years, they leave them mostly alone when the fence comes off and the plants are well established. They would rather eat tender, well fertilized new growth off fresh from the nursery a holly that is supposedly 'deer resistant' than the new growth of an oak in red clay. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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Heyo, just another question for the thread. I have a row of these hedges that I really like, and I'd like to get a few more to make the barrier longer. I don't know what they are. I'd like to get matching ones if possible.    They are about 3ft tall, and are evergreens. My wife thinks they are hemlocks, but I'm not sure. I tried making tea from it and drinking it but I didn't die, so I guess not. During the spring/summer they have those lighter tips, but then they are dark green the rest of the year.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Heyo, just another question for the thread. They're in the Yew family, either Taxus baccata or Taxus cuspidata. You're maybe joking about the tea, but in case you're not...don't eat plants if you don't know what they are!! There are seriously toxic species that could cause real health issues up to and including death! It's good to be curious, but don't experiment on yourself!!!! Most parts of the English Yew are ridiculously toxic and consumption can lead to death--don't gently caress around with drinking random plant tea, stick with the ones you know.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:They're in the Yew family, either Taxus baccata or Taxus cuspidata. I was joking, but thanks. It looks like it's the Japanese Plum Yew. Also, I'm really unhappy because my neighbor cut down a small beautiful flowering weeping cherry tree that was perfectly positioned on the corner of their lot, and it provided perfect shade and cover for my backyard. There's a pretty busy road that goes uphill that the tree blocked from having a view right in my backyard, during spring it had beautiful flowers that I were right out side a bunch of my windows. I'm livid. I have no idea why she had it removed. It was healthy, and I've talked to her about it before. She'd apologize that it hung into my drive way, but my wife and I made sure to tell her that we liked it. We'd help her trim it and all that too. It's nuts. Now that my backyard is basically open the street I have to figure out my own barrier now. I'm really considering getting my own tree and planting it, do they make a tree that will grow and look directly in to her windows and give her a dirty look?
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May 1, 2021 16:20
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I'm really considering getting my own tree and planting it, do they make a tree that will grow and look directly in to her windows and give her a dirty look? yes
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May 1, 2021 16:25
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Normally plants don’t have eyes, so it’s hard for me to trust them.
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People just love to cut down trees. I think there's a tendency to overemphasize their downsides and underappreciate their benefits. I'm in a similar spot this year because some new people moved into the house behind our lot and cut down all the trees on their side of the property line, so now when we sit on our patios we get to look straight at each other rather than at a wooded corridor. If we all did that there wouldn't be any trees left. Great job guys. e: actually they put in some little crape myrtles and then immediately topped them. So, you know, compromise.
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I was googling about grass feeding/seeding and ran across this page, https://www.scotts.com/en-us/library/lawn-care-basics/fall-best-time-seed-feed ...which itself is boring. But in the middle of it, on Scotts' official site, is this graphic which shows how to spread feed/seed:  I did an "is this real life?" double-take and thought the thread may appreciate the existence of this image on a real corporate website.
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It's pretty dope. But like what the fuckin poo poo is happening in that image?
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:It's pretty dope. But like what the fuckin poo poo is happening in that image? Clearly the second one comes from that greyscale universe of people in made-for-TV infomercials spilling poo poo everywhere after being unable to complete a task. Fitzy Fitz posted:People just love to cut down trees. I think there's a tendency to overemphasize their downsides and underappreciate their benefits. Does this count if the tree I want to cut down is a loving palm tree? It provides no shade, but it's tall enough that I'm going to have to pay someone to come maintain it once in a while. Much rather have something that I can more or less just let grow.
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May 2, 2021 22:01
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I'll allow it
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Leon Sumbitches posted:They're in the Yew family, either Taxus baccata or Taxus cuspidata. That's the famous Willkill Yew
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Fitzy Fitz posted:People just love to cut down trees. I think there's a tendency to overemphasize their downsides and underappreciate their benefits. I am your neighbor, except in my case the trees are garbage maples and one of them is dying and dropping branches onto my car big enough to leave giant dents and break windshields. Ask me how I know. My neighbor gets all weird when I float the idea of cutting some of them down. She had an arborist out who said to just let the branch dropper "die a peaceful death."
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There are a million valid reasons to remove a tree! I really do mean people who clear out a stand so that they can put in a lawn they never use, or cut down a healthy tree because they don't want to clean up after it. Today I cut down five massive hollies to nearly stumps because they were overgrown and scraping the house. They look like crap now but it needed to be done
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I had two decent sized Portuguese laurels in my smallish urban garden when I bought the place. Evergreen, block all light, dry up the soil underneath them and generally are a bit much. One is gone, the 2nd will probably go before the bend of the year. I’ve planted a bunch of new trees, so I don’t feel bad.
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mcgreenvegtables posted:I am your neighbor, except in my case the trees are garbage maples and one of them is dying and dropping branches onto my car big enough to leave giant dents and break windshields. Ask me how I know. Is this your tree or hers? If its her tree and its dropping branches on to your car, then you should be asking (telling) her to pay for the damage, or get rid of the fuckin tree.
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May 3, 2021 11:33
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It’s nice when there’s a healthy mature tree growing somewhere it’s wanted, but there are a lot of deadbeat trees out there.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:Is this your tree or hers? I think the branches are generally your responsibility if they're over your property.
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May 3, 2021 14:08
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:Is this your tree or hers? We both think it's my tree since it's on my side of a fence (but who knows what a formal survey would say). It's more I don't want to be a jerk and just cut down all the trees providing shade and privacy. This one definitely needs to go, the rest of the nuisance ones are healthy but it would be much cheaper to get them out while I'm getting the dying one.
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pmchem posted:I was googling about grass feeding/seeding and ran across this page, AmbassadorofSodomy posted:It's pretty dope. But like what the fuckin poo poo is happening in that image? I think they're trying to say "don't seed when it's windy", and just having fun with exaggeration.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I think the branches are generally your responsibility if they're over your property. Yeah, at least here pruning is your responsibility (as long as you don't damage the tree) if the branch is over your property. Once it falls you own it.
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Darchangel posted:I think they're trying to say "don't seed when it's windy", and just having fun with exaggeration. this is correct, fwiw i''m going to have rip two trees out of my yard (one is a hideous giant pine that i can replace) and the other is a giant elm that's now lifting up my deck and hardscaping that i'll probably just turn into a firepit or something
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My Greenworks lawn mower just arrived, and I noticed that the front right wheel does not touch the ground all the time. When I have it parked in the garage, I can spin the front right wheel pretty fairly. Is this a common issue? I would imagine this would affect how the mower cuts?
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Help, I want to put in a birdbath next to the feeder, but I’m completely paralyzed by indecision on what to buy. Thinking something that’s glazed... any recommendations in the hundredish dollar range?
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Bioshuffle posted:My Greenworks lawn mower just arrived, and I noticed that the front right wheel does not touch the ground all the time. When I have it parked in the garage, I can spin the front right wheel pretty fairly. Is this a common issue? I would imagine this would affect how the mower cuts? You did check that the wheel heights were adjusted correctly, I hope? All the wheels on my mower adjust independently.
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When all you have is a hammer....... Seemed like the easiest way to transplant the rhododendron. Was able to get a nice root ball that didn't fall apart because I just drove it down to where it was going and plopped it in. Yes, probably overkill but it's still a new-ish toy. I'm getting better with detail work on this thing.
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If I owned one of those I would find a way to do every chore with it. Laundry might be tricky but washing the car would be doable.
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cakesmith handyman posted:If I owned one of those I would find a way to do every chore with it. Laundry might be tricky but washing the car would be doable. 
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Is there a thread for mowers?
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NotNut posted:Is there a thread for mowers? There's a small engine repair thread in AI if you're talking repairs. Otherwise this would probably be the place for the rest.
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Something with a Honda engine. Next question!
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devmd01 posted:Something with a Honda engine. Next question! I really, really, love my Honda mower. Even with old gas after all winter it starts on the first or second pull every time.
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