- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: When did Lawns become such a Headache??
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:18 am to FLObserver
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:18 am to FLObserver
I bought a robot lawnmower last year and let it run 4 times a week. This thing is awesome and my yard has never looked better.
I cut around the edges with my walk behind weekly and edge/weed eat as needed but its soooo much better than fighting the yard all the time.
I cut around the edges with my walk behind weekly and edge/weed eat as needed but its soooo much better than fighting the yard all the time.
0
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:46 am to FLObserver
Around 85 when I was 16!I worked at a feed and seed store and got a bunch of ammonium nitrate for free because the bags were busted. I put it down in our front yard as it had never been fertilized. It was the lushest fastest growing st aug you have ever seen for the summer. My dad was furious at the mowings going up to every three or four days. No one kept a manicured lawn then, hell no one owned a weed eater.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:49 am to FLObserver
Idk man....I just have the neighborhood kids mow mine every few weeks.......sorry your lawn is a diva
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:55 am to FLObserver
Builders use low quality fill to level properties and for house pads. Commercial mowing spreads tons of weeds between accounts. Nationwide plant shipments speed up the spread of weeds to new areas.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:13 am to FLObserver
Plants used to be healthier back in the day because there was more carbon in the air
Plants are suffocating because of Jeff Landry’s carbon capture
Plants are suffocating because of Jeff Landry’s carbon capture
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:19 am to tonydtigr
quote:
When your neighbors torpedo grass grows over into your lawn and vegetable and flower gardens.
My version of this is nutsedge. My neighbor’s yard is half fricking sedge grass. I recently weeded and tilled up a raised bed; a week later, it looks like I’m growing a nutsedge lawn in there
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:22 am to el Gaucho
quote:
el Gaucho
Where’s LucasP when we need him
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:23 am to FLObserver
I remember having 4 leaf clovers when I was growing up, not all of this torpedo grass and other crap that grows in lawns now.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:25 am to FLObserver
To OP: I think part of it is the expectation that things like white clover are “weeds”. But, I think part of it is a shift in weather patterns in the summer. Growing up, it seems like we got afternoon showers very frequently. Now, we’ll go weeks without rain and then have a deluge. If you look up the annual rain totals, they don’t look much different, but the latter pattern causes far more stress on turf grass, which then lets weeds more easily invade.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:40 am to cubsfan5150
quote:
Where’s LucasP when we need him
I asked him politely, yet firmly, to leave
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:40 am to FLObserver
quote:
Remember growing up in South Louisiana as a kid and cutting the grass weekly . Seemed like it just grew and just mowed no issue. Fast forward 30 plus years later living in an HOA community and trying to keep the Sh*t from dying from fungus/disease, wrong PH , getting overrun with every weed know to man and those dam moles digging it up. I have unwillingly had to learn proper PH techniques , various chemicals for fungicide treatments and setting traps for moles. First world problems i know but getting ready to pull it all up and layout the artificial turf. Anyone else have lawn issues? probably not since probably the only one on the OT that doesnt have a Lawn crew/personal gardener taking care of their yard.
I pay some one to mow and a separate company to treat weeds and fungus. They can’t even get that shite right
I’ve got crabgrass and sand spurs. Between the $300 water bills in the summer and $2500 a year for weed and fertilizer I’m thinking of just letting that shite go and giving up.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:41 am to FLObserver
If you're on 1/2 or more, green is grass.
For less, it gets more complicated. I consider myself a basic lawn maintainer. I didn't obsess over anything for a while. Then, I got introduced to nutsedge that couldn't be easily killed with common treatments like Sedge Hammer. I became obsessive about it, grabbing the sprayer after every daily trip to the bus stop when I'd see a little patch that needed to die. My old hood slowly got taken over with sedge, because most of the homeowners just hired Latinos to cut their lawns, and paid no more attention to it.
Then I moved into a new hood, and spurge is everywhere, and always multiplying because of how it spreads. And then another kind of weed I've dug up, thrown Round up at repeatedly, and it keeps growing back, and
spreading, because none of the neighbors think it's a problem.
For less, it gets more complicated. I consider myself a basic lawn maintainer. I didn't obsess over anything for a while. Then, I got introduced to nutsedge that couldn't be easily killed with common treatments like Sedge Hammer. I became obsessive about it, grabbing the sprayer after every daily trip to the bus stop when I'd see a little patch that needed to die. My old hood slowly got taken over with sedge, because most of the homeowners just hired Latinos to cut their lawns, and paid no more attention to it.
Then I moved into a new hood, and spurge is everywhere, and always multiplying because of how it spreads. And then another kind of weed I've dug up, thrown Round up at repeatedly, and it keeps growing back, and
spreading, because none of the neighbors think it's a problem.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:47 am to el Gaucho
quote:
I asked him politely, yet firmly, to leave
At least we still have oysterpoboy
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:48 am to FLObserver
It’s really not as difficult as you’re making it out to be. Find a fertilizer schedule for your grass type and region, put your sprinkler system on an automated schedule, spray for broadleaf weeds a couple of times a year, and mow at the recommended height for your lawn type.
Do those four things consistently, and your lawn will look better than 90% of your neighbors’ lawns.
Do those four things consistently, and your lawn will look better than 90% of your neighbors’ lawns.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:48 am to gumbo2176
quote:
It's dying back and could use a good watering--------wait until it rains and until then, it grows slower and needs less cutting----------win/win.
People even throw down seed now to keep it green longer in the winter. I look forward to that last cut in the fall.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 9:53 am to FLObserver
I use lliquid fertilizer once a month. Thats all the pros do except its in a container on their truck. I use liquid pre emergent a couple of times during weed growing season. Quit cutting your yard short. I know u do.
Page 2 of 2
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News