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Nana's are Beautiful
husband's hoarding in the house is bad enough. Seriously, Nichole and I were working in the family room last weekend and we BOTH felt like we'd fallen into an episode of hoarders. And there is STILL much more to do in that area alone.
But the yard is about to make me just start screaming and not shut up. No joke.
The front yard is fine. husband kept up with it enough for "appearances" sake that it didn't go wild on me. I can manage it.
The back yard is a disaster area. Nichole and her husband helped me swing blade and weed eat the weeds down and do the garden area. In comparison to what it looked like when they started......(think jungle folks these weeds were well over my head and huge) it looked great. Now, it hasn't gotten like that again because I go out when I can and swing blade it down again. But digging up the weeds............when it's more weeds than grass........is proving to be probably a couple of years work at least. If I ever manage to beat it because they're sprouting new plants faster than I can get them out of the ground.
I don't like to use Round up for 2 reasons. 1. Nichole is horribly allergic to the stuff. (she helps me fairly often out there) and 2. the dogs And I'll add a reason because husband has done it several times and the darn things just come right back.
I want grass, not a yard full of various weeds, some the size of freaking jungle plants (no joke, they've got an 18 in leaf span), but it seems like I"m making no progress whatsoever.
And no I can't afford to have someone come in to do it. And yes, I'm about to go buy several gallons of Round up or something similar (despite Nichole and the dogs) and spray the devil out of the entire back yard. Then dump a ton of grass seed on it and water the heck out of it until it grows.
OMG but I hate hate hate putting chemicals on my yard/plants. But this is out of control. The thistles alone are about to drive me insane. I get rid of them in a spot and they pop up in a new one because the darn things reproduce so fast.
Any ideas?
Years ago we had to start from scratch back there because it was nothing but dead dirt and a few scraggly weeds. I had all the weeds gone and the dirt healthy with good grass growing for about 2 yrs or so. Then I went to school and husband let is start going to heck. Last summer he didn't mow/cut it down once and so now it's the Jungle. The dirt is far from dead now, and I've got every weed known to man.
It's very quickly overwhelming the one person who has to care for it. Me. ugh
But the yard is about to make me just start screaming and not shut up. No joke.
The front yard is fine. husband kept up with it enough for "appearances" sake that it didn't go wild on me. I can manage it.
The back yard is a disaster area. Nichole and her husband helped me swing blade and weed eat the weeds down and do the garden area. In comparison to what it looked like when they started......(think jungle folks these weeds were well over my head and huge) it looked great. Now, it hasn't gotten like that again because I go out when I can and swing blade it down again. But digging up the weeds............when it's more weeds than grass........is proving to be probably a couple of years work at least. If I ever manage to beat it because they're sprouting new plants faster than I can get them out of the ground.
I don't like to use Round up for 2 reasons. 1. Nichole is horribly allergic to the stuff. (she helps me fairly often out there) and 2. the dogs And I'll add a reason because husband has done it several times and the darn things just come right back.
I want grass, not a yard full of various weeds, some the size of freaking jungle plants (no joke, they've got an 18 in leaf span), but it seems like I"m making no progress whatsoever.
And no I can't afford to have someone come in to do it. And yes, I'm about to go buy several gallons of Round up or something similar (despite Nichole and the dogs) and spray the devil out of the entire back yard. Then dump a ton of grass seed on it and water the heck out of it until it grows.
OMG but I hate hate hate putting chemicals on my yard/plants. But this is out of control. The thistles alone are about to drive me insane. I get rid of them in a spot and they pop up in a new one because the darn things reproduce so fast.
Any ideas?
Years ago we had to start from scratch back there because it was nothing but dead dirt and a few scraggly weeds. I had all the weeds gone and the dirt healthy with good grass growing for about 2 yrs or so. Then I went to school and husband let is start going to heck. Last summer he didn't mow/cut it down once and so now it's the Jungle. The dirt is far from dead now, and I've got every weed known to man.
It's very quickly overwhelming the one person who has to care for it. Me. ugh