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After many years of only having a push mower and it taking me 90 minutes to mow the lawn, I am finally getting a riding mower tomorrow morning. I absolutely hate mowing the grass and by mid summer would rather take a beating than mow. My plan is to show my wife how much fun it is to ride the mower, that she can work on her tan while enjoying this fabulous machine. Also how cute she looks riding it.
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The answer to mowing is salt, applied liberally to the entire yard. Nothing will grow for decades, it looks terrible, but hey! no mowing.I hate mowing, too. For now, I have a 17-year-old hamburger-powered mower. When he leaves home, I'll buy a riding mower.
I think she wanted it more than I. Great investment, we needed a new mower anyway so worth it in our case. Depends on your wife I guess. My wifes biggest concern was that it had a drink holder. :)
She looks good riding it.
Go ahead and take a piccie or two, "especially if she's riding it while "work(ing) on her tan...", and I'm sure you will get no end of opinions and comments from the likes of us!!:)
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
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anywhere near the sales guy. Next thing you know they'll be having an affair and she'll run away with him and you'll find a John Deere letter on the kitchen table
jac - desperaudio
up in the Great White? Although there is a touch of admiration in the groan.
Unless you live where rain-fall alone will sustain it, you shouldn't be using water to sustain one.IMO lawns are a waste:- of time, effort, water, thought, mowing time, one's hearing, petrol, and fertilizer. And they even manage to waste rain by letting go of it.
Find out what your egion'susual native grouncover is, grass or not, and plant it. otherwise ......
Try mulch, maaate! and spend the time and effort and $$$ saved on growing food.
You never know, we all might need to know how.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
the region's usual ground cover is Maples and Cottonwoods. Don't think I could mow them! Probly bend the blade on my mower. :-OGod waters my lawn with rain. Otherwise it's on it's own. Don't need no stinkin Sevin Dust neither. I have the mower set to cut the grass to 10cm and that chokes out the crab grass, dandilions, etc. I'm all for doing it the natural way like you suggest.
Chemicals eventually end up in the water table or the Chesapeake Bay, which is very close by. Not good.
cheers,
roN
My new home could easly suport grass lots of rain in S WI but what a waist of time and cash keeping such a beast one of the largest source of polution is lawn sourced.I use rain gardens a pond catchs rain over flow.Wild flower prarie, mulched areas, garden areas, walking trails that are mulched.Planting a orchard that will be mulched so I dont need to trim. I still get to greatly enjoy my yard I can eat and fish take a nice walk etc and I dont spend much time taking care of this maybe 2 hours a month max...Before with a 3rd of the land, took 2 hours a week to mow weed trim etc...Time is money, think of the gass saved, equipment costs, I just sold my honda mower..No pesticide- herbicide etc another cash savings and good for the earth.Screw the green lawn its killin us slow
Good for you Kloss! What are you planting in your orchard?
Since I like to DIY time for wine,plus planting a few apples, cherrys, plums,pears, honey berrys arround a 150 plants ouch will take me 2 years to plant it all, still working on my pond fish are jumping this spring.Have to finish my water tanks that collect rain water.When I built the place I set it up for passive solar active solar and wind turbine will cost me $28000 for alt power but at least my homes sited roofs wired for this just need the cash maybe next year I can scrap it together.
I have a small apple and and pear orchard and one peach. I hope to start making cider this fall and maybe eventually perry. The brother of a good friend of mine just planted quite a few grape vines in SW Wisconsin. If you are in extreme eastern Wisconsin you might have a chance of growing Asimina triloba (Pawpaw).
Sounds like a nice setup Kloss.
My lawn survives on rainfall alone. No watering. If it dries up and dies, so be it. It comes back next year. I do spray twice in the spring to kill the weeds and apply an insect killer (we have 3 dogs) to kill fleas, ticks and ants.I am not sure what the local ground cover is, but in my neighborhood a natural yard that was not mowed would soon get me in trouble with the local gov't. So I really have little choice about having a lawn, unless I made it a rock yard.
..... A pic of about 20% of the lawns around my home. Never been artificially watered and never been fertilized.Most people cut their lawns way too short. About 65mm-70mm is usually ideal.
Australia has heaps of fresh water. Unfortunately State & Federal Government of both persuasions choose not to spend the money to store it & divert it as it is a long term project that will take several terms of government to implement. (absolutely no incentive for pollies to act)
Greater Sydney alone uses about 50 million gallons per day of fresh drinking water to flush piss & shit into the ocean. One of these days a pollie with balls will actually make some hard decisions about water use in this country. While ever all levels of government take advice from the public service nothing will change.
Sox can solve the problem in a heartbeat. No consultation, no experts, no environmental impact statements, no working parties, no costing whatsoever.
It simple and easy to do but takes lots of money that most mouths don’t like to part with.
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and if your wife is anything like my wife, you have no chance whatsoever talking her into mowing the lawn. They are to cagey to fall for slick and clever lines; they go straight to the end result (yard work). Actually, it's a good idea, but I don't think it will work.
same result
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
and you are probably right. But it won't hurt to try. She isn't an outdoors person, so my chances aren't promising.At least if I am mowing it will cut down on time by a considerable amount.
...and my wife loved working in the yard with me and mowing the lawn. She divorced me a year ago, but that's another unrelated story.
i`m was married 20 years, she loved to plant trees and flowers....never could get her to mow the lawn even with a John Deere riding mower and 54`` deck. maybe it was the 2 acres. oh well, i still have the mower, house and stereo.
... I had to sell my beautiful home and sell my stereo to pay off all the divorce bills,etc. I never could understand how a woman could stay married for so long and then suddenly want out. Beats the hell out of me... I'm still scratching my head.
I've seen that happen almost as much in women as men. But it seems women are the only ones allowed to complain when it happens to them.
...she's already getting married again...to a man 10 years younger than her.
He's not going to know what hit him!
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Women and men both go through mid-life crisis( my wife and I both did), but you're right. Women appear to win out on the situation. They seem to have the right to go looney when their hormones go out of whack, but a man doesn't.
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