The only way to truly get rid of dandelions is to poison the heck out of your lawn. The closest you'll get otherwise is to hand-dig them out every year, which will slowly reduce their numbers.
Or you can learn to love your dandelions, and fry them up like the Italians do (they're delicious.)
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My HOA considers clovers weeds, so I can't have clovers in my yard even though I think they look nice.
start a campaign to disband your hoa
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the other problem with ridding yourself of dandelions is your neighbors. if they don't have the same level of commitment then you will never be free. i'm not saying don't make the effort, just embrace the reality that they spread very easy.
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Aioua am I remembering right that you're in the Seattle area? I got the same compulsion last year and didn't wanna load the lawn up with stuff to run off into the water or go into my kid's mouth, and read an article from the Sequim Gazette (that I'm not finding right now) suggesting you just reseed twice a year. You do it in late November and early February and the grass will germinate and grow in the bare spots where a weed would before it is warm enough for the weeds to. The other critical component is to keep your lawn longer, 3-3.5" iirc, so that the weed seeds have less sunlight. According to this article it will take a few years but if you do those two things consistently it'll fill in nicely without needing a bunch of chemicals poured onto it (and the local waterways). There will always be some weeds present, but not tons. I started last fall and I do already see a lot of little places where grass is filling in (I notice it because at least these clumps are a different variety than what I started with).
Speaking of weeds in the lawn, my neighbor has what I thought was some very pretty vines growing on the rod iron fence between our yards. They have beautiful purple flowers in the fall. Though I've started to notice that it has absolutely been infesting my lawn and garden beds. A quick googling shows this is bindweed, and incredibly invasive weed and also responsible for the invasion of black flies in my yard attracted to it. Pretty much the only way to kill it is with chemicals (ie Round Up). Even covering it with black plastic for years won't kill it, since it can grow up to 20ft underground to shoot back up somewhere else. So I think my only option is to go nuclear. I gotta spray the gardenbeds with Round Up, cover with black plastic for a year or two, stealthily snip every bud that tries to grow on the fence, and continue to spray my lawn with the lawn-safe Round Up until it's gone. It sucks that I have to resort to a herbicide like this though as my lawn has a pretty fair amount of green clover in it, which I like for its appearance and drought tolerance (and also helps the bees), but the Round Up will likely kill it all, and I'll have to re-seed clover in a few years.
Is that just to keep things pretty during summer or is it necessary to keep things from dying?
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I believe it is something that you do so your grandchildren will go "you wasted potable water on WHAT?" when they ask you how society was back in the day.
Grass rebounds well. The kind of drought that it would take to actually kill your lawn would kill everything else too. People who water regularly expect it to look like a golf course.
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We water the lawn around the perimeter of the house due to fire danger during the summer, and the flower beds and garden beds. The rest of the lawn is left to dry out.
Is that just to keep things pretty during summer or is it necessary to keep things from dying?
Not necessary. Grass (in western WA at least) isn't dead when it is brown, it's going dormant. It is 100% normal and it will come back just fine when it rains again. Watering it is just a struggle because you're preventing it from going dormant and pouring heaps of water on it in the time of year when it doesn't rain for months and we should be conserving.
Is your lawn new or well established? We have been in our house less than two years and keeping the sod alive was harder than dealing with a mature lawn. Even with watering after last summer I have a lot of thin and bare spots My wife is having trouble reconciling her desire for a lush lawn and wanting to be green in terms of water and chemicals. I told her I can pull dandelions but I am not pulling clover... At least not the disperse growing type.
Ah, yeah it's not fresh sod or anything, this lawn has been around the block.
Mix of what looks like a few different grasses, clover, various weeds, moss in the shady spots
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the other problem with ridding yourself of dandelions is your neighbors. if they don't have the same level of commitment then you will never be free. i'm not saying don't make the effort, just embrace the reality that they spread very easy.
I am the only thing standing between my nice older neighbor with a nice lawn and my largely absent neighbor with a lawn that is, no kidding, 100% various weeds.
I honestly like the way the weed lawn looks and hate the mono-cropping that is lawn maintenance, but somebody has to protect the city on the hill.
the other problem with ridding yourself of dandelions is your neighbors. if they don't have the same level of commitment then you will never be free. i'm not saying don't make the effort, just embrace the reality that they spread very easy.
This has been our struggle with thistle.
I'm nearing the point where I want to politely ask my neighbors if I can get rid of the thistle in their yard for them.
The only way to truly get rid of dandelions is to poison the heck out of your lawn. The closest you'll get otherwise is to hand-dig them out every year, which will slowly reduce their numbers.
I hand attack them with blood streaming from my eyes
The only way to truly get rid of dandelions is to poison the heck out of your lawn. The closest you'll get otherwise is to hand-dig them out every year, which will slowly reduce their numbers.
Decided not to pay anyone to mow my lawn this year and now doing it myself for the first time in a couple years. Boy I forgot how much this sucks.
Also my yard has gotten really uneven with lots of bumps and divots. Any way to fix that?
Aerating and rolling
Oh, shit, is that what aerating does?
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Decided not to pay anyone to mow my lawn this year and now doing it myself for the first time in a couple years. Boy I forgot how much this sucks.
Also my yard has gotten really uneven with lots of bumps and divots. Any way to fix that?
Aerating and rolling
Oh, shit, is that what aerating does?
Well I think you often aerate without rolling, to help fertilizer or water get further down to the roots. I suppose it makes sense that aerating with let the soil give way more for the roller. I have a super bumpy yard from a big (non grass)landscaping redo and I tried to use a tamper but it was slow going and then it broke.
Decided not to pay anyone to mow my lawn this year and now doing it myself for the first time in a couple years. Boy I forgot how much this sucks.
Also my yard has gotten really uneven with lots of bumps and divots. Any way to fix that?
Aerating and rolling
Oh, shit, is that what aerating does?
Aerating (especially plug aeration) let’s oxygen get into the ground and ultimately makes for a healthier lawn. It also helps to decompress the soil, and let’s water penetrate better (especially for lawns with a lot of thatch). It’s a great thing to do.
So, my ice maker feed tube froze up and started leaking water out of the back of the freezer. It’s a slow leak and for the moment I’ve turned the water off because I don’t have the time to unthaw it right now. How screwed am I? I’ve never had this happen before and I really don’t want to buy a new ice maker right now.
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So, my ice maker feed tube froze up and started leaking water out of the back of the freezer. It’s a slow leak and for the moment I’ve turned the water off because I don’t have the time to unthaw it right now. How screwed am I? I’ve never had this happen before and I really don’t want to buy a new ice maker right now.
Depends on what's broke. I had the feed line split inside the freezer (a hose that went from the ice maker just to the outside back of the fridge where the external water line connects) and leak water down inside the fridge. But it only took $1 worth of vinyl hose from the hardware store to fix it. Nothing wrong with the ice maker itself.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
The only way to truly get rid of dandelions is to poison the heck out of your lawn. The closest you'll get otherwise is to hand-dig them out every year, which will slowly reduce their numbers.
Assuming the yard isn't really infested with them, a stand up weed puller is quick and easy. Something like https://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-Deluxe-Stand-up-Weeder-4-claw/dp/B0030MIHAU You just step on it to push the teeth into the ground and then lever it out. Easier than a hand tool, or worse pulling by hand.
I mostly eliminated my lawn's dandelion infestation with one of those. Couple of hours wandering the yard and I had a big ass pile of weeds. Almost none have grown back so far this year. Way more effective than when I tried to Roundup them away.
I just got one of these and the work to reward ratio is off the chart.
See a weed? Pull a weed. I'm a convert.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
So, my ice maker feed tube froze up and started leaking water out of the back of the freezer. It’s a slow leak and for the moment I’ve turned the water off because I don’t have the time to unthaw it right now. How screwed am I? I’ve never had this happen before and I really don’t want to buy a new ice maker right now.
I feel like it’s actually a super lucky exception for this NOT to happen and yeah a cheap line in the back is the fix, the ice maker itself is usually always fine
I honestly expect my line to freeze up and deprive me of on-demand ice 2 or 3 times per year, that’s just the cost of doing business having an ice maker in the fridge
Thanks for the advice on the ice maker, I’ll thaw it tomorrow and see the damage.
As an FYI, what an old riding mower saves in money it will cost you blood. Drive pulley fell off the engine and shredded the lower drive belt. Multiple fingers were stubbed and an appropriate amount of blood was drawn as sacrifice. Replaced the upper drive belt for good measure as well. But it works again for about $60 in belts, so no complaints from me.
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Thanks for the advice on the ice maker, I’ll thaw it tomorrow and see the damage.
As an FYI, what an old riding mower saves in money it will cost you blood. Drive pulley fell off the engine and shredded the lower drive belt. Multiple fingers were stubbed and an appropriate amount of blood was drawn as sacrifice. Replaced the upper drive belt for good measure as well. But it works again for about $60 in belts, so no complaints from me.
Ego sent me an advert for their zero turn, and while it looks nice and reminds me that pushing a mower around sucks, it made me think of Syndalis mentioning the price being more reasonable on robot mowers lately.., looking into it, I think when I get tired of my push mower I'm going to have to convince the wife to get a robot... probably I'll be pushing the mower for another year until I'm done with the basement and we figure out if/what we'll do outside before putting in guide wires and so on.
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Or you can learn to love your dandelions, and fry them up like the Italians do (they're delicious.)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.almanac.com/recipe/fried-dandelion-blossoms?amp
also make dandelion mead like somebody i know does.
plus, you feed the bees.
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Boiling water also works great on grass/weeds growing through cracks in sidewalks and driveways.
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They are especially good when done in a wilted salad with blue cheese and bacon.
They also grow like crazy when grown with hydroponics. I got like 3lbs of greens from 4 plants.
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Is that just to keep things pretty during summer or is it necessary to keep things from dying?
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Also my yard has gotten really uneven with lots of bumps and divots. Any way to fix that?
Aerating and rolling
Not necessary. Grass (in western WA at least) isn't dead when it is brown, it's going dormant. It is 100% normal and it will come back just fine when it rains again. Watering it is just a struggle because you're preventing it from going dormant and pouring heaps of water on it in the time of year when it doesn't rain for months and we should be conserving.
Mix of what looks like a few different grasses, clover, various weeds, moss in the shady spots
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I am the only thing standing between my nice older neighbor with a nice lawn and my largely absent neighbor with a lawn that is, no kidding, 100% various weeds.
I honestly like the way the weed lawn looks and hate the mono-cropping that is lawn maintenance, but somebody has to protect the city on the hill.
This has been our struggle with thistle.
I'm nearing the point where I want to politely ask my neighbors if I can get rid of the thistle in their yard for them.
I hand attack them with blood streaming from my eyes
i hand poison them
that way they know it’s personal
Oh, shit, is that what aerating does?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I do not understand the objections
And it's fun to blow their seeds off.
Well I think you often aerate without rolling, to help fertilizer or water get further down to the roots. I suppose it makes sense that aerating with let the soil give way more for the roller. I have a super bumpy yard from a big (non grass)landscaping redo and I tried to use a tamper but it was slow going and then it broke.
Trying to maintain curb appeal because I’ve been at the precipice of listing this house for 2 years now and one of these days it’ll happen.....
Aerating (especially plug aeration) let’s oxygen get into the ground and ultimately makes for a healthier lawn. It also helps to decompress the soil, and let’s water penetrate better (especially for lawns with a lot of thatch). It’s a great thing to do.
Depends on what's broke. I had the feed line split inside the freezer (a hose that went from the ice maker just to the outside back of the fridge where the external water line connects) and leak water down inside the fridge. But it only took $1 worth of vinyl hose from the hardware store to fix it. Nothing wrong with the ice maker itself.
So, do you want to eat 200 of them? A week? Because that's roughly what I pull out of my yard in dandelion war season.
So we promptly bought $400 worth of new light fixtures.
Help.
I just got one of these and the work to reward ratio is off the chart.
See a weed? Pull a weed. I'm a convert.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I feel like it’s actually a super lucky exception for this NOT to happen and yeah a cheap line in the back is the fix, the ice maker itself is usually always fine
I honestly expect my line to freeze up and deprive me of on-demand ice 2 or 3 times per year, that’s just the cost of doing business having an ice maker in the fridge
As an FYI, what an old riding mower saves in money it will cost you blood. Drive pulley fell off the engine and shredded the lower drive belt. Multiple fingers were stubbed and an appropriate amount of blood was drawn as sacrifice. Replaced the upper drive belt for good measure as well. But it works again for about $60 in belts, so no complaints from me.
Ego sent me an advert for their zero turn, and while it looks nice and reminds me that pushing a mower around sucks, it made me think of Syndalis mentioning the price being more reasonable on robot mowers lately.., looking into it, I think when I get tired of my push mower I'm going to have to convince the wife to get a robot... probably I'll be pushing the mower for another year until I'm done with the basement and we figure out if/what we'll do outside before putting in guide wires and so on.