Mowing the lawn

[crazydrummerdude]

I own a lawncare business. I cut everyones lawn. (That's how I got my BMW.) What about you?

[FredRydr]

Crazy,

Oh, I'll have fun with this one!

I think the whole lawn thing has been foisted upon us. I used to mow my parent's lawn as I grew up, but when I built my own house, I had the smallest lawn I could get away with. The rest is garden and ground cover, and the dairy farmer next door gets free hay a couple times a year.

A neighbor has a small lawn biz that his high-school student son works for.

Fred

[Mika]

My father who I loved dearly thought his yard should look like a putting green. I HATE YARD WORK. I love my condo and the yard service that comes with it. God bless you and everyone else who does your work...you and plumbers :wave

[userw5]

Aside from the bike, it's one of the other things I do that involves a motorized vehicle, I ride while doing it, and I wear ear plugs. :)

[Belquar]

Mow my own. 100% crabgrass. My neighbor has really nice grass. He has it done. A lot of folks around here have rock yards. My back yard is rock. This year I dug up half of the back and turned it into a vegetable garden.

I killed the front yard completely with the good intentions of power raking and re-seeding to try and get some decent grass. Never got around to the rake and seed. It came back as crab grass. Looks ok as long as I keep it mowed otherwise it gets those little tassle seed things.

My neighbor across the street power raked and seeded and his yard looks like crap. He has a sprinkler system and everything. I don't have sprinklers and never water the lawn and it looks fine. Just crabgrass....seeds the crap out of everything else though so I have to pull weeds elsewhere. I HATE WEEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian

[petepeterson]

We don't cut all the trees and shrubs down in our yards,, why cut all the grass down?????? VIVA LA GRASS..............Pete

[Burnszilla]

I don't have a lawn. :nyah

[FredRydr]

Try as I might, I was unable to successfully google an image of the 2-page Harley-Davidson magazine ad, depicting a guy pushing his mower alongside the road, and of course, the shiny H-D cruising by.

I should have bought a Fat Boy based on that ad alone. I think I'll ask H-D for a print and have it framed and hung near my garden equipment. (I sold my lawn mower five years ago.)

Fred

[Stuff2C]

The easiest check I write every month is the MOW, BLOW and GO guy. :D
Love that guy! :clap

[Hotspice]

I mow, and this year I seem to be mowing, mowing and mowing more. With all the rain we've gotten I've mowed twice a week more times than I ever remember.

It's almost like a well choreographed performance. I break out the mower, fire it up and push it to the front yard to start. About that time my neighbor comes out of his house with paper bag and shovel in hand.

By the time I'm done with the front he's cleaned up all the landmines his puppy has left and he's back in his house watching TV.

:buds

[kbasa]

I don't have a lawn. :nyah

We're in the process of redoing our yard and we'll have no lawn! :clap

[Hodag]

I enjoy that 45 minutes mowing my yard

all noise drowned out
just me and my thoughts

[jdiaz]

I don't have a lawn. :nyah
Considering all the fluids leaking out of your bikes, the grass would have died anyway. :laugh

[Burnszilla]

Considering all the fluids leaking out of your bikes, the grass would have died anyway. :laugh
Ouch.
I forgot.. I blow all the needles off of the driveway. I guess thats like mowing. More in the fall and winter than in the spring and summer.

[bluehole]

I mow with a push mower and enjoy it. My lawn is not too big. Mowing, trimming and blowing (love that backpack blower) usually done in an hour or less.

[Bob_M]

I mow with a push mower and enjoy it. My lawn is not too big. Mowing, trimming and blowing (love that backpack blower) usually done in an hour or less.

I figure that I have to walk behind it weather it has a motor or not, so I just push the sucker. We like having some lawn to play with the dogs, and for badminton

Most of the yard is in beds. Ornamental plants, flowering plants (lilies, iris, daffodils), native plants (trillium, asarum, shooting stars, all kinds of native lilies), exotic specimen plants (several rare species of rhododendron) and granny plants that came with the property (forsythia, kalmia, camellia, wigelia, lilac etc.) and of course there are the foundation shrubs, yew, pieris, azalea etc.)

I have arraigned plants so that we have something blooming at all times (now we have cyclamen, aster, cimicefugia and stray ceanothus and dogwood in bloom)

I love this time of year, because there is not a lot to do before the leaf season.

[41077]

This is how it's done in Mulino.
Found a guy with horses that needed feed. He keeps what he cuts and I watch, cool huh?
I don't own the place I just live there (even cooler) untill it sells.

[rgvilla]

not only do I mow my own, (cub cadet riding lawn tractor) takes me about 2.5 hours, the farmer does the serious hay cutting, this is just around the house and barn, we have lawn tractor races here in western PA. People soup them up and some are known to go over 60 mph. The big thing is to take the govenor off the motor so you can get some horsepower going. What a blast!

[SheRidesABeemer]

I accidently (http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12846) forgot to mow my lawn, now I can't find my S bike. Do you think the dealer can find it for me? :nyah

[Crow18]

Trees, shrubs, native plants, raised beds, greenhouse.

No lawn. No mowing. No problem.

[Hodag]

I accidently (http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12846) forgot to mow my lawn, now I can't find my S bike. Do you think the dealer can find it for me? :nyah

you made me laugh out loud :thumb

[FredRydr]

Here is my lawn - being recycled into milk. I took it one misty morning when the dairy farmer came to collect the bales after mowing, raking and baling my front yard the day before. I don't even ask for money or hay.

Fred

[andy45320]

Mow the lawn? Ha...only when I am obligated by my properly owners association to do it, ONCE A MONTH. Usually gets to be about 15" high or so, starts to seed real good. Then I hack it down to about 1" so it gets a nice brown color and allows for more hearty crabgrass to grow. Works best in mid-august sun. Yeah. I am that guy. The one down the street that never mows the lawn. I mainly don't do it to piss off the lawn nazi who lives next door. That is not entirely true...I just get no pride from mowing the lawn.

You think that is bad....I have some form of wild tree that is about 10' tall growing in my shrubs. Looks very tropical. Guess you could say I follow the minimalist approach to lawn care.

[Mika]

I accidently (http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12846) forgot to mow my lawn, now I can't find my S bike. Do you think the dealer can find it for me? :nyah
You are showing a feisty side of late Gail. :thumb

[2beers]

What has once was the standard of Rock,Paper,Scissors routine to see whose turn it is to cut our yard (with our girls), it now is the utlimate bribe to whoever makes the effort to cut the lawn Dad takes for a spin on the bike.

However either way Dad is (most gleefully) out of the lawn mowing job. :thumb

[manicmechanic]

DaWif usually does all the yardwork, although I think I've mowed twice this year. I may have it made, in that a few years ago she wanted a new mower for her birthday. Last year for our anniversary she wanted a mower with electric start. For her birthday I usually get her flowers - we go to the greenhouse and she gets to pick out the plants she wants to put in the flowerbeds.

[Xaque]

I'm none of the above... I rent and my landlord mows the lawn!

I've also seen people who replace their front yard with concrete and then paint it green...

...searched the interweb for a pic, but couldn't come up with anything.


-Xaque-

[jdmetzger]

Normally I mow it myself with my own mower. However, I had some bad luck this year, and my low-hours Craftsman mower (With the 7HP briggs and stratton) walk behind mower threw a valve. And after I was so GOOD to it. Ugh. I need a short block. Until then, I'm considering a permanent mowing with some RoundUp. :)

[Bob_M]

...I have some form of wild tree that is about 10' tall growing in my shrubs. Looks very tropical. .

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=7

I am not the lawn nazi either, but I know my gardening.

Tree of heaven is the plant from the story "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Very fast growing in adverse conditions and very agressive root growth.

If this plant is near pavement, or growing near your house foundation, or over water, storm or sanitary plumbing, you will save yourself a bunch of grief if you cut it and spray the stub with roundup and repeat until it is fully dead

Then go for a motor cycle ride.

[OUTBACKUFO]

You forgot about if you have the bio lawn mowwer...












a good old sheep..... :laugh

[soffiler]

Here in the fertile dairy farm land of southern New England, you gotta mow, or stuff GROWS whether you want it or not.

My wife is an avid gardener (URI Certified Master Gardener) and has her own ideas about what she'd like to see growing in our yard. I use the term "yard" loosely - we own six acres of old pastureland, woods, and swamp. However, before she can work her magic...

When we moved in three years ago, all of the old pastureland was completely covered (I mean completely) by large clumps of autumn olive and multiflora rose. Either of these might be compared with the notorious Kudzu for speed of growth and overall desirability. Throw in some wild grape and bittersweet just for good measure. Oh and poison ivy, how can I forget the poison ivy. All of this developed over the previous ten years BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS OWNER DID NOT MOW.

Over the three years we've reclaimed most of the old pasture, ballpark about an acre, and I've got a brushpile about 40' diameter and 15' high plus a stump pile with roughly 200 stumps to show for it. You see, I've got a lot of toys with motors, not just the motorcycle. My '91 Ford 1520 diesel 4x4 utility tractor tears those moderately small stumps out of the ground with a vengeance. Big fun in its own way.

[Braddog]

It's Minnesota, for crying out loud, you only have to mow it for like 4-5 months, tops, out of the year. The motorcycle riding season is longer in Minnesota than the mowing season (I'm not a 12 month Rounder).

Mowing my own lawn is one of those instant gratification things. Kind of like painting. Or changing your own oil. Or adjusting your own valves.

Oh, by the way...great post, Gail. :laugh

[jwhite518]

We're in the process of redoing our yard and we'll have no lawn! :clap

It's the blue-state "native plant" thing! Lawns are for materialistic infidels. (sorry, wrong thread.) ;)

[BradfordBenn]

My wife mows so I can have more time to ride :dance