Landscaping

[cany]

$22.95 ?

Close $24 way cheaper at the Big stores

 

[Chevy1]

Close $24 way cheaper at the Big stores

I saw it at the Nursery by you at that price I figured that’s where you went

 

[cany]

I saw it at the Nursery by you at that price I figured that’s where you went

Thats where I bought it and why didnt you stop by if you was out here??

 

[Chevy1]

Thats where I bought it and why didnt you stop by if you was out here??

You where at work on Friday and I was in my pickup doing estimates not spraying.

 

[cany]

You where at work on Friday and I was in my pickup doing estimates not spraying.

Oh didnt know you did estimates out here

 

[Chevy1]

last night it took me 2 hours to dig out one shrub to replant in the front yard..
I will attempt to remove the second one after work today.
They are growing in a 18” space between the foundation and the blacktop and removal without damaging the roots makes it take so long?

 

[wader]

I usually get frustrated in situations like that & once it goes beyond 1/2 hour at most I start thinking - "How much to just buy one of these suckers?" & then the hacking starts & I destroy it.

 

[cany]

I usually get frustrated in situations like that & once it goes beyond 1/2 hour at most I start thinking - "How much to just buy one of these suckers?" & then the hacking starts & I destroy it.

If he had your money he might do the same

 

[Chevy1]

shrubs are transplanted and bed is ready for new size appropriate planting’s ??

 

[Avenger]

In the interest of not jumping in inappropriately like I usually do I read all 4 pages of this. Naturally if it was 50 pages I would still probably only read four. But now I know how much I really suck at this landscraping stuff. Thanks for the tip about killing moss. I've got a brick patio that doesn't need anywhere near that much character.

So, my lame contribution to this is to show off the results my war on dandelions. As we all know, pulling a dandelion without pulling the taproot just means it's coming back. I had noticed that it was easier to get the tap roots out after it had rained, so I invented a thing I could hook to a hose nozzle to inject water down the length of the Taproot. Basically it liquifies the soil so the root can't hang on to it. The result was 45 taproots pulled in under an hour. It wasn't perfect, I still broke some, but it's tons easier than digging them out. So maybe I'm heading to Shark Tank soon.

 

[wader]

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hard to tell from the photos - what kind of shrubs were they that you spent all that time moving?

 

[wader]

In the interest of not jumping in inappropriately like I usually do I read all 4 pages of this. Naturally if it was 50 pages I would still probably only read four. But now I know how much I really suck at this landscraping stuff. Thanks for the tip about killing moss. I've got a brick patio that doesn't need anywhere near that much character.

So, my lame contribution to this is to show off the results my war on dandelions. As we all know, pulling a dandelion without pulling the taproot just means it's coming back. I had noticed that it was easier to get the tap roots out after it had rained, so I invented a thing I could hook to a hose nozzle to inject water down the length of the Taproot. Basically it liquifies the soil so the root can't hang on to it. The result was 45 taproots pulled in under an hour. It wasn't perfect, I still broke some, but it's tons easier than digging them out. So maybe I'm heading to Shark Tank soon.

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I never had much of a thing for removing dandelions. Just kept running them over with the lawnmower. If you cut your grass regularly (at least once a week) you generally keep cutting off the dandelion flower before it can seed. Eventually - BINGO!! - no more dandelions.


But I do admire your little invention there.......................

 

[Chevy1]

Wader, I’m having a brain fart and can’t remember the name of the shrub ???.

But I just picked up a Weeping Redbud tree and a Weeping Copper Beach Tree.??

 

[wader]

Wader, I’m having a brain fart and can’t remember the name of the shrub ???.

But I just picked up a Weeping Redbud tree and a Weeping Copper Beach Tree.??

never heard of a weeping redbud - be interesting to see it when it flowers - I've got your everyday run of the mill redbud & it's gorgeous when blooming.......

just googled one up - fabulous

 

[Avenger]

I never had much of a thing for removing dandelions. Just kept running them over with the lawnmower. If you cut your grass regularly (at least once a week) you generally keep cutting off the dandelion flower before it can seed. Eventually - BINGO!! - no more dandelions.


But I do admire your little invention there.......................

Last season I got out there with the grass whip almost every day and did my Bill Murray impersonation lopping off the heads of them little buggers routinely. "Cinderella story, groundskeeper come from nowhere, playing at Augusta.... It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" ?️‍ My neighbors probably thought they'd be reading about me in the papers soon. Trust me, I showed the SOBs the knife daily on the same theory.

And because if the precipitation pattern last season I had to mow it almost every week without fail. But they're still back with a vengeance this year. Not saying you're wrong, but it wasn't working for me here.

I just need a name for this thing. The Dandy Lion Rooter, or The Tap Extractor. Maybe The Root-O-Rooter?... I'm open to ideas.

 

[Chevy1]

Well I went to Home Depot to buy screens for my windows then I realized I wanted to Kwanzan cherry tree I did not like the ones they had but once I saw the Redbud and the beach I had to have them not knowing where I was going to plant them I found spots for them but now I have to extend my beds it never ends.
My wife just went back to a different Depot for more screens hopefully they have the tree at this store.

 

[MOJOE]

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3s up chevy ,, great job there,,,,,looking good,,,,,, ><))))):>
><))):>

 

[JoeBfishing]

You got deer in yard too! Nice

 

[Chevy1]

Got the Flowering Cherry and it’s planted ?

Too dark for a picture

 

[Roccus7]

Today was white birch day. I would appreciate Mike's comment here, but a local arborist claims I have an uncanny ability to successfully transplant wild white birches dug out of the woods onto my property. Right now my success rate is 90% and he said, "You have no right to be that successful." I think the secret to my success is to find isolated trees. Birches grow in "bunches" like poplars and Aspens, so most trees in a grove are interconnected through root networks. I call them the "Borg" of the tree world. Regardless I've reasoned that if you try to dig one out in the middle of bunch of birches, you'll be trying to move something that has way too many connections, but finding an isolated one means you're getting a tree with no co-dependents.

Yeah, that's probably a load of BS, but I still have a good transplant record so let's leave it at that. Have shovel, will transplant...