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Originally Posted by phenomshel
And that's when you hire a lawn service.
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$3,000 a year to have a bunch of nimwits destroy your yard?? No thanks.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Fire ants must be quite a threat to work around... and rattlers too. We have nothing to fear here than the occasional skunk... and squirrel. 100 degrees? afaik it's never happened here.
I bought a corded electric mower this spring. It's a little on the cheap side but it has multiple functions, there's a helicoidal mower, an aerator, a thatch remover an a brush head to collect debris, leaves, sand or pebbles in the driveway. If the motor dies, it goes.
Summer being so short, I mow the lawn from 8 to 12 times a year. That's why it's possible to like the activity and I do it evenings so the grass can recuperate during the night.
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Rattlers aren't really a problem on the lawn so much as they are in the high brush. The fire ants, on the other hand, are beyond hellish. So, each Spring you put down poison anywhere you see their mounds, and just pray like all get out that nothing but fire ants eat the stuff.
The lawn here grows about four or five inches every 10 days. So, the least you can generally get away with is three mows a month from June through October. That's only about 15 mowing sessions, but when the coolest it gets is 90 degrees (and that's around 4 in the morning), you really come to dread those sessions. Most of us break it down into 3-4 sessions of 15 minutes at a go ... rather than to lie there dying in front of the house.
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I used a corded electric mower, before I switched to buying townhouses instead of houses. The electric mower really seems the way to go. It either works or it doesn't. And your only real effort is in NOT mowing over the cord. Ya keep moving it around, like the cord on your vacuum cleaner!
Ricky -- at least you finally got to the part of the day the rest of us put first: "have a little lie down".  |
Unfortunately, here you would need a 200 foot electrical cord ... or longer. Good luck not mowing over that at some point.
My little lie down ended up being rather stressful. I watched "Dog Soldiers." Damned movie scared the living crap out of me!!
