So, Brad and I had this theory a while back. First, a little history.
When we lived in Abilene, we spent the summer "landscaping". We layed sod in our backyard, put up a new fence (not by ourselves), dug flowerbeds in the front yard, planted shrubs and the unfortunate hydro-mulching of our front yard. If any of you are ever considering hydro-mulching, don't do it. And if you have to do it, make sure you have a sprinkler system. We had a horrible experience with it. It cost a pretty penny and we ended up with a yard full of weeds!! Okay, now on with the theory.
When we moved into our current house, the yard was really pretty. We have thick bermuda grass that was green and looked like it had been well maintained. Brad enjoys taking care of the lawn, so he was pretty meticulous about mowing. About 2 months ago, we started noticing some weeds coming up. Then, it seemed like all of a sudden, our yard was consumed with them (front and back). Our theory was that we brought all of the weeds (in our lawn mower) from Abilene! It made sense. Everywhere Brad had mowed, there were the weeds. Apparently our theory failed. Part of our fence blew down a week ago and we saw the "yard of weeds" next door. So, that brings me to today.
My finger nails hurt. I spent approximately 1 1/2 hours pulling up weeds in our front yard this afternoon. Brad fertilized the yard last week, so I thought I would be sweet and help pull the weeds. Secretly, I wanted an excuse to be outside and possibly get some sun on these white arms of mine! It seems like forever ago that I was even remotely tan (pre-Mallory days). Anyway. Back to the weeds. It started out good. They were easy to pull up for the most part. Then, I got a bunch of ants mad at me, found several spiders (seriously, what good are they?), 4-5 inch long worms, crickets and lots of rollie pollies. I haven't wanted to touch a rollie pollie since I was little...not that I wanted to today...that is what gardening gloves are for! I found some very tough and annoying weeds. I'm not sure what they are called, but they seriously looked like heads of lettuce! And the roots were forever long. We don't have a hand held shovel thingy, so I scoured the kitchen for some kind of tool to use. A cake server did the trick!
Our front yard now looks like the tee box on a golf course. Tons of divots...but, there isn't any more lettuce, so that makes up for it! I didn't even finish half of it, but it already looks better. I made Brad come out and "admire" my hard work. He probably couldn't even tell that I had filled 3 HEB bags, but was nice anyway, and said it looked good. I think I'll work on it some more tomorrow. It's kind of rewarding. And, if you ever have cake at my house, it won't be served with my "gardening tool", don't worry.
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If I Fedex you a cake for Mallory's birthday...you'd definitely have to use a different cake server. :-)
What I want to know is who decides what is a weed and what's not? I'm convinced that anything that grows quickly without any hassle is a weed, no matter how green or pretty it is. Why isn't grass, which is harder to grow, considered a weed? That would make our lives so much easier.
Hey Shannon,
I definitely feel your pain!
I started a new fertilizer treatment from Home Depot last week - it won't do anything for my current weeds but supposedly it'll take out the weeds in April and May . . . we'll see!
I have to say though, my neighbors use TruGreen/ChemLawn and they don't have near as many weeds as I do!
Thanks for the support guys.
Brad is thinking about calling a lawn service if it doesn't get any better. Mama might have to get a part time job if that happens. It can be expensive to maintain!! :)
Yes, Tru Green Chem Lawn is the only way to go to fight the Weed War!! And by the way, did you have someone tell you that or did you really know about a Tee Box and Divots???
rpe
Dad,
Give me some credit! I've seen plenty of PGA golf (BOR-ING!) to know where the divots are. Thank you very much!
So what are "divots" and where is the "tee box"?
rpe
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