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DogMan

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Is that edible stuff?

And isn't July about mid winter for you?
Yep, and yep.

This is more useful than northern hemisphere seasons.

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We officially say Autumn, winter, spring, summer. But the aboriginal seasons work better. Then every 7 years, add "everything on fire" season
 

The Cromwell

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Well off to a long day of mowing.
No rain for today and the Barry Obama storm will hit here in a couple of days.
 

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I just got led here by tapatalk. Sorry, I didn’t mean to burst into this group.

It’s interesting about the differences in the Wheel of the Year in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. I’m glad I saw that.

Cromwell, I hope you don’t mind my interruption. Can I come back sometimes?

Have a good night and day, you two.
 

The Cromwell

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I just got led here by tapatalk. Sorry, I didn’t mean to burst into this group.

It’s interesting about the differences in the Wheel of the Year in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. I’m glad I saw that.

Cromwell, I hope you don’t mind my interruption. Can I come back sometimes?

Have a good night and day, you two.
Come back anytime.
 

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Well not such a long day of mowing after all.
I am heat whipped.
Will hit it again tomorrow.

Is it really hot where you are? The weather broke here for a few, but now it got hot and humid again.
Take care.
 

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Weed killer

Just vinegar with a dash of dishwashing liquid
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Yep works well just does not last as long as other chemical ones.
But does not cause cancer, etc or kill trees that have roots in the application zone.
 

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Weed killer
Just vinegar with a dash of dishwashing liquid

I have tried many of the home remedies for killing crabgrass but nothing works better than treating it in the fall and early spring with Scotts Crabgrass Preventer. Baking soda kills it but also kills the grass.
 

susieqz

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all my plants are adapted to semi arid areas.
bushes, ground covers, trees, weeds.
grass died durring the 7 year drought.
picked grapes today.
i have a vine providing shade under my arbor.
the fruit is a bonus.
 

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I have a rental inspection on Thursday. Would you pass this yard, if you were a property manager? I'll probably hose down the chairs and concrete.

 

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Still storming and raining so I spent some time in my mad scientist lab and made up a rechargeable headphone amplifier that runs off of a couple of my old HG2 batteries. Balanced charges with Micro USB. Wife is getting harder of hearing...
Need to order some little magnets to hold the battery door on. will put in my Aliexpress cart.
And made up another batch of Banana nut bread.
Cleaned some house too.
 

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Nice day, got my trailer all loaded up with riding mower, push mower, trimmer, etc to go mow at the farm. Went back in ate a sandwitch and got my cooler then the sky opened up... drat
Well we did have about a 7 day drought... Longest period of no rain so far this year.
 

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Rain in the Forecast for tomorrow so cutting the lawns today here. Supposedly only in the 80's so hopefully won't be too brutal out.
 

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It may have only been in the 80's but the humidity was 60% so many was it sticky~!
 

Mykreign

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My first time building forms and pouring concrete (tomorrow)

Hope it turns out decent lol

Edit: tips are welcome

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Jinx'd

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i did concrete wwhen i was young, with my dad.

those 2x4's that are in the middle. get those out, unless you plan to pour in sections.

and yes, i would put in those expansion pieces. you may not need them, but you would not want to find out otherwise.
 

Mykreign

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i did concrete wwhen i was young, with my dad.

those 2x4's that are in the middle. get those out, unless you plan to pour in sections.

and yes, i would put in those expansion pieces. you may not need them, but you would not want to find out otherwise.
All done now.

Yes I poured the outer two sections first, let them dry, took out the middle 2x4s and poured the last one.


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Mykreign

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no, your not done yet. not until i get to inspect it !

bag or truck ?
30 bags. About 1800 pounds. I have some plastic covering it now. I'll get a picture eventually.

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yeah keeping a hedge trimmed properly is a PITA.
Use better tools :)

Last year I upgraded the hedge trimming gear to a Red Max hedge trimmer and a Shindaiwa pole hedge trimmer. They get the job done much more nicely than consumer-grade electric or battery-powered trimmers and in a fraction of the time.

My yard tools, except for mowers and chain saws:

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Yep works well just does not last as long as other chemical ones.
But does not cause cancer, etc or kill trees that have roots in the application zone.
Neither do the proper herbicides, applied properly and with a bit of common sense.

We've had commercial weed control before. They killed or maimed at least a couple trees. Now I do my own. My work is much more effective than theirs, and I haven't killed anything I didn't wish to kill.
 

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I just got rid of hedges. Problem solved.

Did buy a little $99 Kobalt cordless leaf blower the other day.
It really surprised me. I like it. I like the variable speed trigger too.
Performs better than the couple of corded ones I had in the past. Of course not as good as a $400-500 backpack blower but very light and does what I need since I have no big jobs for it. I use the rider to blow most of the leaves out of the yard over into the woods. And or use a rear mounted bagger on my rider.
 

susieqz

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only leaves to worry about.
life is easy.
me, i gotta get my fig trees wrapped for winter .
wrapping is easy but they gotta be shaped into columns.
they are big bushy tree shaped trees.
i use truck ratchet tie downs to force them into shape.
lotsa sweat involved in this.

gotta do it tho.
it's too cold here for figs.
they would die to the ground with out wrapping.
 

vuJim

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We just mulch. I used to rake em all up, but MAN what a job that was.
Yup. Well, didn't rake 'em all up, but, still: Blowing leaves for 20-25,000 sqft of lawn into the woods, even with a powerful backpack leaf blower, was a job. About twenty years ago bought a commercial grade mower commonly used by lawn crews as a clean-up mower. Now just blow/rake them out of corners and sides, pick 'em up in the mower and dump it all into the gardens--where it composts through the rest of autumn, over winter and the next spring. Often do two passes: First just shreds 'em and puts 'em back down on the lawn. Then a second pass where they get shredded even more finely and picked up.
 

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