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Have you ever wanted to reseed your lawn? Dethatch or aerate your yard? Perhaps you've wanted to mow the fall leaves into your grass, just to see what happens. Or maybe you've even wanted to convert those leaves into compost to spread back into that grass to use as fertilizer. In the lawn care and landscaping category, you'll find posts that discuss all of the above, plus a heck of a lot more. I write about using many different types of lawnmowers, which types of grass seed is best for overseeding, in which season is best to plant, how to protect shrubs from moles and voles, and oh so much more. C'mon in and check 'em out.

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Yard Work in Autumn

I really let this place go for the past few years. I’ll be honest – I was on strike. After living in Connecticut and Florida, where competition among neighbors for the greener lawn is a bit higher than it is here, I had enough. I really didn’t even want to look at a lawn. And […]

Mowing Down the High Grass with the Cub Cadet

I know, I know, I have railed against mowing the lawn for years now. It’s just that now I have a new lawnmower. One that I can sit on and not cause my back to absolutely kill me after a few minutes of walking. Over the past three years, I’ve gone from not mowing much […]

Why Would I Ever Mow the Lawn?

When we lived in Connecticut and then Florida, there were these rules – some unwritten and some written. Rules that said each and every property needed to have its lawn mowed and that it needed to look “tidy.” I sort of agreed with the rules, as they were most likely aimed at forcing the not […]

Trimming Shrubs and Weeding

I did a lot of work outside yesterday. Honestly, my goal was only to trim a few shrubs out front and call it a day. I didn’t want to go overboard. But what I ended up doing was trimming three shrubs out front, hack down a big tree-like bush on the side along with some […]

Cleaning Up the Front Yard

Alright everyone, I’ve decided to get off my duff and start cleaning things up around here. I thought I could just sit back and fall into oblivion for the rest of my life, but unfortunately I’ve been raised to pick up after myself. I just can’t sit here any longer watching the grass grow. It’s […]

Removing Cement Landscape Edging

If there’s one thing I really didn’t want to get into down here, it’s “fixing up the house.” I’m so over that. Ever since we purchased our first house back in New York, I’ve been dumping loads of time and money into making things look and feel nicer. Well, one can only be duped so […]

When To Plant Grass Seed In The Fall

I wrote a post a while back talking about the best cool season grass seed for heat and drought. At the end of the post, I gave a few recommendations on when to plant grass in the fall. Basically, I said to start planting on October 1, instead of the September 1 that many people […]

Screening Compost and Spreading On Lawn

Earlier this year, I put together a few quick compost piles. I made the containers out of simple rabbit fencing (or whatever it’s called). You can see them in the photos below. Ever since I put these things up, we have been collecting anything that will break down. Basically, that was just our food scraps. […]

How To Stop Moles and Voles From Eating Your Holly Bushes

This is a real problem. Moles and Voles eating the roots of Holly bushes, that is. It’s infuriatingly maddening. It’s time, labor and money down the drain. I have read articles on the internet about people having big beautiful Holly bushes suddenly get brown and crispy. They wondered what in the heck was causing the […]