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We have had some unusually warm weather the past couple weeks and all of the snow melted. Bad for skiing, but good for doing some very early “spring” lawn work. I worked for a total of about seven hours yesterday and today raking and also trimming some shrubs. Nice and cold now, though. Makes it easier to rake because the turf is frozen.
Usually don’t get to start yard work until April in this neck of the woods. Lawnmowers and rakes go in the shed Thanksgiving weekend; snowblower and shovels come out. Happy to get a big jump on it. As a side note, yard was clean like a whistle in November. Surprising how much clean up is needed after a couple of months.
Me, I'm subscribing to the "benign neglect" program.
Once a year in the early spring I get a garbage bag and a hoe (you millennials will want to look that up) and go round and pick the weeds visible at the time. Once my turf grass starts growing it pretty much chokes out all the weeds, and I'm mowing regularly so I'm cutting them off before they flower and seed.
In the hottest part of the summer I water quite a bit.
I haven't fertilized in 10 years. I mulch all clippings. Have not bagged mower trimmings in 30 years.
My yard looks way better than many of my neighbors' that are still on the chemical-addiction program. Birds and animals frequent my yard; they stay away from the zero-organic-material yards of my neighbors. I have butterflies, hummers, little lizards everywhere, bunnies, etc., etc., etc. They got bupkis.
Anazingly enough if you'll just leave things the heck alone, the natural processes of turf grass will largely take care of themselves.
Of course if you insist on doing stupid stuff like trying to have a golf green under a 100 foot tall oak tree, well, that's not going to come out well. So, don't do that!
I find that a mulching mower spreads all the fertilizer I need, so "which spreader's best" is irrelevant. But that's because I don't poison my soil, so the grass clippings do what they're supposed to do.
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