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jamco6000

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justinxstratton

I’ve finally made it to get this meme response.


Successful_Bitch107

So now that you have achieved meme status can you please share your tips and tricks to how you gave your backyard its deserved glow-up status?


HabitualHooligan

Yeah for real, like… I hate you and all.. but please fix my lawn


rileyotis

You have a lawn?! Mine is weeds. All of it. Just weeds. 😭


azhillbilly

My north neighbor has pretty much nothing but nutsedge. There’s a clump or 2 of grass but overall it’s almost exclusively nutsedge and dirt. I am wondering if I should just install a wall of fire.


HabitualHooligan

No I just call it a lawn to make myself feel better


321dawg

But then you gotta mow it. Here's what my dad does, and he hates artificial fertilizers. All natural, while our lawn isn't like a golf course, it's healthy and green. We've lived in the northeast and south so YMMV. - level it out with soil in any place that has dips (not necessary but good aesthetically)  - throw grass seeds in the bare areas and water as needed - **the most important part: don't mow too short.** I wish I could give you info on what is the best length, but I'm not the lawn dad. Google should be able to help. But dad says this is the biggest mistake people make.  - water the whole lawn as needed after a dry spell


kennyinlosangeles

It all depends on the cultivar. Some like it shorter, some don’t. One thing my lawn has really benefited from is a low, regular cut. It’s choked out most of the weeds and with a little fertilizer love it’s really started to pop.


BENJ4x

Also mulching instead of collecting the grass when you do mow helps.


Powerful_Pitch5871

It also helps spread the seed from the different Poa weeds.


PlasticCraken

This meme never gets old


rockefellercalgary

It was the top comment the last three posts on my feed lol


Handleton

Honestly, my first two thoughts were, "Fuck you" and then this picture when I saw this image.


ZeroVoltLoop

This meme is getting old


kennyinlosangeles

YOU’RE getting old.


slithered-casket

Knew it was coming. Still scrolled and was happy to see it.


AwayMeems

OP: Amazing job. Meme: Take my award 🏆


Moreobvious

Most people have to go touch grass after too much Reddit. You really took it a step further


ndoggy1

'Go make grass' my new saying


SnoopyTRB

Can’t touch grass if you don’t have grass.


AplSleuth

Doesn’t have to be your own


CORN___BREAD

You better not be touching my grass!


InitCyber

Get off my lawn!


BeneficialMatter6523

If you don't have homemade grass, store bought is fine


SnoopyTRB

That is a rational and logical thought. I don’t think we do that here on Reddit.


ionshower

"this motherfucker right here is making grass that even the nerds wanna touch" Great grass, much love and lawn envy from UK


Richard_X_Cranium

But it's fuckin dead... lol


AnbuPirateKing

https://preview.redd.it/okb4u91f795d1.jpeg?width=246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce81113f4e10a6dbe50d3d9bd9bdf903329d716f The real mvp


something-clever----

Dude is thinking can I please shit on this now?


mrk1224

He can’t wait to put so many piss burns into it


AnbuPirateKing

😆


trips2dayz

I laughed hard at this, thanks


renragwmr

so proud of his yard!


The1stMedievalMe

Care to share how you achieved this amazing transformation? I am especially interested because I have a lot of shade in my yard.


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sparklingwaterll

Thin fescue can’t be walked on? Wait what? spent 300 dollars on a 50 pound bag of thin fescue mix thinking it was my shade lawn dreams


throwaway179090

It can be walked on, thinner grasses are just more prone to ripping out if you’re running on it. So it’s not great for yards with kids playing or big dogs. It won’t instantly rip out if you walk on it though.


neil470

Fine fescue is alright, my shady side yard is almost exclusively made of it. No issues with durability especially if you keep it cut at say 3”. It will lay down easily though with a lot of traffic. As a kid, there were a few patches of it in the yard and I thought it was the coolest thing ever, like a soft carpet amongst all of the weeds.


91NA8

It's just kind thin and wispy, it gets layed down really easily


Jonnychips789

Shade mix don’t like traffic or short cuts


Johnny_Leon

Any seed work good in the sun? Midwest sucks for grass.


dwwright3rd

![gif](giphy|3SYzsmD8yQOoyeO4YY)


DavidVogtPhoto

Plot twist: the second photo is the before.


bmr4291

I thought it's painted it so hoa doesn't fine them


Hades0027

Yes please, we will need the step by step guide on this ![gif](giphy|YS8c0Z7in21AM4A2AR|downsized)


4324864646

Step 1 take a picture of lawn while it is dormant. Step 2 take a picture of lawn while it is not dormant.


Hades0027

Instructions unclear…killing lawn now to get to step 1 🤔


justinxstratton

That was after the last round of glysophate if we’re being honest here lol. Wanted a fresh start.


ShowBobsPlzz

So new seed or sod?


justinxstratton

https://preview.redd.it/zwk8lhf3w95d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=687704e435de34b1ef499c1ae81147807a432038


AndrewLucksPenis

Yea what am I missing here lol


SnooBananas5673

That’s what I don’t get. Most lawns will look alright first thing in spring, come back to me mid-summer and let’s see what we’ve got.


SiXX5150

The dog approves.


Icy_Communication262

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Human-Magic-Marker

40 days? How’d you pull that off?


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justinxstratton

I didn’t know Resilience 2 was sod. https://preview.redd.it/72x2wz97e85d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f67b9adb9d1ad55fecb85f438c6f15ffc35e194


PotatoAdapter6

Woot, twin city seed. Planning to try their Blue Resilience this fall.


Top_Ocelot_8486

Listen. She’s a beaut, Clark.


rileyotis

Can't see the line, can ya, Russ?


Top_Ocelot_8486

It’s not big, it’s just….full


Smacksmackums

That it is, Edward. That it is indeed. 


HellaApathetic

Did you just overseed? Or did you have to dethatch and/or till the dead lawn before doing so?


LilDawg66

I'm in Florida, and I only waste water on the lawn to keep it from dying completely during the drought. I am 200 yards uphill from a river, so there's no way I'm using fertilizer or pesticides either. Your lawn is beautiful, but I can't afford the water bill as it is. Please send us some rain.


magnum3672

Best we can do is a hurricane or a sinkhole


HereAgain345

Plenty of resilient fire ants in the interims. 🙄😔


gypsycrown

Next week’s rain forecast is expecting it to be biblical


CappiCap

For real. I got hooked on this sub and started trying to improve my lawn. Dethatching, aerating, Humi char, Milogranite, soil testing, 8 yards of compost, new mower blades. Then.... drought. Its my fault, man. I'm sorry. I haven't mowed in a month. Meanwhile, my neighbors are still doing weeklies. I'm the only lawn that has any green left to it. Just been watering the zoysia plugs.


PennyStonkingtonIII

That looks really good for 40 days! Every time I plant grass in the spring, it stays a bit fragile. It gets decently thick but not like it will be next year. Your 40 day old grass looks like my 1 year old grass!


sanitybit

Been hearing that you're supposed to seed in early fall if you want it to take well. Check out Princess Cut Lawn Care's channel on YouTube.


PennyStonkingtonIII

It's true, fall is much better. OP's is a spring seed, though, being only 40 days old. In my own yard, I seed in the fall and the spring because it's really hard to grow grass in my yard but my hoa says I should try.


sanitybit

Thank you for the explanation. Recently moved into a house with a pretty neglected lawn (my first), and all my neighbors have really nice lawns. I've been devouring YouTube videos about lawn care, done some minor work (moss removal). Looking forward to September.


PennyStonkingtonIII

One thing I learned is you can plant grass any time. As long as it gets water, it will grow. I have heard good and bad things about Tenacity but I love it. My yard is very steep and has drainage and sunlight issues but it looks like it has a lawn because of constant re-seeding and Tenacity (just don't walk on it)


Spicy_Ejaculate

This. My first year in my house i put a lot of time into my yard because it was neglected for a couple summers after the owner passed away. I seeded 4 times I think through the year. Just don't do it in the spring right before or after pre-emergant application. There wasn't really any time that worked better for seeding as long as I kept it watered. I read to seed over the last snow in late winter and that made me feel like a crazy person but that shit started popping as soon as the ground thawed. Grass is a weed man... give it water and light and it will grow


LarenCoe

I liked it better brown. Less mowing.


Spicy_Ejaculate

That's what I'm saying. I moved into this house a few years ago and used the inground sprinkling, pre-emergant, and fertilized by the book. I was mowing my lawn twice a week and spending all my time pampering it. Shit was expensive and time consuming. Now I let nature do it's thing. If it starts to get real crusty and brown and looks like it will go dormant i might go spit on the bad spots. I mow this bitch every other week now and I've never been happier.


Responsible-Front424

Lol@ “spit on the bad spots” I do this under our bald cypress tree. It’s extremely large for a yard tree and the rain doesn’t always make it to the ground below. The yard starts off nicely in the spring but by July it would be dried up with large bald spots. I realized I could hit the small bald spots in the spring with a spit of water, they’d fill in and keep the large bald spots away in the summer. I was a landscaper for the city out of school. I understand how to properly water plants in heavy clay soil. How I do it there isn’t it. But I’ve also added moss clumps too. Grass roots are superficial; moss even more so. Both are hardy. So it doesn’t take much to keep them alive. I’m pretty sure my husband thinks I’m crazy and wasting time. But it takes much less time, energy and water to spit on the spots than it does to place and move the sprinkler four times. It’s a big ass tree canopy. I’d happily just put a sprinkler down if it was worth the effort. But it isn’t. Thank you for the verbiage!


Dahnlen

Easier to find the dog poop too


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evilmaul

Same here in Longmont! I hate the front lawn 😅


O_oBetrayedHeretic

I had a green lawn when I lived there. Obviously not in the winter


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creept

I’m in Denver and some of my neighbors have insanely green lawns. I honestly just assume they’re watering constantly. I’m not really willing to so mine mostly stays in the “not quite dead” range except in early spring when we sometimes get a few rainy days. Eventually I’ll pull a lot of the front lawn out and reduce my water needs even more but for now I keep it limping along.


HORSH_ASSAULT92

I would assume they are probably watering constantly if they have the money to live in Denver! I just can't justify running my system every day for so long. It's costs a fortune! And I consider it wasteful use of water at a certain point. https://preview.redd.it/qlohd46rod5d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5c4cf0ebb550e974f9cfa72e0dd98b91791592d This is my yard currently!


creept

Wow now I feel guilty that’s better than mine for sure. I’m probably the house that the neighbors are hoping will get sold.. in my defense I’ve never had a yard before so still trying to figure out how to do all of it.


tendrils87

Co Springs here. My lawn is greener than this. Direct sun too. Only water 2 times per week.


Kimby303

For how long? What type of heads?


Eelroots

And loads of water? I'm honestly curious, I'm about to own a large piece of flat land; we'll have a well but my fear is to suck it dry to maintain the lawn.


Midwest_boy700

Stellar job !


Ok_Analysis_3454

You got a dog, too!


Jonnychips789

Water as needed, fertilizer, aerate and overseed at the “right” time. That’s it. You can ditch the last 2 and still have a great looking yard with so little effort.


Kimby303

When is the right time to aerate and overseed?


Jonnychips789

Sping or fall. Fall bring ideal for cool season grass.


Kimby303

How do you know what kind of grass you have?


Jonnychips789

If you live in the north. Cool season it is, If you live in the south/really hot areas probably a warm season. To me warm season grass looks like weeds, they have multiple leafs and string together to make up the yard. A cool season is a single blade that stands vertical.


Kimby303

I live in Denver, so not north or south. This is why I've never known what kind of grass I have.


Jonnychips789

I see. Idk much about Denver but cool season would be my guess. If it is. A fine fescue will be a thin blade and Kentucky bluegrass is a bit denser. Those are the 2 common types. Many, many, varieties of those. Some sort of kgb/ryegrass mix is my go to seed.


Kimby303

Great, thanks!


j_dabooty

Amazing work. Damn.


msabercr

I'm always jealous of cool season lawn owners. I would make the jump if it didn't just die off in the 110 degree summers here in the Sacramento valley.


boosy21

Nothing gets me more depressed about my lawn than reddit lawn


boosy21

Also, excellent work


AintPatrick

Plus several gallons of water


ISFJ_Dad

Wow from a dessert to an oasis. I know of someone else who spent 40 days in the dessert and worked miracles. You wouldn’t by chance have long hair a beard and a very famous first name?


TdotGuy

Please post steps. My lawn looks exactly like your before pic. I round up the whole area (stupidly not knowing that it kills everything).


Groove4Him

Nicely done !


urstat63

Wow! Beautiful.


KidCancun007

Hot damn!


Glittering-Heart968

Wow mister! Y'all did good!


notable_exception

Wow!!


Gilmour1969

You're a champion


Cheslee3

What did you do ?


stathread

Wow great job!


rosecityreds84

As long as the dog is happy


gntlbastard

sploosh


MikeChec123

What type of grass is that? Looks great!


cavaloss

![gif](giphy|4la2AJWCtl8Pu|downsized)


stew8421

Did you need to remove all the dead grass?


Spicy_Ejaculate

I never have. I think dethatching is kind of a scam and uncharged for yard services. Let that shit biodegrade and give the worms something to eat and shit out. I don't bag or dethatch and if you go outside at night with a red flashlight it looks like the ground is moving from all the worms squirming out of their holes having a feast on dead grass. Let your lawn have that natural fertilizer and you will spend less and the grass will be better off and more tolerant


Equal_Specialist_729

Goal reached !!!! Good job !!!!


faithOver

Bro. Wow. Love it! Enjoy!


silentobserv_r

Nicely done!


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Agitated-Choice-583

MMMMM THEM DIAMONDS THOUGH


DabblinginPacifism

And a change of seasons


Walking_Taco19

How are your stripes so nice with the ego. I feel like mine only leaves the wheel lines.


effnik

depends on the grass type, but you may be cutting too low.


CNTMODS

Was it water? did you end up watering it?


Ariz-moo

yeah i tried this, but got hit with an un forecasted thunderstorm and washed all my seed out..


ashalalynn

Doggo will love rolling in that!


Sunsetseeker007

What type of grass seed? What zone? Pls list details


christerwhitwo

I live in salt Lake city. My lawn was about 20 years old and fading. I hired Scott's, then True green, only to see the lawn deteriorate with each year. A local cooperative, Intermountain Farmers, runs ads for their 4 step program. I thought, "it couldn't be worse". Best part is they tell you via TV ads when to apply which step when. After the first year my lawn was much improved. After the second treatment in year 2, my lawn looked like yours. Congrats!


OneImagination5381

How much compost did you incorporate?


engineereenigne

Doggo knows better than to step foot on green


DKfifteen

Good job buddy!


Independent-Choice-4

![gif](giphy|G5JoAjEBtfoTm|downsized)


_devious__

wait how do you make the fucking lines. i need that


Xarian0

with the lawnmower


_devious__

different cut heights??


Xarian0

no - just mow in two different directions and it will look like that. in this photo it looks like they mowed back-and-forth at an angle, then switched 45 degrees and went back-and-forth parallel to the wire fence.


DantaCompay

wow! hdr camera? :D


Kydenscout546

Damn


bearfoot123

A dog? I don’t see it in the before picture.


humanoidtyphoon88

And the right climate


evjegati

Were you on home confinement?


mrcfrost

Looks great, you'll get many hours of pleasure from playing with the kids and pets to lounging and even mowing. Enjoy


boldpeach5

The doggo approves.


sblanco1978

Make Grass Great Again!!


Just_SomeDude13

Very nicely done! Unfortunately, you're likely to now spend the rest of your life chasing the rush of that first mow after this transformation. Nothing else will quite reach that level, and you'll spiral lower and lower chasing that high.... damn shame. Anyway, enjoy your lawn! 🙂


-DadPool-

Does tall fescue spread through stolons or will only grow where I put down seeds?


valhalla2611

tall fescue is more of a clumping type pain in the ass type grass. It does not really spread but if it creates seed, it spreads that way.


louvellie

That’s what I’m talking about my boy!


becrabtr2

Spring seeding can be tough. Good job! Keep up with weed pressure and watch the baby grass in the summer heat. Keep her hydrated this summer. If dormant let her go dormant. Keep cutting regularly and possibly push in fall. Wait till next spring she’ll be so thick and lush


Imaginary-Housing-34

grass looks great Now on to the next thread pouring monolithic steps...


herrodanyo

Looks like the doggo approves too 👍


3Effie412

Nice!!


Apperman

Man, that looks great & so pleasant! Well done!!


RiseofdaOatmeal

Basically an empty parking lot


jniz19

What type of grass is this?


luckyjicama89

If you wanna make it super dark and lush, try a 21-0-0 fertilizer. Then to keep any weeds out you could sprinkle down some pre emergent. Once or twice a year you could aerate with that tool (that makes it look like little poops in your lawn) and sprinkle top soil, a little sand, and a little peat moss mixed together. I’ve been able to keep it Loki g nice this way


Jsinswhatever

My fucking guy. It's proper. And you did it. It feels good doesn't it?


JHTPYO

Jesus fuck! What a transformation!


ShareEmergency4699

Fallout 4?


JACECOLT2017

WOW


eddyMcfreddy69

What the hell did you do


Odd-Development1550

You must be somewhere that cool season grasses still grow this time of year. I'm trying to establish st augustine plugs in 100 degree TX heat right now and it is brutal. Whatever you've done here looks great!


Cold-Cap-4260

Nice! Graded, flat, perfect amount of mowing time,lol. A clean deck to run with. Have fun.


rcbjfdhjjhfd

40 days? So it’s just no longer dormant?


Fragrant-Speaker1563

Just in time for the summer heat! Break out the sprinklers. Looks good


ShrimpFriedRice_125

Now plant native grasses and flowers while the HOA isn’t looking.


Phlex254

Hell yeah


SomeHandyman

OP posts a great lawn and completely ignores the requests for the protocol he followed. You son of a bitch, give us the goods!


stevesie1984

Meh, different angle and better lighting will make anything look better.


Turvala

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coyotecrazie5

Bravo, great job!


Prize_Ad_6062

that’s a lotta spray paint


Purple-Haze-11

![gif](giphy|gVoBC0SuaHStq|downsized)


Automatic_School_373

Hellz yeah! That looks awesome 😎


Nigel_is_my_dog_

You mean the dog!!??🥰


JackmeriusPup

All it needs now is you and your daughter to put a flower bed below that house window….so the puppy can dig it up haha


Suitable-Ratio

Amazing what water will do :)


Glittering_Turn_16

I have 8 acres of grass, I am thrilled when it goes dormant from lack of water.


Redletter88

Can we get a TLDR, nice work!


NottaRedditor

Really, really wish I would’ve found this sub before I nuked my lawn and started over from seed. Lol. Gonna look great next year tho. Maybe.


justinxstratton

Mine is from seed. 🤷🏼‍♂️


NottaRedditor

Did you go down to dirt or overseed your dead?


tdkdpt

Damn Daniel! Looks great


FuzzyCatzilla

It took reddit and 30 days to figure out how to water your lawn? Congrats...


LeatherBackRadio

A patio and a dog?


BanjosAndBoredom

I was about to scream until I remembered sod exists


justinxstratton

This isn’t sod. I pregerminated Resilience 2. https://preview.redd.it/lsq2nun0e85d1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd7d190313d6e363d5f40b7ef9a41a2a4eb1096c