He also said the mowing schedules for the city parks and cemeteries would not change. Seems more than a little hypocritical to me.
Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application
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It’s totally ridiculous. He’s trying to make no mow May a thing, and it’s not a thing. It never will be a thing. All he does is give lazy people an excuse not to mow.
Dandelions have really never bothered me, mainly because I know they're important for pollinators. But I cant stand having long grass in my yard.
About a month ago I laid some renovator on the yard, seeded the bare spots and covered with peat moss, then just went ahead and overseeded because I bought too much seed anyways. Today I put down some seedsafe fertilizer for crabgrass and a bunch of other listed weeds like dandelions.
Should start raining in about an hour, can see lightning in the distance.
Should start raining in about an hour, can see lightning in the distance.
Dandelions are easy to take care of. My problem is the difficult weeds like creeping Charlie that'll overtake your entire lawn. Don't give your deadbeat neighbors another excuse to let that kind of stuff get out of control.
Get some NutriLime from Earl May. Apply liberally or ask someone there how much.
Or only other thing I've found that works is taking a pitcher of water with me out on every potty break. I can tell every spring when I was lazy and didn't.
Mayoral proclamations are a dime a dozen, wouldn't take it to be a recommendation. Someone makes a request, staff prepares it unless there's a solid reason to decline the request, mayor usually signs even if he/she thinks it's silly. No reason to upset someone over nothing
I get this but when dandelions grow to seed they can spread easily. So let's say you have one person who sprays their lawn with chemicals to kill their weeds. Their neighbor doesn't and the dandelions spread into the already sprayed lawn. This person is upset and now sprays their lawn again (and possibly again, and again, etc) so now this lawn is getting more herbicide then would normally get. Is this a good thing? I honestly don't know, maybe its worth it, but telling people to not mow their lawns for a month just seems like it will lead to an increase of herbicide usage.
I think you are overthinking how much of it is some good PR for certain groups vs the EXTREME minority that actually takes part.
Perhaps you're right. I guess we shall see. I just hope there are not unintended consequences to this.
There are definitely going to be unintended consequences to this. People that don’t own the home they live in and don’t care about their yard can just let the yard turn to ****, despite what the homeowner may want. Glad I’m not in the DM market.
We plant more than enough flowers to make of for the dandelions
I have never considered the pollinator thing. I guess I can rationalize my way out of this. We plant more than enough flowers to make of for the dandelions we don't have. But we enjoy the hobby. My wife hates bees so when we are outside we sit away from the flowers and enjoy them from a distance. A bee or wasp cant get within 10 feet of her without her standing up and swatting air. Yes we have pollinators without dandelions.
I dont get it. Do the flowers in peoples yards add up to that much?
Maybe instead of handing out little trees like the city does every year, they should give away bulbs for early sprouting flowers. And they could have more no mow prairie on city property.
I do bubble baths soaked in this stuff. Life changing.
