Can we talk lawns please?

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How about mulch? Skip growing anything and spread it all around. It can look good.

I have no grass in my backyard. We put in an inground pool and then landscaped with bushes and mulch. No fertilizing and no mowing. It’s really gorgeous. I also have big pots with flowers.
 
newf said:
How about mulch? Skip growing anything and spread it all around. It can look good.

I have no grass in my backyard. We put in an inground pool and then landscaped with bushes and mulch. No fertilizing and no mowing. It’s really gorgeous. I also have big pots with flowers.
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**Well that option most certainly IS on our list, “Things To Do After Winning The Lottery”😃 **
We would love to have an inground L-shaped pool put in, any other shape would either be way too small for all of us or require trees be completely removed, but that’s many years down the road if ever.
 
Haha, I didn’t mean the pool part…although it is a piece of heaven. And I hope you DO win the lottery and get one someday.

But the mulch really is easy and nice looking.
 
Personally, I wouldn’t worry about it. Since your kids are just going to be trampling all over whatever you plant next, I’d go with mulch, or just leave it the way it is.

Have you ever felt Astroturf? Maybe it’s come a long when since a previous owner put it on our front step, but the stuff we have is ROUGH.
 
aurora77 said:
Have you ever felt Astroturf? Maybe it’s come a long when since a previous owner put it on our front step, but the stuff we have is ROUGH.
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No, no, not cleat scrubbing turf! :eek: That patio stuff is rough because it’s meant to clean shoes before they get in the house! VERY practical for it’s purpose, but not intended to be soft. no, they make some now that like carpet. In fact, I saw one of those make over shows a long time ago use it for indoor carpet for a little girl’s horse stable themed bedroom and a boy’s campout in the woods themed room.
 
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No, no, not cleat scrubbing turf! :eek: That patio stuff is rough because it’s meant to clean shoes before they get in the house! VERY practical for it’s purpose, but not intended to be soft. no, they make some now that like carpet. In fact, I saw one of those make over shows a long time ago use it for indoor carpet for a little girl’s horse stable themed bedroom and a boy’s campout in the woods themed room.
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:o I had this image of a yard like a football field. What you describe sounds pretty neat.
 
my mom made a rock garden in our front yard cuz there were 2 big trees and grass would not grow. under the big evergreen she planted woodland plants that like shade, even a trilium flourished there, and on the other side, a rock garden with miniature plants.

here we just have rocks and a few native plants–cactus, yucca, mesquite (which I hate, i hope they take it out), and some big aloe looking thing with long spikes of pink flowers, ugly but it attracts the hummingbirds.

for a shady area with trees look for an easy maintenance ground cover that is native to the area, likes the soil and does not run wild, ask a nursery for advice.
 
I am about to put wood chips all over my yard. The kids have one of the battery powered cars and they have warn a track around the yard. Were the swings are there are big mud holes. The sand box has no grass around it because they keep spilling sand out of it. They have trampled the lawn so bad that the crab grass is about all that will grow and I am thankful for something green so I let it. I have a corner of the back yard that I claim as my own. The kids know that if they touch it their lives may come to a screaching halt. I only have three kids of my own that are out trampling, but they have the entire neighborhood over every evening. Lawn care scares me. Like I have time to research grass types. There is know way I could afford to have someone come tell me what to do. Better send me a couple of dozen flamingos. I am so bad ya better send toad stools and trolls also. Heck through in a concrete donkey while your at it.
 
Alabama Here…My yard never had any grass because of two very large shade trees. I had tried everything… Then after I met and married my husband (he is from Missouri) he worked on the ph of our soil and planted “Perinial Rye” (NOT ANNUAL) grass. We now have a beautiful lawn!! Our grass is very green in February when everyone else still has the brown stuff!! We have grass under all the trees!! And this stuff is tuff! It is meant to be cut and bailed…

Jerry Baker has great information on how to treat your yard and what types of grasses work best in the diffenent climates.
 
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