Yard Work

[aja8888]

You mentioned possibly moving into an apartment and that’s why I mentioned that you can pad train a dog. I live on the third floor of my condo building and even with an elevator would not want to have to take a dog outside all the time.

Usually it takes me months to pad train an older dog when I adopt one. The last dog I adopted 2 months ago was using the pad by the end of day 3 because she saw the other dogs using it. I was really happy she’s so smart.

OK, understand where you are coming from. If I do go in an apartment, it will be a consideration, although I don't mind going for walks daily.

 

[Teacher Terry]

OK, understand where you are coming from. If I do go in an apartment, it will be a consideration, although I don't mind going for walks daily.

I walk my dogs daily but would have to take them outside 5-6 times a day as they are older. Many people here do that but it would be a giant pain plus sometimes I am gone all day. Plus if I’m sick I don’t have to go out. When I had my house I took them outside and had pads.

 

[skyking1]

@Car-Guy
I'd have to spend a lot of time with a dozer and fine picking to get it smooth enough for anything but a brush hog. It would be the death of a normal rider.

 

[homestead]

@Car-Guy
I'd have to spend a lot of time with a dozer and fine picking to get it smooth enough for anything but a brush hog. It would be the death of a normal rider.

Toro has a Myride suspension system, makes a bumpy terrain tolerable.

 

[Jerry1]

My yard work is coming to an end. We just got notice that our offer on a condo was accepted. Lots of changes, but I don’t think yard work will be something I miss.

 

[SnowballCamper]

I've got a lot of native grasses in the garden. You're right about the once-a-year pruning but otherwise I love them. I assume you have some sort of fabric under the gravel. My last house had plantings around the pool with gravel mulch and the builder apparently put nothing down to keep weeds out so they were poking through the gravel. A real pain to pull them.

In most areas there is no fabric, but the gravel is over4" thick. Lots of weeds grow by the edge of the road where the seeds blow in, but the interior areas with densely planted native plants don't get many weeds. It has more of a forest understory feel than a formally landscaped garden...on purpose.

 

[skyking1]

Toro has a Myride suspension system, makes a bumpy terrain tolerable.

these are the rocks I found by braille with the excavator in the deep grass. There are plenty of others lurking.

I'll not be mowing with a mid-mounted mower deck down there. A 3 point brush hog or a flail mower is the ticket, unless I civilize the whole thing.

 

[Koolau]

My yard work is coming to an end. We just got notice that our offer on a condo was accepted. Lots of changes, but I don’t think yard work will be something I miss.

One more reason we bought a condo instead of SFH.