I got the front yard finished now and part of the backyard, since my weed eater is battery powered i am now on a forced time out lol. Next weekend i will mow. Its a half acre and its about all i can do in this heat....weedwack one weekend and then mow the next tho next weekend i work all weekend so maybe if i finish the backyard early i'll mow a little, the very back of the back yard grows faster than the rest of the yard for some reason.

I tried a lawn service here just once, i had one request...do not mow behind the garage as i had a litter of feral kittens that i didn't want terrified by those big mowers...guess where they mowed with that big ole zero radius mower...yep behind the garage...they wondered why i didn't pick up a contract with them.

another day and looks like it is going to pour again.

I was working today so no yard work anyway. The water is starting to stand instead of soak in tho i have noticed.

Pea, that sounds like a mighty big yard. (Yay, more room to PLANT!)

Laura, are those your little adenium seedlings of which you speak? :)

I really need a few days to dry out so I can get some work done. It very hard to hang gutter it the rain. It just don't work.

When I bought my house five years ago, I began digging up the lawn with help from my son and husband and began planting shrubs.

The shrubs have grown so big in 4 years, they need to be moved but I now have very little lawn space.

I do not have a sprinkler system and can't hand water the lawn so it dies out each winter. When the rains come, it gets full of weeds which is fine with me. Its green!

I do have a guy to mow but I'm hoping the plants will leave little need to mow.

Jane

No mowing got done today, i got home from work just in time to see the rains pour down. Yesterday i got the portion of the back yard weed wacked that i didn't get last weekend but no time to mow...the grass is gettin tall...maybe next weekend i can get the mower out between the rain as i don't work this coming sat. or sun. My neighbors managed to mow yesterday while i was at work so my yard looks all the taller.

Now the back 1/4 of my yard has 3" of water sitting on it...it was the portion i managed to weed wack this past weekend also the portion that my mango tree is. The yard flooded like this last june also but it had never flooded previously. Wonder what has changed drainagewise...the yard behind me is fenced and i can't see if they may have done something to redirect the water to my property.

I got my wish and it dried out so I could get some work done but oh boy is it hot.

Sunday is my yard work day...hope it stays dry enough to mow without it clogging up the mower. I pulled a bunch of balsm apple vine away from my tangerine tree today...that poor tangerine tree is dying...the heart is rotting out of it. If it lasts another two years i will be surprised.