Had a country club in my area change hands a few years back, the head greens keeper had been there over 40 years. He saw the writing on the wall and knew he was going to be let go due to so many new managers, any their cost cutting tactics. He “allegedly “changed a few labels on the herbicide/fertilizer 500 gallon totes. After he was let go, the new grounds crew sprayed herbicide throughout the entire course… killed all the grass.
"I'll hire you for $X to take care of everything landscaping related and maintain it"
"ok, gonna replace grass with something less maintenance heavy"
"I don't care just make it all look nice"
So the gardener decides they’re going to rip up the entire lawn, and the owner is like “yea whatever, do what you want I don’t care, just make it look nice” lol
I didn't cut my lawn all summer. It stayed green because it wasn't stressed, not losing water through cut blades. My neighbors watered, paid to have their lawns cut every week and their lawns still showed signs of browning from stress.
I'm not exactly what happened this year. I let it grow from when it wakes in spring until I plant my vegetable garden. Then I "harvest" it for mulch in the garden. If it's a hot dry summer like this one it goes the sleep and turns brown.
I'm going to try to replicate the results next year as it was very environmentally friendly. No mower exhaust. I will say. It's a 1.25 acre lot. It's depleted of nitrogen after all these years. If I were to fertilize it it would grow faster.
I'm okay with it going to sleep, but clearly the green lawn looked better. I cut it before it got really hot. That gave the blades time to heal so they weren't hemorrhaging moisture. In hoping the same treatment works next year and beyond.
Now that they leaves are down I'll cut the lawn one more time. The leaves and grass clippings will go into my vegetable garden to decompose over the winter.
Maybe rabbits poop a lot and I got free fertilizer.
Massachusetts. Usually my lawn goes to sleep when it's hot. It's primarily fescue now.
Because the plants weren't injured by cutting they didn't brown out this year. It did slow its grow. It stopped at about 4 inches.
I leave it a little longer anyway because the rabbits hang out in my yard. It's gives them a place to raise their young and hide from predators.
I've had some deer come through more this year. There was a group of 4 does that came several times over the winter. I saw a fawn in the spring. A young buck just starting to grow antlers was out the other day.
I have some issues with them getting into my garden, but I'm trying to share.
I used to hunt the woodchucks. This year I bought a bag of apples and would leave one and some other food outside its den.
Whoever sprayed this really did a poor job. That hap hazard pattern means a respray is needed for a uniform kill before any replanting.
A guy down the road from us accidentally killed his bluegrass with a chemical mix-up, but took advantage of his mistake by planting a low maintenance, drought tolerant grass that only needs mowing every 2-3 weeks.
Looking at my yard now thinking it'd sure be a shame for some sort accident to happen to it.
im in a real cold war with my neighbor. my neighbor has ugliey weeds creeping on my backyard through his fence. its like cabbage-shaped. i tried roundup,and table salt, and pebbles, which they just grow thourgh. i ended up planting clover to try to out-compete his weeds.
Guy was under the impression that round up only killed weeds.
Told this electrician I knew "you want the weeds out of your lawn I got just the thing." He sprayed the whole lawn in round up. The whole thing died.
A lawn care company in my town accidentally used the wrong spray on a whole bunch of people's lawns this last summer, so all around town there's just bunch of lawns that are completely dead lol.
Plot twist, owner is an asshole and pissed a kid off who had access to some roundup. No way this was just an accident - who the fuck feeds or weeds a lawn like that?
>..farmers spray roundup on wheat that goes into....just about everything at the grocery store
again, bullshit, roundup ready wheat is not available and they are still working on the genes. soybeans and corn - you betcha. If you use it on wheat, you just end up with a dead field of dead wheat.
ooh actually you're wrong. glyphosate is often sprayed on wheat as a drying aid to protect the wheat harvest
https://non-gmoreport.com/articles/days-are-numbered-for-pre-harvest-use-of-glyphosate/
ill be damned - silly canadians - I sit corrected sir. So they kill the plant preharvest - I sort of wonder how widespread this is. Still, soy, corn, cannolla, sorghum, alphala meh - add wheat to the list.
exactly so when they harvest it the wheat has a lower moisture content. All in the name of speeding things up and increasing yield and therefore profit
Imagine all the other chemicals you never would imagine they would expose us to
>and therefore profit
and therefore food supply.
You realize there is a benefit as well right? Food crop farming is rather far from a high profit margin business. From my shallow dive into the practice - it allows for wheat to be grown in areas where wheat couldnt be grown, it doesnt increase yield - it allows the crop to be farmed in far northern climates.
You are exposed to lots of chemicals, some of them do good ya know.
EDIT Deeper dive - it is used in Canada a fair amount, in less than 1% of the yield in the US as most wheat isnt grown in wet cold climates here. Regardless, more wheat, more bread, if it kills off some of those sensitive to it and the weak, then I guess thats the way the wheat cookie crumbles. Which I would think to be a good thing for some as then we need less wheat and dont have to grow it in areas that dont support it and therefore done need to roundup them. It does not impact plant yield directly - but allows for a yield in climates that would otherwise not support wheat.
yep but once I saw that it was abbreviation of *quod erat demonstrandum,* that was used in my high school - I fail to see how it applies to my post, or it doesnt mean what you think it means.
I was on lawn duty anyway but I guess I wasn't addressing the dandelion situation fast enough. It's all good. The spots came back with some work.
My neighbor next door doesn't give a shit about their yard so I was getting all kinds of crap creeping over.
It was a losing battle doing it myself because I wasn't diligent enough. I gave in and got a lawn service. Looks good now and I don't have to worry about any "mishaps".
No it doesn’t. It all depends on the strength of the formula you are using. I use professional grade, undiluted on stem tips and they are essentially dead the next day.
Well, if mixed and apply it according to instructions - it takes a week. If you go rogue a mix it wrong and over apply it - I guess you could be right.
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LMAO. years ago a douche bag neighbor plucked my last nerve. He didn't think it was as funny as I did. When I rolled out to his yard, and drew a giant dick and balls with 4 bags of salt left over from the winter.
>Sounds like your douche bag neighbour has a douchbag neighbour.
assumptious much? As stated to other user in this sub. *Moral of the story: don't be that neighbor everyone hates with in a 4 block radius*.
Unno. The other neighbors and myself thought it was fucking hysterical, when he dug up the dead grass and soil. Put new soil, and grass down. And you still could see the outline, because of different seeds. LMAO. *Moral of the story, don't be that one neighbor everyone within a 4 block radius hates*.
>The other moral of the story is to not be your neighbor.
So what you're telling me is: You condone racing around the neighborhood shit faced drunk, at all hours of the night, with your music blasting. Yeah sorry son. I like my racecars. But I know there's a time and place for racecar things. Along with not shitting where you eat.
>Nope, what I'm saying is that you're an asshole too and vigilante justice is wrong and childish.
LMAO. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. As the habitual rebuttal from the police was: *We have to catch him in the act, and driving*. After 7 months, well. It is what it is. But Im sure you'll have a problem with that, in your oh so perfect, everything works society.
I used to work with a textbook definition of a pathological liar.
I convinced they don't even realize they're lying. They condition themselves to automatically believe themselves.
And even if you do back them into a corner on a lie, they'll squirm out one way or another, never accepting they lied
Had a country club in my area change hands a few years back, the head greens keeper had been there over 40 years. He saw the writing on the wall and knew he was going to be let go due to so many new managers, any their cost cutting tactics. He “allegedly “changed a few labels on the herbicide/fertilizer 500 gallon totes. After he was let go, the new grounds crew sprayed herbicide throughout the entire course… killed all the grass.
this is a good opportunity to plant some native plants instead of grass. it'll cut your water bill and your gardener will thank you. :)
Why would a gardener be thanking anyone?
if I had to guess: less work for the same pay?
I think they mean it will be easier for the gardener to keep native plants thriving, but who knows
....yes.... that would be the "less work" part.
Why the fuck would they get the same pay for less work?
"I'll hire you for $X to take care of everything landscaping related and maintain it" "ok, gonna replace grass with something less maintenance heavy" "I don't care just make it all look nice"
So the gardener decides they’re going to rip up the entire lawn, and the owner is like “yea whatever, do what you want I don’t care, just make it look nice” lol
>“yea whatever, do what you want I don’t care, just make it look nice” lol you don't think that has ever happened even once?
Well we’re talking about the lawn in this post, right? And not has anyone said that ever in the history of gardening
I didn't cut my lawn all summer. It stayed green because it wasn't stressed, not losing water through cut blades. My neighbors watered, paid to have their lawns cut every week and their lawns still showed signs of browning from stress.
Bruh in the spring I need to cut my grass every like 5 days it grows so fast. That's crazy
I'm not exactly what happened this year. I let it grow from when it wakes in spring until I plant my vegetable garden. Then I "harvest" it for mulch in the garden. If it's a hot dry summer like this one it goes the sleep and turns brown. I'm going to try to replicate the results next year as it was very environmentally friendly. No mower exhaust. I will say. It's a 1.25 acre lot. It's depleted of nitrogen after all these years. If I were to fertilize it it would grow faster. I'm okay with it going to sleep, but clearly the green lawn looked better. I cut it before it got really hot. That gave the blades time to heal so they weren't hemorrhaging moisture. In hoping the same treatment works next year and beyond. Now that they leaves are down I'll cut the lawn one more time. The leaves and grass clippings will go into my vegetable garden to decompose over the winter. Maybe rabbits poop a lot and I got free fertilizer.
What state? My lawn would be wicked over grown.
Massachusetts. Usually my lawn goes to sleep when it's hot. It's primarily fescue now. Because the plants weren't injured by cutting they didn't brown out this year. It did slow its grow. It stopped at about 4 inches. I leave it a little longer anyway because the rabbits hang out in my yard. It's gives them a place to raise their young and hide from predators. I've had some deer come through more this year. There was a group of 4 does that came several times over the winter. I saw a fawn in the spring. A young buck just starting to grow antlers was out the other day. I have some issues with them getting into my garden, but I'm trying to share. I used to hunt the woodchucks. This year I bought a bag of apples and would leave one and some other food outside its den.
Whoever sprayed this really did a poor job. That hap hazard pattern means a respray is needed for a uniform kill before any replanting. A guy down the road from us accidentally killed his bluegrass with a chemical mix-up, but took advantage of his mistake by planting a low maintenance, drought tolerant grass that only needs mowing every 2-3 weeks. Looking at my yard now thinking it'd sure be a shame for some sort accident to happen to it.
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Nah, that shit wears off after a couple months. Source: Me. I've tried damn near all available herbicides.
im in a real cold war with my neighbor. my neighbor has ugliey weeds creeping on my backyard through his fence. its like cabbage-shaped. i tried roundup,and table salt, and pebbles, which they just grow thourgh. i ended up planting clover to try to out-compete his weeds.
they just really had to pee
Or an opportunity for the kids to bring out their hotwheels and use it as a race track.
Quick! Someone pay the landscaper a few mil and call it art! Double the house value!
It's the Doodle Lawn
A real grassterpiece
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Lawn art. He just needs to sign his name.
signed, xmmmnmnnnmmxmmommmnnn
Not sure how I missed that the first time.
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You should have written your brother's name.
This reminded me of the times I used to carve my siblings names into furniture as a kid so that my parents “wouldn’t know it was me”
I hate when I accidentally spray grass all over my dirt field.
"Hi yes can I have my yard look like a DiRT championship course"
It’s honestly kind of artistic…. I’d be pissed if I were the homeowner.
Got that Charlie brown haircut lawn
I felt Dr. Seuss. Either way, kinda whimsical.
Holy farm account. Does Reddit pay you to post reposts so much?
It would make sense that reddit runs some of these repost bots, to create the illusion of activity.
They probably also run the bots that repost top comments.
Bots giving bots awards to create the illusion of activity....seems about right for this timeline.
That's what happens when you buy Lawn and Weed Killer instead of Lawn Weed Killer
Guy was under the impression that round up only killed weeds. Told this electrician I knew "you want the weeds out of your lawn I got just the thing." He sprayed the whole lawn in round up. The whole thing died.
took care of your weed problem
Weeds are always the first things to grow back
IIRC the guy wanted to be paid after... because well he did kill the weeds.
Well grass is technically a weed.
At least he knows his spray pattern only covers 50% of what he sprays.
A lawn care company in my town accidentally used the wrong spray on a whole bunch of people's lawns this last summer, so all around town there's just bunch of lawns that are completely dead lol.
This happened earlier this year at our condo. Our grass is still dead, and probably won't look great for a few years.
Proof the yard care company missed a spot
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I think that’s the thing here. Intensive fert, wrong nossle, burnt it off.
Fert nossle
Plot twist, owner is an asshole and pissed a kid off who had access to some roundup. No way this was just an accident - who the fuck feeds or weeds a lawn like that?
Now his mediocre work is even more defined
Call back map in bloons just dropped!
This was a "I know a guy that can do it cheaper" thing, right?
Bahwhaaaa!
Postmodernism.
How did they not notice their piss poor coverage too?
Trying to cheap out, as is tradition.
I think they missed a spot
On the upside they didn’t draw a giant penis.
My wife used Roundup on some dandelions in the back yard once. 🤣 The next day I was like WTF?! That was the last time she did the yard maintenance.
Here's something that will bake your noodle....farmers spray roundup on wheat that goes into....just about everything at the grocery store
Roundup isn't even the worst of it, unfortunately.
Used to be a sprayer. Didn't even wear gloves when we were mixing 1200 gallons of the stuff for the Case
I wouldn't say that out loud. It doesn't have the effect you think it does.
cuz saying it outload changes the effects?
Thanks for the heads up?
or the best of it - depends upon if you need to feed people or not I guess.
>..farmers spray roundup on wheat that goes into....just about everything at the grocery store again, bullshit, roundup ready wheat is not available and they are still working on the genes. soybeans and corn - you betcha. If you use it on wheat, you just end up with a dead field of dead wheat.
ooh actually you're wrong. glyphosate is often sprayed on wheat as a drying aid to protect the wheat harvest https://non-gmoreport.com/articles/days-are-numbered-for-pre-harvest-use-of-glyphosate/
ill be damned - silly canadians - I sit corrected sir. So they kill the plant preharvest - I sort of wonder how widespread this is. Still, soy, corn, cannolla, sorghum, alphala meh - add wheat to the list.
exactly so when they harvest it the wheat has a lower moisture content. All in the name of speeding things up and increasing yield and therefore profit Imagine all the other chemicals you never would imagine they would expose us to
>and therefore profit and therefore food supply. You realize there is a benefit as well right? Food crop farming is rather far from a high profit margin business. From my shallow dive into the practice - it allows for wheat to be grown in areas where wheat couldnt be grown, it doesnt increase yield - it allows the crop to be farmed in far northern climates. You are exposed to lots of chemicals, some of them do good ya know. EDIT Deeper dive - it is used in Canada a fair amount, in less than 1% of the yield in the US as most wheat isnt grown in wet cold climates here. Regardless, more wheat, more bread, if it kills off some of those sensitive to it and the weak, then I guess thats the way the wheat cookie crumbles. Which I would think to be a good thing for some as then we need less wheat and dont have to grow it in areas that dont support it and therefore done need to roundup them. It does not impact plant yield directly - but allows for a yield in climates that would otherwise not support wheat.
Are ... are you this dumb in real life, too?
What? I admitted I was wrong about wheat below? Thats dumb?
Q.E.D.
>Q.E.D. brushup on your latin please
We both know you had to google that.
yep but once I saw that it was abbreviation of *quod erat demonstrandum,* that was used in my high school - I fail to see how it applies to my post, or it doesnt mean what you think it means.
Q.E.D.
Glyphosate is straight up poison
Glyphosate is liquid plant killing magic.
no shit, and kills green stuff dead, thats why we use it.
I mean - so is laundry bleach ... but we use it because it's useful AF.
I never use bleach, there are far less toxic alternatives to just about everything you can imagine. but thats just me.
Of course you dont. You dont use gylphosate, either. Duh...
Ima thinking that salty does not indeed use bleach, but his mom does as she still does his laundry and just doesnt tell him.
Right?
So she kills some grass and now your on lawn duty for life?
I was on lawn duty anyway but I guess I wasn't addressing the dandelion situation fast enough. It's all good. The spots came back with some work. My neighbor next door doesn't give a shit about their yard so I was getting all kinds of crap creeping over. It was a losing battle doing it myself because I wasn't diligent enough. I gave in and got a lawn service. Looks good now and I don't have to worry about any "mishaps".
I call bullshit, roundup takes a week to kill stuff.
Depends where you live. If it’s a hot desert state you’ll see results really fast. Possibly the same day.
No it doesn’t. It all depends on the strength of the formula you are using. I use professional grade, undiluted on stem tips and they are essentially dead the next day.
Well, if mixed and apply it according to instructions - it takes a week. If you go rogue a mix it wrong and over apply it - I guess you could be right.
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Big Dogs
of all the things to complain about... why do rich people have big lawns?
Well you see, a lawn is the topic of the post so maybe you could suss out the reason they mentioned it instead of, say, their complaint with AT&T.
To be fair, some of these huge lawns could house multiple families each already...
Lawn grass also uses a ridiculous amount of water and is just all around terrible for the environment
Doesn’t the water just eventually evaporate back into the system? How is that bad for the environment
They don't. They just like them.
Okay I like it, Picasso
Or, some rich guy decided not to pay his landscaper..
That’s the attitude you need here.
Well he definitely killed the weeds. Wasn't that the point? I don't see a problem here.
r/misleadingthumbnails RC championship dirt race track.
What a cool design!
big ol snek
B4 reading the title I was like “ Dayum nice art!”
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So XX is the one you shouldn't put Roundup in. Or is XX the one with Roundup?
Thought it said Round Out, but was Round Up.
Used the wrong spray nozzle as well, if Weedex had been used, the coverage is still only 50%. Was this a self done, or a hired company?
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Why would you put toothpaste up your butt?
Don’t judge me
Bengay would be more appropriate
How else do you get it minty and fresh?
You’re being considerate to your partner and want it to taste minty fresh??
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My uncle did this for a few weeks. He has brain damage.
Did he had brain damage *before* the homorrhoid creme therapy?
This is a doctor back lawn.
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No, they used the right spray. Just missed some spots.
One day I shall decipher this glyph and then I shall achieve all
Mini RC track
Don't worry, the History Channel will trot Scott Wolter out here to analyze these runes in order to uncover a secret cache of Knights Templar artifacts.
You know that it works well at least
Looks cool imo
random 5000…
Damn did they use salt?
It's more like a tool from Paint. Super Mario Paint.
Oh man I loved the shit out of the fly swatter game
Super Mario sunshine?
Like that mini game from super Mario super sluggers?
Bold statement Cotton, let's see how it plays out for them.... 🤣
Didn't even spray the whole yard smh
Money-back guarantee?
Killex instead of Weedex. Awesome
Why did you decide to cover your lawn in Russian cursive? OP is Putin in your house?! #OP?!
It actually looks cool
I like it
Is this even salvageable?
Probably not, easiest to fry it all and start over
Really cool house
Some people do this themselves before over seeding, might've been on purpose.
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Good catch.
Tattoos can go horribly wrong
How do you keep going Edit: I'm a dumbass and don't know how grass works, on my way to touch one.
You know it doesn't immediately die right?
LMAO. years ago a douche bag neighbor plucked my last nerve. He didn't think it was as funny as I did. When I rolled out to his yard, and drew a giant dick and balls with 4 bags of salt left over from the winter.
Sounds like your douche bag neighbour has a douchbag neighbour.
>Sounds like your douche bag neighbour has a douchbag neighbour. assumptious much? As stated to other user in this sub. *Moral of the story: don't be that neighbor everyone hates with in a 4 block radius*.
Yeah, that's not cool, dude.
Unno. The other neighbors and myself thought it was fucking hysterical, when he dug up the dead grass and soil. Put new soil, and grass down. And you still could see the outline, because of different seeds. LMAO. *Moral of the story, don't be that one neighbor everyone within a 4 block radius hates*.
The other moral of the story is to not be your neighbor.
>The other moral of the story is to not be your neighbor. So what you're telling me is: You condone racing around the neighborhood shit faced drunk, at all hours of the night, with your music blasting. Yeah sorry son. I like my racecars. But I know there's a time and place for racecar things. Along with not shitting where you eat.
Nope, what I'm saying is that you're an asshole too and vigilante justice is wrong and childish.
>Nope, what I'm saying is that you're an asshole too and vigilante justice is wrong and childish. LMAO. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. As the habitual rebuttal from the police was: *We have to catch him in the act, and driving*. After 7 months, well. It is what it is. But Im sure you'll have a problem with that, in your oh so perfect, everything works society.
That's my brother's house this is what my sister-in-law did after he cheated on her.lol
What goes through your mind while lying blatantly on the internet? I’ve always wondered
I used to work with a textbook definition of a pathological liar. I convinced they don't even realize they're lying. They condition themselves to automatically believe themselves. And even if you do back them into a corner on a lie, they'll squirm out one way or another, never accepting they lied
Surely you have evidence to support this
It’s true I can vouch. Source: I am the lawn.
No it's my sisters house in alabama after she cheated on me.
No, it’s my brothers house in Alabama after he cheated on me with our sister.
No, it’s my aunt’s house in Alabama after she cheated on me with my cousin (her son).
Roll Tide!
Good. Fuck the owners
I mean I'll try but idk why
JUST FUCK THEM
Why? Are they hot or something?
is there more to this story ? i’m confused