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July is the month I have to fish or cut bait and buy a lawn mower. I'm crossing my fingers for a robotic one but if I can't find one I'm going to go for an electric ride on. Failing that I might flip a coin between push and gas powered ride on.

I was looking up at a neighbors gutters and it had a plant growing in it. It made me think, why can't you have a gutter system where you grow something...like peppermint or other herbs in it. It can still has downspouts to drain extra water. I know it might need some extra engineering to ensure...

I have had this crazy thought for years of planting mint and letting it take over the whole yard. (I hear its hard to prevent once its planted anyway.) The plot would be, every time I mowed, whatever parts of my yard had it, would smell like mint. Is it a wivestale that mint is so hardy that...

I see a lot of threads recommending the county extension. It seems like such a big intense official step to take. How does it usually work? It can't be as simple as a phone call. Is there usually a charge or does there have to be a minimal amount of damage, ecological distress before you call...

I was watching the mower guy today. I wanted to see how his ride on (a super spiffy commercial one, I must say) handled. I realize he had handles to steer rather than a steering wheel like I've seen on John Deers. Which do you prefer on a ride on? A steering wheel or individual handles?

I have a friend who is struggling with a pack of raccoons (3-4) who have moved into his empty rental property. Does anyone know how to safely get rid of raccoons?

I've learned new things recently, here in fact, like not to roll your lawn without aerating. I'm thinking my lawn needs a good rolling, so I'm wondering how one goes about aerating a lawn. Do you do it before or after aerating? What other reasons would one aerate the lawn? Am I spelling that right?

I'm starting to feel like a mad scientist in here. :confused2: I feel like there is only a small percentage of us interesting in modding mowers...and since most of my mods are all hippyish I'm not sure if I count as much. :biggrin::tongue: I would love to hear more about other peoples mods. The...

I have a cherry tree that looks sicker every year. Its got green lichen like stuff growing over more and more of it. The first year we moved here it had almost none on it. Is there anything I can do to save it? Its one of my three favorite trees in the yard.

I was looking up mower mods and came across this article: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980508173109data_trunc_sys.shtml It describes how mowers can propel an item as fast as a gun can. It also gives a case study of a four year old shot by a mower with a piece of chain link. This is one of...

I looked out my back window and saw a big fat ground hog wandering in the (now needs to be mowed) grass in the back yard. We have a lot of animals (deer, racoons, an occasional skunk once a year, mice and bunnies and birds definitely) that randomly walk through our back yard, but I cannot...

I'm about to show how long its been since I've mowed a lawn (if technology has progressed). I really hate having to pull the cord to start the mower. Are the newer push mowers able to be started with a push of a button, or are they all mostly pull cord started. This could help tip me towards or...

What about this! I could give up my plans for a modification on a mower and just go with grass terminator 2 here: http://gizmodo.com/364924/husqvarnas-autonomous-solar-powered-lawnmower-never-mow-again Alas I don't really have $4000 to spend on a mower. Anyone with the cash to guinea pig it?

I asked before in a different thread if we should kill bees. A lot of people said no, but I also noticed that some people will kill some bees and not others. Is there only one or two types of bees we should be protecting because of the drastic decline in the super important pollinating bee...

Here is the third mod I was talking about. I remember growing up running over snakes or other animals and being horrified. It didn't have to be tall grass either. I know that the vibration and vroom vroom should scare them away but it doesn't always. I was thinking of some version of a cow...

My backyard has a lot of pocks, holes, and wide shallow dips. Before I moved in the yard was dug up for a lot of buried stuff. The grass grew back over it, but it was never smoothed out properly. Some of these dips fit your foot, and some I can lay down in, if I am slightly curled up. Other...

I know sometimes they can be a scary nuisance, but with all the news of the bee shortage and the devastation on crops that cause, should we take extra care not to kill bees when we're busy exterminating other pests and weeds?

I've heard some argument that you should rake your leaves, and others that it's better to mow them and let them sit...at least for healthy soil. But I was wondering in the summer, we have flowering trees and all sort of trees that drop propellers and and seed pods. And I mean a lot of them! Is...

I'm not sure if this should go into the What Type of Mower should I buy forum or here, but since I suspect you can't get these on the market (from the briefest of google searches....they may exist), I'm thinking the discussion might trend towards feasibility. Again, this goes with my obsession...

So, the guy who comes and mows the lawn use to mow the front (which isn't big) with a professional ride on mower he hauls on a trailer behind his work truck. He mowed the back with a push mower because his big one couldn't fit through the fence. The landlord recently had him remove a large...

I have lived in a place for a bit now that has a yard, but I am only now becoming responsible for the yard myself. I have this crazy dream to mod mowers so they will be environmentally friendly. The only problem is, I'm not sure how much toward reality my ideas are. I've got about three ideas...