Tenacity to kill the weeds, be sure to use surfactant, core aerate, overseed, and some upkeep would do the trick.
It takes some doing but can be repaired over time.
Any-Ingenuity-7568
spend your time and energy growing a garden. Nothing better than going to your own garden and eating strawberries, blueberries, chard, lettuce, zucchini, raspberries.
_Significant_Otters_
Holy grading batman. What’s with the house on the hill.
I was in the same boat for a while and started a routine. The routine has to be maintained for several seasons. Fall aeration, overseed, cut short in the spring, overseed again right before a rainy week, occasional fertilizer and mix in a bunch of clover. Yes, clover. Don’t kill it off. Let it grow with whatever grass you want to grow. When it starts really warming up, increase your mower height a ways. Don’t cut short or anything newly established will fry in the sun. Lower it a bit as you hit late September and areate/overseed again.
You need to fill in gaps before you go nuts on weeds. You need the backup force of other grasses and clover to help crowd stuff out. And clover will improve the soil quality at the same time. Weeds fill in bare areas. No bare areas, they’re kept at bay long enough to pull without you going crazy. No bare areas means weeds can’t seed bare spots while you’re ripping them out. Yes, pulling weeds with nothing behind it to grow in will make the problem worse.
Mechanical first, chemical second if you can manage that. I’ve found just being patient in a routine is easier. You could rip all that out tomorrow, sod in, and be back in the same situation if you don’t have a good routine. It’s not an overnight fix but it’ll get you there if you’re patient and consistent.
Narrow_Roof_112
The fence is an abomination.
ProbablyNOTaCOP41968
Is there a reason your neighbor has decided that they’re too good to not be 10ft higher than anyone else lol
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Tenacity to kill the weeds, be sure to use surfactant, core aerate, overseed, and some upkeep would do the trick.
It takes some doing but can be repaired over time.
spend your time and energy growing a garden. Nothing better than going to your own garden and eating strawberries, blueberries, chard, lettuce, zucchini, raspberries.
Holy grading batman. What’s with the house on the hill.
I was in the same boat for a while and started a routine. The routine has to be maintained for several seasons. Fall aeration, overseed, cut short in the spring, overseed again right before a rainy week, occasional fertilizer and mix in a bunch of clover. Yes, clover. Don’t kill it off. Let it grow with whatever grass you want to grow. When it starts really warming up, increase your mower height a ways. Don’t cut short or anything newly established will fry in the sun. Lower it a bit as you hit late September and areate/overseed again.
You need to fill in gaps before you go nuts on weeds. You need the backup force of other grasses and clover to help crowd stuff out. And clover will improve the soil quality at the same time. Weeds fill in bare areas. No bare areas, they’re kept at bay long enough to pull without you going crazy. No bare areas means weeds can’t seed bare spots while you’re ripping them out. Yes, pulling weeds with nothing behind it to grow in will make the problem worse.
Mechanical first, chemical second if you can manage that. I’ve found just being patient in a routine is easier. You could rip all that out tomorrow, sod in, and be back in the same situation if you don’t have a good routine. It’s not an overnight fix but it’ll get you there if you’re patient and consistent.
The fence is an abomination.
Is there a reason your neighbor has decided that they’re too good to not be 10ft higher than anyone else lol