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myLot reputation of 97/100. katsmeow1213 (7762)   ranked 459 out of 1,674 in gardening 3 years ago

Do you have a lawn to mow? How do you mow it?

Before we moved we had a very large lawn to mow. It really needed a ride on mower, but we didn't have one, we had to use a push mower, the self propelled kind. It took quite a while, but we'd normally take turns. I'd mow some, hubby would mow some, and my oldest son would mow some... he really liked doing that.

Now we have a much smaller yard, and we didn't bring our lawn mower with us because we didn't expect to have to mow our own yard in a trailer park... pfft! Apparently we do, and don't have a mower.

Hubby is thinking about getting a motorless mower, or a tool that has a long stick and a flat blade at the bottom... I forgot what that's called. We could almost even just use a weed eater. We don't have much lawn to mow, so we'd just need something small that won't take up too much space in our already over-crowded shed!

Who mows your lawn? What do you use to mow it?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 92/100. meandmy3 (1320)   ranked 1,382 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

I would if my husband would not scream at the top of his lungs about my doing so. Since the kids were born I have not touched a lawn mower. When we moved from Chicago to Georgia we hired someone to do it for us. We have a rather large hill in our front yard that would be dangerous for me to try and cut with my ankle injury etc.

So a lawn service mows our lawn and takes care of our shurbs etc. now had he only hired one that looked like the lawn boy from Desperate Housewives (the first season) now that would have been nice, but no I have the overweight white guy cutting my grass and yes he takes his shirt off.


myLot reputation of 97/100. katsmeow1213 (7762)   ranked 459 out of 1,674 in gardening  3 years ago

Darn, there's no emote to make it look like I'm gonna puke! We use to live across from a 70 year old fat guy who'd take his shirt off to mow his lawn. Ew!

I always enjoyed mowing the lawn, it was good excersize. Glad I had the help though cause after 15 minutes I'd had enough.


myLot reputation of 92/100. meandmy3 (1320)   ranked 1,382 out of 1,674 in gardening  3 years ago

Yes it is fairly disgusting.


I am like you I enjoyed cutting the grass, back in the day that is, now I am not sure I would have the time. Our yard is not exactly small and it takes three guys three to four hours to get it completed.


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2. myLot reputation of 95/100. OreoCookie3 (22470)   3 years ago

Hi Katsmeow, we have a very large lawn to mow here, but my SIL gets on the riding lawn mower and keeps it up every Saturday or Sunday. I think they call that tool a sithe... the stick with the blade at the bottom. I think most trailer parks have you keep up your own lawn... when we lived in one, we had to, and we had to weed-eat the place to so that there wouldn't be a place for snakes to hide.

We have found 3 snakes so far in our yard as my SIL mows. He killed one, and I got so upset.. the other two he just moved with a shovel to the bottom end of the property. He was afraid they might try to eat our chihuahua... lol I doubt there's any snakes that big here. w00t


myLot reputation of 97/100. katsmeow1213 (7762)   ranked 459 out of 1,674 in gardening  3 years ago

We lived in a different trailer park about 4 years ago and they took care of all the lawn maintenance. Oh well...

I'm glad we don't have snakes around here! I am not sure how I'd handle seeing one in my yard, especially one large enough to eat a small dog... yikes!!


myLot reputation of 100/100. jillhill (17727)   ranked 321 out of 1,674 in gardening  3 years ago

I don't like snakes either! We are lucky not to have any around here but I am sure up where we have our camper we just might have some!


myLot reputation of 95/100. OreoCookie3 (22470)  3 years ago

We have them in the blueberry orchard. My SIL's mom and dad have a blueberry orchard .. it's a U-pick blueberry farm. I've seen little black snakes there.. no one seems to be scared of them. I was once when one startled me.. and his dad took it and moved it to near the bar. I think it was a rat snake.

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3. myLot reputation of 100/100. jillhill (17727)   ranked 321 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

I hire mine done and that's the way I like it....ah huh....I am older but not that old but still in all have problems with my knees...so my neighbor does it with his grandson. He charges me a nominal fee and in return he mows both our yards at the same time so they both look good....that is a pay off for him who is very fussy about his yard!

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4. myLot reputation of 94/100. thaMARKER (2340)   3 years ago

we used to mow before. i cant forget it because we do have our own grasscutter. i dont know what happen to that. hehehe.. we dont have much grassess, its all flowers around the house..

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5. myLot reputation of 97/100. peavey (7336)   ranked 39 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

My nephew mows mine. I can't do as much as I used to, so I hired him to come do it for me every week. My yard isn't all that big, but the back yard is like running an obstacle course because I have plots here and there with vegetables growing in them, along with flowers.

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6. myLot reputation of 89/100. kalaga (499)   ranked 158 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

we started mowing lawn recently.it is a must.first time we mowed from outside services.but then bought one mower and started mowing.first time is very tough.knowing all the things about mowing and edging takes lot of time and practice.atlast second time it was a bit easy.but came to know that the trimmer is not that good.but i guess it takes time to get used to it also.anyway best of luck.

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7. myLot reputation of 99/100. lingli_78 (12264)   ranked 580 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

i never have to mow the lawn because my house doesn't have any garden... it is just a small backyard... and we couldn't be bothered to mow it since me and my hubby just don't have much time... both of us are working full time and already feel very tired by the time we reached home... so we just leave our backyard as it is... take care and have a nice day...

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8. myLot reputation of 96/100. dawnald (24284)   ranked 54 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

"Honey, the lawn needs to be mowed."

Actually he just does it. We have a gas powered mower...

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9. myLot reputation of 82/100. spalladino (11857)   ranked 1,603 out of 1,674 in gardening   3 years ago

My husband takes care of the lawn, edging and shrubs, which he really enjoys, while I take care of the flowerbeds. He has a riding mower now because we have a larger yard and it gets pretty hot down here in Florida. My youngest daughter used to help him from time to time but he really prefers doing it himself. He says it's relaxing.

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10. myLot reputation of 96/100. TrvlArrngr (2891)   3 years ago

you can get a manual mower pretty cheap - take a look on craigslist. my son is now old enough to mow ours but i used to enjoy it. we have a small gas mower

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