Lawn and Garden

I noticed a lot of interest in my sprinkler timer review post and I wanted to expand on that a bit. In this post I’ll tear apart the Vigoro 3015V Sprinkler Timer and see what inside of it and makes it work.  This timer has worked reliably for me, but I switched to the Orbit [...]

Continue Reading Vigoro 3015V Sprinkler Timer Internals and Valve Design

Tags: disassemble, grass, Lawn, sprinkler, watering

Wow, today was a scorcher once again, it’s been pretty warm out lately but that didn’t stop work from proceeding on painting the house and doing some yard work. Fridays are half day for me and it feels like we worked all day on some of these projects. We’ve been slowly scraping and priming the [...]

Continue Reading Painting and Yardwork in 92 degree heat

Tags: ants, house, painting, planter, Planting Beds

Well it looks like Summer has -finally- arrive, we’ve had a few 90 degree days this week. Not nearly as bad as they got out west, but I don’t do well in 90 deg days and 80+ % humidity.  I was planning to start digging out for the front sidewalk this weekend, but put it [...]

Continue Reading Weather Slowing Down New Front Sidewalk

Tags: Concrete, grass, Lawn, Radio Control, Weeds

A New flower bloomed in my yard about Mid-June. After some research I discovered that it is an Orange Trumpet Vine as you can see from the photos here. Earlier this week I spotted the new flower peeking out through the forsythia along the main highway. They’re very colorful and have a really neat way [...]

Continue Reading A New Flower Bloomed – It’s an Orange Trumpet Vine

Tags: flowers, summer

The Scott’s PatchMaster I put down a while back has been doing well so far.  It grew in pretty fast and has just been thickening up.  It has now been mowed quite a few times.  We started mowing when it ‘looked decent’ and have just kept mowing it as part of the normal yard. It’s [...]

Continue Reading Another Scott’s PatchMaster Performance Update

Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, seed, sprinkler, Topsoil