Lawn

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

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

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

Well I woke to quite a surprise this morning!   Mushrooms everywhere in the new lawn.  Bryn had mentioned he mowed a bunch down when he mowed on Saturday but I didn’t think a lot about it.  He didn’t mention that it was like this. Wow! I guess some things get lost in the verbiage I [...]

Continue Reading There are Mushrooms Everywhere in the New Lawn

Tags: ants, grass, Lawn, spiders, Topsoil

After weeks of nightly, hours long, rainy downpours they have subsided a bit, but now we’re getting these daily thunderstorms ripping across the Catskills and through town.  I posted a video of one the other day which was pretty fantastic and very active for our area.  The thunderstorm video below is in the daytime and [...]

Continue Reading Another Day, Another Thunder Storm

Tags: bluestone, grass, gutters, Lawn, patchmaster, planter, seed, storms, thunderstorm, Video