What's involved in caring for a large yard?

[Anonymous]

Look more closely to the trees you have versus the yard/grass. Do they need professional trimming- as in; are they gigantic? It is an expense you have to budget. Also, beware of ivy growing all around a tree in a complete circle; that is not a healthy tree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dandelions aren't hard to uproot at all! you just need the right tool. It's a metal tool with a forked tongue like a snake, and you dig the forked tongue under the roots of the dandelion and pop it right out. Takes a few seconds per dandelion. You can use it for other weeds too, like crabgrass.

The problem I have is that after I've spent some time weeding, I get the urge to pull dandelions from other people's yards. I've managed to fight it so far.

you are welcome to come pull dandelions in our yard!!!! (said after spending a couple hours outside pulling weeds in a very small yard)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dandelions aren't hard to uproot at all! you just need the right tool. It's a metal tool with a forked tongue like a snake, and you dig the forked tongue under the roots of the dandelion and pop it right out. Takes a few seconds per dandelion. You can use it for other weeds too, like crabgrass.

The problem I have is that after I've spent some time weeding, I get the urge to pull dandelions from other people's yards. I've managed to fight it so far.

Lol. For years I take my Felco hand clipper in pocket when I go for walk with the dogs in Rock Creek park. I obsessively have pruned the path leading down from Park road for YEARS. It is public forest...I can't stop myself...It is the neatest little path in the woods, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The great irony of the large back yard is that parents buy them thinking that they will have great quality time with their kids, but the reality is that the time they spend with the longer commute (assuming you commute to the city to work) to buy the larger property and the time they spend caring for their lawn results in *less* time actively engaged with their children.

I spend a lot of time in my large in town backyard planting, watering weeding and raking--all with my kids. So, no irony here.