2025 Lawns & Gardens Thread. Making Lawns Great Again

[backedgeapproaching]

4 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Why am I having subtle brown spots showing up all over my lawn? They were hard to see at first, but more noticeable now 

Would need pics to make any educated guess.

[dendrite]

4 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Why am I having subtle brown spots showing up all over my lawn? They were hard to see at first, but more noticeable now 

New girl popping squats?

[dendrite]

Lots of catkins on one of my American chestnut trees this spring. I’m hoping to get my first flowers and burrs this year. 
 

[dryslot]

Time to plant the carrots now that we have the seeds germinated.

[klw]

Friday was a nice display of the compaction and drainage issues I mentioned recently about why I am having trouble maintaining grass in the area below.

 

[tunafish]

9 minutes ago, klw said:

Friday was a nice display of the compaction and drainage issues I mentioned recently about why I am having trouble maintaining grass in the area below.

 

Ouch.  Your best bet may be to move the papers, dig down a few feet and drop a weed cloth, perforated pipe, and crushed stone, top with pea gravel for the entire paver area.  Run that pipe to the woods if possible. If not, get past the house and dig a wide catch basin (there's a specific plastic part to drop in that spot, I can't recall the name).  Unfortunately with standing water like that you can't do a half solution.

[tunafish]

We had a huge issue in the Spring (or xmas) whenever we had a big rain on frozen ground.  Dug a French drain trench as described and 0 standing water since.

[klw]

20 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Ouch.  Your best bet may be to move the papers, dig down a few feet and drop a weed cloth, perforated pipe, and crushed stone, top with pea gravel for the entire paver area.  Run that pipe to the woods if possible. If not, get past the house and dig a wide catch basin (there's a specific plastic part to drop in that spot, I can't recall the name).  Unfortunately with standing water like that you can't do a half solution.

That is my general plan.  I believe the pipe is already in place the water can't get to it because of how solid the "soil" is above it.

[tunafish]

25 minutes ago, klw said:

That is my general plan.  I believe the pipe is already in place the water can't get to it because of how solid the "soil" is above it.

Yep, that'll do it. Might as well be frozen if it is that compacted.  

[DavisStraight]

13 hours ago, tunafish said:

We had a huge issue in the Spring (or xmas) whenever we had a big rain on frozen ground.  Dug a French drain trench as described and 0 standing water since.

Only time I had water in my basement was in December one year where it was really cold for a good stretch then it rained hard, rain just stayed on top of the frozen ground and came in under my door. I waterproofed it after that and that was the last and only time.