It's been so hot and dry here that nothing has grown. I've watered the potted plants and the tomato patch, but everything else seems to be in suspended animation.
Recent rains have got the yard looking shaggy for the first time in two months, so we'll have to neaten that, otherwise, there really hasn't been much to do.
2007-09-06 05:57:29 · 17 answers · asked by felines 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Steve G -- OW! I hope you're; healed now. I'm so sorry that happened to you.
2007-09-06 13:50:37 · update #1
Goldwing -- If you couldn't enjoy your home THAT would be a bummer. Your home is your haven. How fortunate that you have it fixed to be so soul-soothing.
2007-09-06 13:53:53 · update #2
Jennyann 4 -- Our yard man of 15 years has spent this summer in the slammer. He got caught driving on a suspended license. Our yard has suffered, because he has taken such good care of it in the past. We're thinking of contracting with a professional company.
2007-09-06 13:56:59 · update #3
We redid our front yard with a new short wall and cleaned all the weeds out. General maintance. Not a great time for this kind of work in HOT,SUNNY Arizona. Hoping to sell in a few years.
2007-09-06 07:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by sherry85641 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got things done in landscaping but not as much as I wanted to. As a matter of fact today I have to go out into the yard and complete some work before the rain comes. Gotta do it while the sun is still shining warmly. The winter won't allow the concrete to set properly now will it? And I have a lot of building with this material to do for the yard. So I did get some peppers, tomato's,pumpkins, lettuce, cucumbers, poppies, dill, Castor beans, grapes, blueberries, sunflowers, weeds and about a hundred pounds of crabgrass to grow this summer.
2007-09-06 06:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We've had so much rain that I'm having trouble just keeping up with the mowing. This is the first time in years that we've needed to mow more than once a week. Nice for the water bill, but tough on the old keeper of the lawn!
2007-09-06 07:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by EvilWoman0913 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We laid sod around the pool and front yard. Especially timing it for hurricane season rains. Too bad they haven't come in yet. We have spent a fortune on taking down tree limbs also preparing for hurricane weather. Alas it will probably begin to rain in the middle of September and rain through November giving us a cool damp early winter. But the up side is we haven't mowed much at all.
2007-09-06 07:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did I? I am not in a place where I can enjoy yard work any longer...I have done that my entire life. Did I hire day labor to do what I wanted....you betcha! And my yard is a wonderful tropical paradise that gives me peace...close that gate and the outside world disappears!
But if the drought continues, I am afraid that I am going to have to fall in love with desert landscaping (I hate desert landscaping). AS it is, I have NO grass, but lush, tropical plants, a wonderful, restful Koi pond with stone waterfalls, a lanai off the front bedrooms....all in all, I no longer like to go on vacations to spas or anywhere...I can't find a place I enjoy as much as my house..and that is a real bummer!
2007-09-06 07:32:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yard work is strictly a spring and autumn activity in the Upper Mojave desert. It's always "one hundred and OMG" from the end of May until early September. Haven't been able to plant and tend my produce garden for three years now because of the drought.
2007-09-06 11:20:04 · answer #6 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I was not able to do the yardwork this Summer. I live in an area where we have had record rains. Most the flowers, I planted drown. My peach tree drown and so on.
It is been the strangest Summer I've ever experienced!
2007-09-06 08:27:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been dry and hot here as well, and I have been keeping cool in tha Pool mostly. So the consequence is a lot of weeds, and and since it rained it is green, that is a blessing, in it self.
2007-09-06 11:51:19 · answer #8 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I planted a vegetable garden that is doing well, although it's been too hot for some of my veggies.
Apples have come in early this year. We usually pick them in October and they're ready now. Same with the blackberries. They're early and plentiful.
2007-09-06 06:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by katydid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had a wonderful; older man that was my handy man and he died and I liked him as a friend and as an artist when it came to taking care of my yard so no my yard does not look at it did last year.
2007-09-06 08:20:57 · answer #10 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋