Went quartz crystal mining today.
Had a good time. Shoes full of sand. So is everything else, come to think of it.
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Phew! Iām so glad we got that cleared up! lol
(( @enginerd )) I got u, man. 
And thanks, @amal I need all the luck I can get! 
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So uhhā¦ what you doin with that sand buddy?
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So I started my lawn routine a couple weeks ago. Had a bit of a whoopsie by not raking up last yearās leaves and I just left them in a pile and got then taken care of once the snow melted. None the less I had a big patch of dead grass.
Anyways I started the process once ground soil temperatures hit 50* and I didnāt have to risk frost.
I mixed up my pre-emergent which is for 1000sqft 1 tablespoon of tenacity, with 3/4oz of triclopr to 1gal water and one tea spoon of dawn and blue dye so I can see where I applied. Used a pump sister
This sits for 3 weeks with normal mowing bagging clippings.
3 days before the 3 weeks is up, everyone elseās lawn is going to look great and mines going to look like it just rolled out of bed after a binge. At this point itās when you begin pregerminating your grass seed for an overseed.
Get about 10lbs of your favorite noncoated seed, I use an elite rye blend.
Put it in a beer brewers bag, tie tightly, and then in a 5 gallon bucket and fill with room temp water until completelysubmerge.
Change the water with clean room temp water every 12hrs.
By the third day you will be ready to spread.
Prep your lawn by mowing on the lowest setting.
Bag the clippings. Then dethatch your lawn. I use a sunjoe, you can use a regular thatching rake (rip your back) and then mow again to pick up the thatch that is now on top of the lawn. After this step Iāll never bag clippings for the rest of the season.
Your lawn is now prepped for seed. You should have little groves for the seed to rest in which will great soil to seed contact.
Take your pregerminating seed and bucket and drain it. Let your seed drip drain while you clean and dry your bucket. Get a bag of milorganite and mix about 50/50 wet seed to milorganite. The purpose is to coat the seed with the milorganite dust and dry it out. I usally layer pouring milorganite, then wet seed, mix with my hand, and repeat. It should mix really nicely and not clump.
You should have something like this(note the sprouted seeds)
From here you can put it in a drop spreader and spread away. Usually 2lbs per season or 5 for a thick overseed.
Water in fully and about an inch of heavy watering every morning for a week and your entire lawn should fill in on about 7-10 days. Should be able to mow at 14 if your soil isnāt compacted.
Hereās today. Iāll post back in a week.
This is my preseason lawn work. In two weeks Iāll do grub treatment one. In three weeks Iāll likely do another milorganite treatment with some extra iron, and Iāll switch to twice a week watering. 7 weeks gets grub treatment 2. I try to mow twice a week once it is established at around a half inch to an inch depending on heat stress.
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Ummmm, holy fucken detail batmanā¦
Thats some great dedication and information, BUT
Itās all gibberish to 96% of the world, so here it is in NORMAL
Preseason LAWN by Hamspiced in METRIC
So I started my lawn routine a couple weeks ago. Had a bit of a whoopsie by not raking up last yearās leaves and I just left them in a pile and got then taken care of once the snow melted. None the less I had a big patch of dead grass.
Anyways I started the process once ground soil temperatures hit 10Ā°C and I didnāt have to risk frost.
I mixed up my pre-emergent which is for 93 m^2 15 milliliters of tenacity, with 22 milliliters of triclopyr to 3.8 liters water and one 5 milliliters of dawn and blue dye so I can see where I applied. Used a pump sister
This sits for 3 weeks with normal mowing bagging clippings.
3 days before the 3 weeks is up, everyone elseās lawn is going to look great and mines going to look like it just rolled out of bed after a binge. At this point itās when you begin pregerminating your grass seed for an overseed.
Get about 4.5 kilograms of your favorite noncoated seed, I use an elite rye blend.
Put it in a beer brewers bag, tie tightly, and then in a 19 liter bucket and fill with room temp water until completelysubmerge.
Change the water with clean room temp water every 12hrs.
By the third day you will be ready to spread.
Prep your lawn by mowing on the lowest setting.
Bag the clippings. Then dethatch your lawn. I use a sunjoe, you can use a regular thatching rake (rip your back) and then mow again to pick up the thatch that is now on top of the lawn. After this step Iāll never bag clippings for the rest of the season.
Your lawn is now prepped for seed. You should have little groves for the seed to rest in which will great soil to seed contact.
Take your pregerminating seed and bucket and drain it. Let your seed drip drain while you clean and dry your bucket. Get a bag of milorganite and mix about 50/50 wet seed to milorganite. The purpose is to coat the seed with the milorganite dust and dry it out. I usally layer pouring milorganite, then wet seed, mix with my hand, and repeat. It should mix really nicely and not clump.
You should have something like this(note the sprouted seeds)
From here you can put it in a drop spreader and spread away. Usually 0.9 kilograms per season or 2.3 kilograms for a thick overseed.
Water in fully and about 2.5 centimeters of heavy watering every morning for a week and your entire lawn should fill in on about 7-10 days. Should be able to mow at 35.5 if your soil isnāt compacted.
Hereās today. Iāll post back in a week.
This is my preseason lawn work. In two weeks Iāll do grub treatment one. In three weeks Iāll likely do another milorganite treatment with some extra iron, and Iāll switch to twice a week watering. 7 weeks gets grub treatment 2. I try to mow twice a week once it is established at around 1.3 to 2.5 centimeters depending on heat stress.
And fuck it, lets make this a metric / freedom recepie ... YOU WILL NEED
- Ground soil temperature: 50Ā°F is approximately 10Ā°C.
- Pre-emergent mix:
- 1000 sq ft is approximately 93 square meters (m^2).
- 1 tablespoon of Tenacity is approximately 15 milliliters (mL).
- 3/4 oz of triclopyr is approximately 22 milliliters (mL).
- 1 gallon of water is approximately 3.8 liters (L).
- 1 teaspoon of Dawn is approximately 5 milliliters (mL).
So, for 93 m^2, youād mix roughly 15 mL of Tenacity, 22 mL of triclopyr, and 5 mL of Dawn with 3.8 L of water. You might need to adjust these amounts slightly depending on the exact area youāre treating.
- Grass seed: 10 lbs of seed is approximately 4.5 kilograms (kg).
- Bucket size: A 5-gallon bucket is approximately 19 liters (L).
- Seed spreading rate:
- 2 lbs per season is approximately 0.9 kg per season.
- 5 lbs for a thick overseed is approximately 2.3 kg for a thick overseed. Again, this is for your total lawn area. For a more precise application rate, youād typically use grams per square meter.
- Watering: 1 inch of water is approximately 2.5 centimeters (cm) of water.
- Mowing height:
- Mow at 14 days
- A half inch to an inch is approximately 1.3 to 2.5 centimeters.
So, to summarize your routine in metric:
You started when ground soil temperatures hit around 10Ā°C.
For a roughly 93 m^2 area, you mixed about 15 mL of Tenacity with 22 mL of triclopyr in 3.8 L of water, plus 5 mL of Dawn and blue dye.
This sits for 3 weeks with normal mowing and bagging.
Three days before the 3 weeks are up, you begin pregerminating about 4.5 kg of your preferred seed.
You place the seed in a bag, then in a 19 L bucket filled with room temperature water until submerged, changing the water every 12 hours.
By the third day, youāre ready to spread.
You prep your lawn by mowing on the lowest setting, bagging clippings, dethatching, and mowing again.
You drain your pregerminated seed, mix it roughly 50/50 with Milorganite (by volume), and spread it using a drop spreader at a rate of around 0.9 kg for a regular overseed or 2.3 kg for a thick one (for your total lawn area).
Water thoroughly with about 2.5 cm of heavy watering every morning for a week. You should be able to mow at around 3.5 cm (if that was your intended height) in 7-10 days.
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Days not inches
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Everything after this sentence sounds like this to meā¦
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Sameā¦ I can barely keep a succulent aliveā¦
Anyways, this updated version of the encabulator is also great:
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Heās from about two hours from me. Love his videos.
I love lawn care. Itās the only inexpensive hobbies I have
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Of course Chinese GPS is two way so the sats CAN track youā¦ jfc
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Yep. heās hilarious
Why not both???
Hammys lawn in 14 days
do you own just one lawn mower?
He obviously has more than oneā¦ And probably a bunch of lawn equipment with names that I canāt even pronounceā¦
Never thought that our local PilgrimsmasterAI would hallucinate like thatā¦ 
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Technically two.
I have a Toro Timemaster but for the nice crisp lines I have an old school reel push mower.
Not really. I believe what I have is just basics except my dethatcher. But that was a Christmas present.
As far as lawn I have.
Lawn mower
Reel mower
Weed Wacker
Blower
Pump sprayer
Drop spreader
Sunjoe dethatcher
Thatās really it. I made a little tool for striping lines with the timemaster thatās just a PVC tube filled with sand that drags behind the mower. But thatās literally all I use. The dethatcher is the only specialized tool and itās only used a couple times a season. Beginning of the season and end of the season. I do have a leveling rake but now that my lawn is nice and level thatās not used anymore.
Just fyi there Hammy. I only know 5 of 7.
Then again I hate mowing (for repetitiveness). I do own a reel mower (my only piece of lawn equipment), but it was for a robotics project / idea, and Iāve had it brand new and partially dissasembled for 12 years.
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Nice looking desk toy for all you magnetos
#Youāre welcome
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