On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 07:56:45 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 6/13/2016 7:26 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:
On 6/12/2016 11:35 PM, Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
Got too many weeds in one patch of the yard about 15x30 and decided to kill or remove all the old grass/weeds and start fresh with new seed.

I'm wondering if I covered it with tarps, how long would it take for the grass and weeds to die? I don't want to spray it with herbicide. Temp will be around 75-80 from now until August, then 80-90 until mid-Sept. No rain excepted any time soon.

Thanks.


Lawns are out these days, you stupid *******.


That might be true in California, where I live. However, there are
still areas of the globe where fresh water is so plentiful that it can
still be wasted on landscapes.

I mow ten acres of gorgeous lawn each week for six months of the year
and I've never watered... the northern Catskills Hudson Valley has
some of the finast soil on the planet (the very rich top soil on my
property is a good six feet deep), I never fertilize or use any chems
either. The only watering is from natural precipitation, sometimes
too much:
http://i63.tinypic.com/2wren8w.jpg
Lovely ginkgo tree I planted:
http://i65.tinypic.com/10sewpe.jpg
My favorite spruce, planted eight years ago on my 65th birthday:
http://i68.tinypic.com/2eci2w0.jpg
Getting ready to demolish my rental cottage, druggie *******s don't
pay rent, they should all over dose and die, quickly:
http://i64.tinypic.com/154zzx0.jpg
Will be a great spot to plant a half dozen more fruit trees, I'm
thinking a variety of semi dwarf plum, I don't worry about the crop
size, the blossoms are spectacular. However I can sell the fruit at a
roadside stand on an honor system but mostly getting rid of that
cottage will reduce my property taxes about two grand, more than I've
ever cleared on rent, when they paid which is rare these days, the
economy sucks... students come out of college in heavy debt and with
NO marketable skills