Every summer, I spend most of my gardening time digging out grass and putting in beds. The way it looks to me, this guys is well ahead now - just start making the beds. 
When I first became a suburbanite I applied fertilizer to my lawn. I used a broadcast spreader (left by the previous owner). I didn’t really know the difference between broadcast and drop spreaders and I ended up applying too much fertilizer. I ended up with a striped lawn (the grass was yellow where too much fertilizer had burned it). Although I eventually got smarter about things like that, I eventually decided that the smartest thing to do was to lower my expectations regarding the lawn.
Sort of how I regard my sexual skills.
Not necessarily. I never water or fertilise my lawn, and I think I’ve used weedkiller on it once in the last five years. The only time it takes up is mowing it a couple of times a month. Sure, it has some moss and clover in it, but that’s just as green and even more comfortable to walk on, if anything.
Trying to have a lawn if you live in a desert area of the USA is a different matter, admittedly. In England, just about any unattended patch of soil will try to turn into a lawn.
“Just find some good grass, and roll it every day for three hundred years.”
Yes, your lawn isn’t typical.
20 years in this house, haven’t fertilized or weed-killed it yet. Remember, if you water it and feed it, you have to cut it.
It’s got clover in it, and some other weeds (some strawberries). But when I mow it, it looks OK, and it was comfortable for the kids to play on. I do think that not bagging my clippings helps (and now a mulching mower). Other than what blows into the street or driveway, I’m not taking any of the nutrients away.
By “expert” do you mean the high school kid manning the till?
I see the the article mentions he consulted with 3 employees. :dubious: I know the place he went, several better choices closer to home in my opinion. I’m guessing he is a [DEL]3M employee that ran there on his lunch break[/DEL] a little googling and it looks like he is an insurance agent.
I wonder how the conversation went? Was it?
“I need something to kill the weeds on my lawn. It is quite large. What do you recommend?”
Or was it?
“Hey! Will this stuff kill the weeds growing on my lot?”
I’m thinking it was something closer to the second and that is why he is going after the manufacturer and not the garden center.
Here, we have had NO rain in 2 1/2 weeks-the grass is burning up…but the damn weeds are doing fine! The crabgrass is the picture of health…and the good grass is dying.
The native stuff is used to this. The fancy, pretty stuff isn’t.
The picture on the bag is cut off, but it looks like it has a picture of a dandelion growing through a sidewalk crack. Might give an additional hint of what it was meant to be used for.
This was a local story here and they went into more detail. He admits he and the store employees both made a mistake but he showed that there were two different bottles of the stuff.
One had a picture of a big green lawn on it and one had a picture of weeds on it.
One was for killing entire lawns and one was for killing just weeds.
Unfortunately the one for killing entire lawns had the picture of weeds on it and the one for killing weeds only had the picture of a lawn on it.
Guess which one he grabbed?
At any rate, I bet they change their packaging.
They don’t really make it for killing lawns, it’s just a catch-all plant killer. The broad leaf killer that is made to spare your grass would naturally have a picture of a beautiful lawn on it, since that’s really the the only place you use it.
there are quite a lot of kids who aren’t really let out of their house by their parents now, all that stranger danger crap. Our neighbor has roughly 5 acres of parklike golf course sort of groomed lawn that they have a yard crew in twice a week to maintain and a sort of play groundish area with structures and a basketball hoop. I have seen the kid out there all of once in his 15 years - there was a birthday party for him when he was 7.
Being mainly a stay at home, I get plenty of time watching their area, I can see it across our pasture out my office window.
Maybe they prefer video games or reading to playing outside. I had a backyard that I did play in, but my mom would have to push me out the door in the summer because I’d be inside reading.
Hell, we played Army in a storm culvert.
Little bastards wouldn’t admit they were dead when my plastic bazooka shell hit them.
We should have sent sappers under the street.
Hah! Actually we did run off into the nearby swamp and such. I’m pretty sure my mom still doesn’t know that I fell through the ice on a pond one winter and my little sister was too tiny to help, and (my perception was that) I just barely managed to save myself when the ice stopped crumbling under my mittens such that I could drag myself out. Everyone who talks about being free-range kids tend to leave out those stories in the retelling later when they talk about being “just fine”! 
I guess we should’ve stayed on the manicured lawn! :eek:
I grew up really close to there, glad to see they are still in business. Anyone know if they are still sandwiched between the DQ and the fish store? And yeah, my dad was a 3M’er.