best quality lawn tractor image
nc1kcfan
My husband and I are looking into buying a lawn mower/tractor to mow about 3 - 4 acres. We are thinking about either a JD 2210 or JD 4115. Does anyone have a suggestion of any others, especially of lesser cost, but the same quality for the amount of mowing to be done? Also, suggestions on which size of deck and the amount of time it would take to mow this amount would be great. We have a Torro with a 54" deck now, but we are sharing it with my father-in-law and it is becoming a hassle to take back and worth every week or so. Plus, we have to get the bushhog to use too. We use the Torro for yard (about 1.5 acres) and the bushhog for the other acres. That's why we need one that would be great to do it all! ~thanks
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I'd Look at exmark or grasshopper's..., any 42 inch with a hydro riding mower will do 1.5 acres easy though... I'd also think about simplicity/snapper mowers as well. Simplicity owns snapper.
I'd Look at exmark or grasshopper's..., any 42 inch with a hydro riding mower will do 1.5 acres easy though... I'd also think about simplicity/snapper mowers as well. Simplicity owns snapper.
How to get a beautiful lawn?
Drzzt
I'm a first time homeowner. My home is lovely, but my yard is not. My lawn has bald spots, thinning spots, crab grass, weeds, etc....Since I'm a new home owner I do not have any idea to where I should even begin with renovating my lawn into a decent yard. Any advice/guidance and/or step by step instructions would be appreciated.
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You have a couple of options. One is to use sod. You have to do it correctly, but if you do and you're yard isn't huge, then this is a great option for a quick beautiful lawn.
The other option is to seed, fertilize, weed, etc... your existing lawn. It's a good deal of work and money as well, but you'll get a nice lawn from it. What you'll need to do is kill your old grass if it's really weedy and and you don't like the grass there. You can do this with poison or by putting large dark colored tarps on it till it's all dead. We spent a lot of money on seed once, paid a guy to till up the whole yard with a tractor, planted seed, put out straw on it all, watered it, etc... the fescue came back and choked it al out. Another option is a machine that runs a blade a few inches under the ground and cuts the plants off at the roots. Then you can take it up like carpet grass and dispose of it.
Once the grass is dead, you need to till the soil. If you have poor quality soil, this would be a good time to mix in something to make it better. You can have dirt brought in and take someone with a real tractor (not a lawn mower someone is calling a tractor) and they can spread it and till it in. We spread with a front end loader and box scraper. Whe also have a piece we borrowed from my uncle and it has two rows of spikes that bust up clumps of dirt and two heavy, spring loaded metal cylinders that have spikes on them. I planted grass a couple of weeks ago and this tool made it so easy. I ran across the ground several times and it pretty much tilled, leveled and aireated all in one go. I then threw down seed and ran over it again to bury it. It's started coming up and looks good.
Once you have the seed and fertilizer put out on your dirt and raked in. You need to soak the ground down till water stands. Then keep it moist to damp for a month. Let the grass grow up pretty tall so that it establishes a deep root system before you cut it. I'm talking about a foot or so. You'll need to water it 2-3 times a week all summer to establish it and then as you feel it's needed in the following years.
Fertilizer will help you lawn grow well and be green, but only use it if you really need it. Our lawn is strong and we tried unecessary fertilizer one year. It just meant we needed to mow twice a week instead of once a week. However, weed poison is something you do want to put out every year. Preferably twice a year. Once in the spring to kill what's coming up before it has a chance to seed. If you do it too early before you start seeing a lot of weeds, then you want kill the majority and they'll come up and seed. It's good to do it in the fall as well, because that's when any plant is storing up anything they can to last them through the winter and to boost their growth come spring.
It's also beneficial to dethatch your yard if it's thick and to aereate it once or twice a year. Good luck with your lawn and I hope you have one you can be proud of.
You have a couple of options. One is to use sod. You have to do it correctly, but if you do and you're yard isn't huge, then this is a great option for a quick beautiful lawn.
The other option is to seed, fertilize, weed, etc... your existing lawn. It's a good deal of work and money as well, but you'll get a nice lawn from it. What you'll need to do is kill your old grass if it's really weedy and and you don't like the grass there. You can do this with poison or by putting large dark colored tarps on it till it's all dead. We spent a lot of money on seed once, paid a guy to till up the whole yard with a tractor, planted seed, put out straw on it all, watered it, etc... the fescue came back and choked it al out. Another option is a machine that runs a blade a few inches under the ground and cuts the plants off at the roots. Then you can take it up like carpet grass and dispose of it.
Once the grass is dead, you need to till the soil. If you have poor quality soil, this would be a good time to mix in something to make it better. You can have dirt brought in and take someone with a real tractor (not a lawn mower someone is calling a tractor) and they can spread it and till it in. We spread with a front end loader and box scraper. Whe also have a piece we borrowed from my uncle and it has two rows of spikes that bust up clumps of dirt and two heavy, spring loaded metal cylinders that have spikes on them. I planted grass a couple of weeks ago and this tool made it so easy. I ran across the ground several times and it pretty much tilled, leveled and aireated all in one go. I then threw down seed and ran over it again to bury it. It's started coming up and looks good.
Once you have the seed and fertilizer put out on your dirt and raked in. You need to soak the ground down till water stands. Then keep it moist to damp for a month. Let the grass grow up pretty tall so that it establishes a deep root system before you cut it. I'm talking about a foot or so. You'll need to water it 2-3 times a week all summer to establish it and then as you feel it's needed in the following years.
Fertilizer will help you lawn grow well and be green, but only use it if you really need it. Our lawn is strong and we tried unecessary fertilizer one year. It just meant we needed to mow twice a week instead of once a week. However, weed poison is something you do want to put out every year. Preferably twice a year. Once in the spring to kill what's coming up before it has a chance to seed. If you do it too early before you start seeing a lot of weeds, then you want kill the majority and they'll come up and seed. It's good to do it in the fall as well, because that's when any plant is storing up anything they can to last them through the winter and to boost their growth come spring.
It's also beneficial to dethatch your yard if it's thick and to aereate it once or twice a year. Good luck with your lawn and I hope you have one you can be proud of.
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