Very nice! Welcome to TLF. Looks like you've got had some great results with your levelling and fertilization.

 

Looks damn good! :thumbup:

 

Looks very good. Really makes me want to talk the wife into a leveling project but I think I'll get some stink eye. Should show her your pictures.

 

Just gave her a fresh mow!













Made the mistake of top dressing with cheap soil from Homedepot $1.75 a bag!





The top soil had tons of debris in it as you can see. Well you get what you pay for I guess. Now on to looking for a bulk sand retailer!

 

Thanks for the encouraging words gentlemen!

 

So the neighbor gave in and hired me to get his lawn up to par with mine! Oh the power of domination!

He has been paying a local company for weed control and fertilization. The irony the day he asked me to do his lawn said company came out and "spot sprayed" a weed and feed! Here is what a waisted $75+ will get you! Green lines lmao!



So, I threw down some herbicide two days ago and gave her a fresh mow, along with my lawn, and put some pounds on the ground of Milo! Should see some good results here in a couple days!



This lawn journal just took on another lawn! Going to try and convince the neighbor to go half on some sand to level out both lawns! Gonna post pics every time I mow these bad boys and after any treatments as well!

 

He did the right thing to fire his company, and it's a good thing you're close to help out. Talk about ghosting (in this instance they actually did spray something)!

 

Fresh mow with the new 16" SunJoe Reel Mower! Got her down to 1.1"

oh yeah mowing low!








So I have a question for some of you Subject Matter Experts:

After my mow I notice what looks like burn marks or some little bits of yellowing in the stolons















If any body could identify the issue here it would be greatly appreciated I have done some research to no avail! Thanks in advanced team!

 

Update # 3,











We are getting there with the neighbors lawn! Had to resort to some Scott's Turfbuilder and liquid Ironite but we have seen some progress. He has thick thatch and the granules just don't seem to be taking!

As for my lawn, I treated with some Scott's disease-ex and boy did it work just fine! Lawn resumed its normal growth in-fact too much growth! A lot of seed heads have popped up producing a white haze of sorts. None the less gave the main lawn a SunJoe 1.1" manicure and the rest of the lawn - and neighbors- a ~1.9" mow! Looking great and seeing progress on both sides of the fence!

Side note: the neighbor agreed to go halfzees on the sand to level both lawns! NICE! Hope it's not to late in the season to level, any thoughts?

Respectfully,
Jason B.

 

I think (don't know) that as long as it's activelt growing and growing well it should do ok.

Plan on trying to convince the wife to do one myself next spring

 

Does your neighbor still have their Christmas lights up?

 

@Bunnysarefat he sure does! They are Vietnamese so I think they are still in the process of assimilating to our customs! Lmao

 

Got my Milo Merch today!!!!



Thanks to the Milo team for the swag!

 

:shock:
You've got something special going on there.
I also noticed what looks like an acid stain on the driveway and perhaps the sidewalk. I almost went that route myself. It looks good, especially with the garage door.

 

@social port Thanks brother! Yeah we had the driveway acid stained and poly'ed right when we bought the house around 3 years ago!

 

Ok so today is is T minus 1. Prep day for the big leveling project on Saturday! Basically, my neighbor ask me what else we could do to his lawn to make it better. So we walked around his lawn and I showed is where there was compaction and a lotta low spots in the lawn. He asked me how to fix the low spots and I informed him of top dressing and leveling. He asked me when was the next time I was planning to do it at which point I told him I would probably do it next year, because I was saving up for it! This man insisted that he would pay for the entire project if I put in the work! Well I sure as s*^%# didn't shy away. So after consulting with a couple of greens keepers from golf courses around my AO, I found a reputable sand and gravel company that is delivering 8 yards (12 tons) of 70%-30% top soil-sand mix TODAY! Gonna aerate and scalp this afternoon and throw down that dressing on TWO lawns tomorrow! Oh yeah! Gonna burn some dagon calories! Will post some before, during and after over the next couple days! Stay tuned if you have questions, concerns, or even ideas about leveling projects!

 

Ok so good news and a bit of bad news!
Good news is I just saved a whole bunch of money on my car insurance! NOT, just a little joke for myself since I'm the only one who reads this journal! Haha. No but really, the good news is I just made my first ever homemade drag mat for my leveling project saved a crap ton of money doing it as well!







Bad news is it's going to rain today and tomorrow... therefore the project has been postponed till Monday! Oh well gonna have time to rest up!

In the mean while check out this LOTM inspired photo!

 

So just to catch up on the journal: Monday morning I woke up early and did some prep for the Great Big Level of 18, hence forth called GBL18, just marked off some low spots I wanted to focus on:





Shortly after the sand/soil mix arrived!



And.... I went straight into the back breaking work!







After I got all the piles out on both lawns I started to knock them down and realized quickly that I had bit off more than I can chew!



It was so much work that my absolutely beautiful wife even came out to assist me with the project, mind you this is at about 9pm just around sunset here in Good o'le Oklahoma!



This next picture is when I realized that I had place WAY to many piles on the main lawn and other areas as well! We knocked down the piles from the south end up to the north end and wound up pushing the excess onto the street. I pretty much ran out of light after that and worked through the night till almost 11pm pushing the excess off. Once I pushed all the excess off I had to call it a night!



More to follow on the subsequent days... stay tuned out there if your "watching" aka reading! Lol

 

I too had overestimated how much sand I was putting down but just dragged in with a drag mat and push broom back and forth and left a lot of excess. Probably had .75 depth in most places and inch or more in the low areas. And I was worried. But it grew threw fine so don't worry if you think you have too much

 

Wow!!! Looking forward to the next few weeks of your project.

 

Here is a quick recap of the last 7 days:























































We had some nasty storms come through yesterday and it washed away some of the sand and some low spots! Fml











Ohh well!





What do yal think so far?

 

It's looking pretty good to me! I think everyone that does a big sanding project has some wash out so I wouldn't worry about that. Cool looking drag. Was it heavy enough? It's looks a little light.

 

It's looking pretty good to me! I think everyone that does a big sanding project has some wash out so I wouldn't worry about that. Cool looking drag. Was it heavy enough? It's looks a little light.

Thanks brother! Unfortunately the drag did not work at first! But I placed some 2x1 pine underneath and placed some concrete block on top... it helped the job but it definitely was not optimal...

 

Just threw down some T-Nex, RGS, AIR8, and Humic12! Used Mark-it-Blue to throw down the T-Nex and mix the others in a super cocktail and just sprayed and prayed! We will see what she looks like in a week or two!









Ohh yeah my 5 year old went shopping with the wife at the local dollar tree and spotted this rinky dink flamingo and told my wife that she had to get it to put it on the lawn! Lmao she said that we should put it up like the videos we watch! Lmao shout out to @Ware and @wardconnor. I may not be dominating on this forum but I sure am in my neighborhood! Lmao! MTF!!!

Ohh yeah! BM killed me today also!



Thrower Down:
T-Nex 9 oz. for 2.4k of Bermuda
RGS 6oz.
Air8 6oz.
Humic12 6oz.

Also threw her down on the box woods and bushes! Can't wait to see the results!