Great start, really looks smooth and level!

 

Great start, really looks smooth and level!

+1

 

Real smooth and clean cut! Nice. What's your mowing schedule for now? Let her grow for a bit?!

 

Looking good already Ware, tan, green or tan-greenish!

 

Looks great and you can already see quite a bit of green. It looks like the worms are loving it too!

 

Thanks guys. I did a major leveling project last spring, so I am enjoying a much smoother lawn. I plan to start the season around 0.375" and then see where it goes. I'd like to maintain at 0.500" or less all season, but will ultimately settle for anything under the max HOC of my reel mower. :lol:

Looks great and you can already see quite a bit of green. It looks like the worms are loving it too!

Funny you mention the worms... I think the birds might be loving it more. Word got around quick that it's easy to find worms in 0.350" bermuda.

 

Thanks guys. I did a major leveling project last spring, so I am enjoying a much smoother lawn. I plan to start the season around 0.375" and then see where it goes. I'd like to maintain at 0.500" or less all season, but will ultimately settle for anything under the max HOC of my reel mower. :lol:

Looks great and you can already see quite a bit of green. It looks like the worms are loving it too!

Funny you mention the worms... I think the birds might be loving it more. Word got around quick that it's easy to find worms in 0.350" bermuda.

Just remember, they are eating your worms and likely depositing weed seeds. My heaviest infestations of Poa is always under the trees.

 

One of my absolute favorite times to be on my lawn is after dark, with the patio lights on and a little light from the street. The imperfections seem to melt away and it looks like carpet. I like to walk around on it with a good cigar and just relax. It's hard to capture, but I snapped this photo a little bit ago.

HOC is currently 0.350" and I'm about 75% green. It's not at 100% fill yet - I did an aggressive verticut (in 2 directions) a few weeks ago.

 

Wow, that does look awesome! I love the whole setup there.

 

Looking good Ware. Look forward to more updates!

 

Wow Your back lawn looks awesome! Great pic!

 

Looks great! I feel the same way early morning when there is still dew on the lawn and it's nice and quiet out. Great time to lawn look at low grass :thumbup:

 

Looks great! I feel the same way early morning when there is still dew on the lawn and it's nice and quiet out. Great time to lawn look at low grass :thumbup:

+1. To me there is nothing more relaxing than waking up early on the weekend and drinking coffee and watching the sprinklers water a short cut lawn.

Another advantage to cutting short is you can see all the imperfections.

 

I got a cut in this afternoon ahead of the rain - you can see it in the sky in the last photo. HOC is 0.350". Green-up has stalled a little, but no complaints.

​

 

Looking Great!

 

Looking Great!

Especially that strip between you and you neighbor :lol:

 

Nice!!!

 

Looking Great!

Especially that strip between you and you neighbor :lol:

So here's the story on that... I was mowing 2 passes on the outside of my sidewalk (down and back), but when I located my property pins for the upcoming irrigation project, I was basically cutting about a pass and a half over onto their side. They don't live here (I actually mow their lawn), so it's cool, but I decided I should stop reel mowing that extra pass.

​

 

Awesome. That also means that ugly manhole isn't on your property!

 

nice looking lawn....lots of hard work evident in the pics!

 

Just adding this photo here... HOC is 1/2".

 

Looks great Ware!

JB

 

Still waiting on the back yard to recover. To its credit, it looked like a beach 2.5 weeks ago...

 

Still waiting on the back yard to recover. To its credit, it looked like a beach 2.5 weeks ago...

Yeah it was heavy back there. It's coming along nicely though!

 

Reviving this thread from page 5...

I'm still maintaining at 1/2". The irrigation trenches are all finally almost filled in. We're having a party at the house next weekend, but after that I plan to level up the trenches again with sand. I expect a quicker recovery because the Bermuda will just need to grow up through the sand this time - versus across the bare trenches.

Everything is finally getting back to where I want it to be... which means I need to start thinking about what my next project will be. :lol: