Comments on: Cheapskate’s landscaping

By: funny

funny — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:30:14 +0000

HOLY mackerel! This is an old post to still be attracting readers!!

Fact is…I spent almost 20 grand on the landscaping for this house. If that’s cheap, it’s ’cause I’ve never made it into the “right” social class.

By: Landscaping Estimates

Landscaping Estimates — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:38:59 +0000

You guys are a bunch of cheapskates

Kidding!

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:32:47 +0000

Great idea! I shud’ve thought of it: That actually is the premise of Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods. The protagonist (or whatever he is…) wakes from a stupor and finds all his wife’s many houseplants fried and his wife gone, along with their canoe. He remembers that he took a pot of boiling water and poured it over the plants, but he does NOT remember (so he tells us) doing anything to the wife. The cops, of course, think he offed her as well as her plants.

This would go a long way toward controlling the milkweed, dandelions, spurge, filaree, bermudagrass, and suchlike in the desert landscaping. I’m going to try it this very morning!

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:56:04 +0000

Another cheap way to get rid of the weeds is boiling water. My dh drinks hot tea every day, year round. So after he pours the water for his tea, he takes the kettle outside & pours it over any weeds in the sidewalks & walkways. Within a few days, the weed is burned up & gone. All the money we spent to kill them is the energy we used to boil the water. Once you’ve cleaned the weeds out, doing this occasionally as you see them sprout, will keep the walkways clear.

I really like the river rocks. Great tip.

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By: Kellie @ Greenhab

Kellie @ Greenhab — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:55:33 +0000

Looks great – I can’t wait for warm weather so I can work on my yard. Right now it’s just a blanket of snow.

By: kathy

kathy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:40:49 +0000

I wish I’d known. I have a pile of landscaping rocks in the backyard left over from our front yard landscaping. We could have arranged a visit and a hand off for the cost of the drive.

By: SimplyForties

SimplyForties — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:19:35 +0000

Well I’m exhausted just thinking about all the work this task involved! It really looks great! You sure nailed Bermuda grass. I have a Bermuda grass lawn and, as a lawn, it’s great. In the garden, not so much!

By: Chance

Chance — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:11:21 +0000

The stones look really sharp! The price was certainly right. I too get pleasure from solving problems frugally or free. Bermuda grass is hard to get rid of, so good luck with that — a small goat might do the trick, I’m not sure Roundup will have enough force. Nice project, thanks for sharing it.