Worst yardwork chore?

[Schmidty]

Definitely weeding.

[RPI-Fan]

Compared to a day at the office, all yardwork is a pleasure for me.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by RPI-Fan

Compared to a day at the office, all yardwork is a pleasure for me.

I'd rather spend the day at the office, than spend the day weeding.

Hell, I'd rather spend the day watching NASCAR *shudder*, than spend the day weeding.

[Eaglesfan27]

As a new home owner, I can't stand weeding either.

[lighthousekeeper]

for me it's mulching - but not just putting down mulch, but going through this ritual:

1. Deweed the whole area
2. Putting down the black plastic
3. Putting down the mulch

I've spent probably 40 hours doing this over the past two years.

[Fidatelo]

I actually enjoy weeding. My wife and I bought a second 'popper' because we'd fight over the one that we had. There is something strangely satisfying when you get a really big one to pop out all the way down from the roots, its kind of like a video game that you can play outside.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

I actually enjoy weeding. My wife and I bought a second 'popper' because we'd fight over the one that we had. There is something strangely satisfying when you get a really big one to pop out all the way down from the roots, its kind of like a video game that you can play outside.

What is this "popper" you speak of?

I just kneel, pull, and sweat.

[Lathum]

shoveling compost is no picnic

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

What is this "popper" you speak of?

I just kneel, pull, and sweat.

It's a little hand-tool with a two-pronged end that you can stick in to the ground at the base of the weed. When you press downward it 'pops' the weed out of the ground, hopefully grabbing a good chunk of the root at the same time.

Interestingly, I did a google search for 'weed popper' in hopes of providing a link to a picture, but the tool that comes up looks nothing like what I'm talking about. So perhaps its official name is something else?

[JS19]

Leaves (i sure hope thats the plural for leaf). I cant stand getting them together then getting rid of them.

[MrBug708]

DIgging ditches for sprinklers

[Mustang]

Edging..

ugh...

[gottimd]

Burying the bodies.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Edging..

ugh...

Weeding tops my list, too.

Don't know why edging gets the bad rap- I thought it was always pretty easy but we had an ancient 1970s thing with a metal blade so the only bad part of it was scraping up the cement and making an annoying noise sometimes.

The thing I dislike that was paired with it was using the weed eater. That darn fishing wire like stuff that always broke and had to be rethreaded for 2 minutes before you could start again. Aargh.

SI

[KevinNU7]

Mine has to be planting, only because my mother-in-law likes to buy plants about 50 at a time so it ends up becoming a big stressful event when I try to get them all in the ground.

[wade moore]

It's gotta be weeding/weed eating for me too.

[lighthousekeeper]

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

Mine has to be planting, only because my mother-in-law likes to buy plants about 50 at a time so it ends up becoming a big stressful event when I try to get them all in the ground.

planting definitely intimidates me - i always seem to be doing it wrong because the mortality rate is pretty high when i'm planting.

[Fidatelo]

Here's the thing I use for weeding: http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/s...&storeId=10051


It's like a wireless XBox controller for your backyard!

[KevinNU7]

Might have to pick me up one of those. Weeding is fairly minimal for me now as alot of the yard is tarped with 4 inches of mulch

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Here's the thing I use for weeding: http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/s...&storeId=10051


It's like a wireless XBox controller for your backyard!

That looks cool. Since it's only 7 bucks, I'll go down and pick up.

I won't be doing yardwork today. There are going to be record high temperatures all over the Puget Sound. It's supposed to be 88-89 here in Bellingham, and 92-94 around Seattle.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by wade moore

It's gotta be weeding/weed eating for me too.

You eat weeds? [Thinking of the bar scene in Happy Gilmore -- "I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast." "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?"]

I am not a big fan of any yardwork. I tell me wife all the time given a choice between cutting grass and shoveling snow, I'll pick snow everytime. Because, for the most part, once you are done, it's over. Grass, you know the next week you are cutting it again.

[Cringer]

Handing over the money for having it done.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Definitely weeding.

Twy the books on tape. They're handy.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

Twy the books on tape. They're handy.

Wow.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

That looks cool. Since it's only 7 bucks, I'll go down and pick up.

And given that my link was in Canadian dollars you can probably find it for about 5 bucks down there.

[Swaggs]

Raking and bagging leaves for me. Cannot stand it.

Getting an MP3 player has made all yardwork much more tolerable for me, though.

[Grammaticus]

I hate all forms of yardwork.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Here's the thing I use for weeding: http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/s...&storeId=10051


It's like a wireless XBox controller for your backyard!

and here's the thing I use for weeding:


no more bending at the waist and kneeling to get the darn dandelions...

linkie to page:
http://www.rona.ca/webapp/wcs/stores...oductId=214763


FM

[FrogMan]

dola

and weeding tops my list also, especially the weeding around the cedar hedge at the end of our yard. It's only 60 feet wide but I scrape my forearms like crazy trying to pull that darn crap from in between the trees...

FM

[cartman]

I've got some big sections of my lot that are very rocky, and I can't get a mower into them. So I have to use a high-wheel trimmer to get to those areas. That's the part that sucks the most. It's basically one whole side of my house, and the stand of trees in the back. It's probably 1/3 to 1/2 acre in all. That part takes longer than mowing the rest of the 1 1/2 acres.

With that much to mow, I don't even attempt to try and weed.

[CamEdwards]

I have five enormous oak trees in my front yard. I despise fall.

[rkmsuf]

naked hedge trimming

[Cringer]

Ok, the paying for it done was a half-joke. I do it once or twice a year. This last weekend was one of those times.

Really I hate it all though. Mainly leaves I guess. About December is when they fall here.

I do the work that is needed, but I just can't understand guys who spend a ton of time on their yard. Weeding? Never done it. Loren and I make fun of the guy across the street. He spends more time in his yard then he does with his wife from what we can tell. They have a kid on the way, I bet the kid is pushing a toy lawn mower before it is walking.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I do the work that is needed, but I just can't understand guys who spend a ton of time on their yard. Weeding? Never done it. Loren and I make fun of the guy across the street. He spends more time in his yard then he does with his wife from what we can tell. They have a kid on the way, I bet the kid is pushing a toy lawn mower before it is walking.

I'm the same way. If it wasn't for our snooty neighbors and their manicured lawns, our house and lawn would look like a overgrown Mayan temple. So we try to at least make it look decent, since we don't want be an eye-sore to them.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Cringer

Loren and I make fun of the guy across the street. He spends more time in his yard then he does with his wife from what we can tell. They have a kid on the way, I bet the kid is pushing a toy lawn mower before it is walking.

Or he's delivering milk like his real father does.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by stevew

Or he's delivering milk like his real father does.

that could be one of the oldest jokes ever written here

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

our house and lawn would look like a overgrown Mayan temple.

This happens to our yard atleast 3-4 times a year. It was for the last couple weeks until I paid my wife's uncle to cut it.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Cringer

This happens to our yard atleast 3-4 times a year. It was for the last couple weeks until I paid my wife's uncle to cut it.

practice for when you pay him to cut your beard

[primelord]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I do the work that is needed, but I just can't understand guys who spend a ton of time on their yard. Weeding? Never done it. Loren and I make fun of the guy across the street. He spends more time in his yard then he does with his wife from what we can tell. They have a kid on the way, I bet the kid is pushing a toy lawn mower before it is walking.

That guy probably can't undrestand why you spend as much time in front of the computer as you do. We all have our hobbies.

We are like the bad seed on our part of the street. We keep our yard very neat, but we tend to plant things like hostas and other plants that require little to no maintanence. Noth of our neighbors, but expecially the ones to our right spend an incredible amount of time in their yards. The ones to the right have a back yard that looks like a freakin park. On an average street our yard looks very nice. In between our two neighbors our yard looks like crap.

Raking used to be the most hated for me, but the city now has a service that comes and picks up your leaves if you leave them in a pile next to the street. So now I just break out the leaf blower and blow them all into a pile next t the street. 20 mins and I am done.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by primelord

That guy probably can't undrestand why you spend as much time in front of the computer as you do. We all have our hobbies.

We are like the bad seed on our part of the street. We keep our yard very neat, but we tend to plant things like hostas and other plants that require little to no maintanence. Noth of our neighbors, but expecially the ones to our right spend an incredible amount of time in their yards. The ones to the right have a back yard that looks like a freakin park. On an average street our yard looks very nice. In between our two neighbors our yard looks like crap.

Raking used to be the most hated for me, but the city now has a service that comes and picks up your leaves if you leave them in a pile next to the street. So now I just break out the leaf blower and blow them all into a pile next t the street. 20 mins and I am done.

what kind of crap is that. put those leaves in a bag like a man.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I do the work that is needed, but I just can't understand guys who spend a ton of time on their yard. Weeding? Never done it. Loren and I make fun of the guy across the street. He spends more time in his yard then he does with his wife from what we can tell. They have a kid on the way, I bet the kid is pushing a toy lawn mower before it is walking.

I've got a neighbor that is the same way. He is always out in his yard. No matter when I go outside, I see that guy doing something. He sweeps and vacuums his pool 3 times per day. He mows his lawn every 3 days. He does it in sections, the front on one day, two days later the back, then the front again, etc. Washes his car twice a week and actually blow dries it with a blower that has a back pack attachment. Then of course he pressure washes the driveway and sidewalk all the way around his house once every 2 weeks. It is really rather annoying to have to watch that crap EVERY time you go outside. Everyone else just works out there once maybe twice a week. I gotta live next to the freak.

[KevinNU7]

It must suck to look out the window and see a nicely kept home

WTF?

[primelord]

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

It must suck to look out the window and see a nicely kept home

WTF?

Not to mention that positive impact that nicely kept homes have on the surrounding property values.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

practice for when you pay him to cut your beard

I like that one.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I like that one.

won't like it as much when he pulls out the weed wacker to do the deed though

FM

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

It must suck to look out the window and see a nicely kept home

WTF?

You would think, but his yard / house does not look any better than the others. Hard to explain, but he leaves his riding mower and trailer parked in his side yard where it is visible all day. Doesn't want to park it in his garage. I guess that would be too dirty.

But, if your point is it could be a lot worse, sure. I like and expect my neighbors to keep a clean and well maintained yard. It is just an annoying thing to watch a person that has true obsessive compulsive behavior.

[Raiders Army]

Pulling weeds isn't nearly as bad as clearing out the rain gutters. I did that to my dad's house last year and it sucked balls.

[st.cronin]

I only have one yardwork chore, that's picking apricots off my tree. I love xeriscape.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Raiders Army

Pulling weeds isn't nearly as bad as clearing out the rain gutters. I did that to my dad's house last year and it sucked balls.

I don't mind cleaning the gutters at all. It doesn't involve constant bending and kneeling, so it's a treat compared to weeding.

[RPI-Fan]

Me or my dad are outside several hours a day on weekends and usually every week or two we mow the lawn during the week as well.

But my parents have a decent amount of land (about an acre, including heavily wooded areas surrounding their property that they have to maintain), so it never really looks incredible. But it is amazing how far it has come since they moved in 15 years ago.