A blog about gardening and lawn care.

Conifers nad ash on March 27th, 2016, early in the morning. The lawn on the same day. Though it is not enough yet, the green gradually appears and the sign of the growth is perceived. Wood sorrels have appeared together …

Lawn on March 26th, 2016, at 6 o’clock in the early morning before staring the work. Vertical cutting, at first. Attache a root cutting blade on Ryobi LM-2800, and set the cutting height in the lowest of 5 mm. In …

Baroness’s fertilizer (2 bags) and Idecompo, which I had ordered, has arrived. The soil will also arrive tomorrow in the schedule. I am planning thatching + vertical cutting, topsoiling, and Idecompo for this weekend.

This is lawn on March 21st. I removed weeds first. Pulling with Nukerunn-desu Mini. I took out wastepaper basket in the living room instead of bucket and took grasses for two baskets. There still remain some, but it’s OK because …

I removed the winter covering. It’s Maech 21st today. It won’t snow any longer, as expected. It’s got neat.

The lawn has got green gradually, despite I still can’t even burn the lawn. Earthworms have also came out. Weeds have also got increased. Pythium has also appeared. Too bad.

Weeds are getting increased.

It’s sleeting this morning despite it’s March 15th.

It was the cloudy sky in this morning. Though the sun came out around noon, I have to work from 1 o’clock afternoon. I couldn’t burn the lawn today either.

It’s going to be almost sunny for three days from tomorrow. The highest temperature on Saturday is 18 degrees Celsius. Can I burn the lawn???

It’s March 1st, 2016. The lawn is completely under the snow again, because of the continuous snow for these 2 days. Conifers and ash in the entrance are also under the snow.

The photo is the lawn in the morning on February 25th, 2016. The snow accumulated on the whole surface again last night. But, because it was relatively good weather in the daytime, the snow melted in a short time and …

The photo is the Lawn on February 18th, 2016. The snow, which accumulated this week again, is disappearing. This is the lawn today, on February 20th, 2016. The snow’s disappeared but it’s raining a little. The weekly weather forecast says …

Backyard lawn on February 13th, 2016. It’s been a good weather with no rain or snow for these several days. Today’s weather forecast is cloudy and then rain. I tried to burn lawn before rain falls. This is a “small …

The photo is in the morning on February 11th, 2006. Needle ice formed around a rainwater pit in the corner of the lawn yard. I took photos because it was an excellent needle ice. Backyard lawn. The snow, which fell …

It snowed again, on February 7th, 2016.

We drove to Lakeshore in Montreal. The place is around here. In front is Lake Saint-Louis. Though it is named Lake Saint-Louis, it is a widening of the St. Lawrence River. After seeing this, I do not understand the difference …

It snowed in the first half of this week, but the snow’s gone because it rained in the last half. Lawn is completely in brown because of the winter dormancy. Such a bronw lawn make me desire “shiba-yaki”, which means …

It rained yesterday and the snow fell last week has almost gone. This is last week, on January 24th. This is today, on January 30th. It’s a big difference. These are conifers and ash in the entrance. The above is …

Backyard lawn, and conifers and ash in the entrance in this morning. The snow is blowing since last night. Though the snow is about 10 cm depth yet, it seems a snowstorm still continues today.

I changed this site “Backyard Lawn” into a bilingual site in January 2016. I will explain the process. The WordPress is used for creating this blog. The theme is “Stinger5”. The actual server of this blog is XSERVER, but the …

Snow has fallen this week. Above photo is January 19th, when the snow started to fall. It’s probably 2 to 3 cm yet. This is the next day, January 20th. Some dozen centimeters of snow have accumulated. Though this is …

It’s about Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec, this time. The photo is the Château Frontenac, the landmark hotel in Quebec City, which was taken from a ferry across the St. Lawrence River. It’s 2 to 3 …

Happy New Year. I wish you all the best for this year. But, it’s already January 10 today. I was so busy for creating this bilingual site, that I couldn’t post a new article on New Year breaks. Please click …

This is the backyard lawn today, in December 20, 2015. Though it looks a little green this side, it’s completely brown this side. A green place, and a brown place, The same TM9 in the same yard seem to show …

This is a lawn in Public Garden in Boston. There are many bronze statues in this park. The statue in the photo is “Learning”, which is as expected of the capital of learning Boston (though I don’t know why he’s …

This time, it’s lawn in Angrignon Park (Parc Angrignon) in Montreal. Angrignon Park is located here. Though we used to go there by car, it’s just in front of the Angrignon station, the end of the Green Line, if we …

It’s lawn in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. In the photo is a lawn in front of the Parliament of Canada located at Parliament Hill. Who play catch are our eldest and second sons. Though the Parliament is a …

This is a lawn in Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada. The photo is October 8, 2007. We went to see the autumn foliage this day. The red autumn leaves are beautiful. The best sightseeing places on the east of Canada are …

The backyard lawn yesterday, on December 12, 2015. It’s turning brown in winter dormancy. It still keeps some green in this view. The degree of winter dormancy is different depending on the place. The weed in the photo was found …

The photo is Saint Joseph’s Oratory (Oratoire St-Joseph) in Montreal. It is October 12, 2008, as same as the post in the other day. The location is in the above map. The view from the oratory. The lawn keeps nice …

We purchased Baroness push electric lawn mower, LM12MH in July 2015. Though I was interested in it since before, 178,200 yen inclusive of tax (as of Dec 2015) was too expensive. In addition, because I was satisfied the previous mowers, …

This is a lawn in a park which was located in Notre-Dame-de-Grace (NDG) district in Montreal. Though I don’t remember the exact location, the park is probably located in around this area. There were a lot of parks in Montreal. …

This is a lawn in Prince Edward Island (PEI). Our family traveled there in June 2009. (In the photo is my wife.) The above photo is home of “Anne of Green Gables”. The first photo is also taken in front …

As I wrote before, we built our new home and planted Korai-Shiba (Zoysiagrass) in our backyard in 2010 and then replaced it to a low-maintenance Korai-Shiba, TM9, in 2013. Though it is a personal experience, I will write the reason …

Though I introduced the lawn in Melbourne the other day, I would like to introduce lawn in other places too. The photo is lawn in the village of Percé. I took the photo in September 2009. Percé is a small …

This is the lawn on November 23, 2015. It’s faded and creates a wintry impression depending on the place. Mycelia of Pythium are found in places, but I will leave them without doing anything this time. Mushrooms are also found …

I couldn’t update my blog for about 3 weeks. I will post for it together. I’ve been to Melbourne in Australia from November 19 to 22. From Narita to Melbourne via Sydney. It is about 10 hours from Narita to …

It is November 8, 2015. The lawn has become purple again like the other day. There appear seed stalks of TM9. And I cut them again, unavoidably. It is November 8, 2015. The lawn has become purple again like the …

I finished conifer’s Fuyu-gakoi (winter covering) which was in the middle by wrapping net on Sunday, October 8. (I also changed my tires to the studless tires on the same day.) I visited several DIY stores and looked for the …