A blog about gardening and lawn care.

This is our watering system. The sprinkler is “Triple Arm Sprinkler” made by Takagi. It’s probably the most common product in DIY stores. The 4 sprinklers can cover the entire lawn our home. Because watering 4 sprinklers at the same …

There remain some photos of lawn tools which I took before, so I will show them. In the left is an aluminum rake. I bought it from a local DIY store. It’s indispensable for leveling unevenness with a large amount …

The weather is good and the sky is beautifully clear, though it is a little chilly. But it is not about lawn care today. I am preparing Fuyu-gakoi (winter covering) for the conifer and ash in the entrance. We live …

This is today’s lawn on October 31, 2015. Though it is gradually getting brown depending on the place, It is inevitable, because it’s already November tomorrow. In the schedule, the warm season grasses such as Korai-Shiba (Zoysiagrass), including TM-9, do …

This is Ryobi pole clipper PAB-1610, which was purchased in July 2010. (A successor model, PAB-1620 has been released, today.) Its duty is to trim where Ryobi LM-2800, which is in charge of trimming edge, can’t cut. That means, in …

I cut the seed stalks of TM9 in the early morning on Saturday. Though I say cutting seed stalk, the actual procedure is completely same as the usual lawn mowing. There are no differences. The mower is Baroness LM12MH. Shear …

When I saw the lawn for the first time in several days, it looks somewhat purple. There appear seed stalks of TM9 in a close view. TM9 sprouts seed stalk like this several times in a year. I didn’t see …

The photo is in the early morning on October 16, 2015. The morning temperature is low and morning dew falls on the lawn these days. I see mycelia of Pythium on early morning lawn these several days. What looks like …

This is our fourth mower, Ryobi reel-type lawn mower LM-2800. It came to our home on August 26, 2015. It is a universal machine, which can perform everything such as mowing, dethatching, vertical cutting (root cutting), as I introduced in …

This is the third mower, our current main mowing machine, Baroness push electric lawn mower, LM12MH. I purchased it in July 2015. The spinning blade is a reel type six-blade, and the front roller is a grooved roller (optional) which …

This is our second lawn mower, Husqvarna NovoLette 540N manual lawn mower, which I introduced once before. It came to our house in June 2011, and worked as a main mowing machine until July 2015 when Baroness came. This is …

This year’s lawn care had almost finished with the last mowing on October 10. I storaged our lawn equipment before the off-season and took their photos together. So I will exhibit our home lawn equipment. To begin with, in the …

I saw sprouts of Yabu-Garashi (Bushkiller or Cayratia japonica) in the edge of the yard, the day before yesterday, before mowing. We usually remove weeds by hand, however, Yabu-Garashi appears again and again in the same place after manual weeding. …

There are no good photos in the 4th year, in 2013. This is March 30, 2013. Nearby in the photo are weeds, but not lawn yard yet. The lawn in distance is in brawn color, because we burned the lawn …

It is the 3rd year. The backyard lawn in 2012. The lawn is standard Korai-Shiba, same as the prior year, 2011. The mowing height is also same (28 to 38 mm), however, the lawn is more flat and beautiful than …

I am showing my old photos. This is August 22, 2011. The 2nd year after planting lawn. The lawn was standard Korai-Shiba before it was replaced to TM9. Behind the yard was a rice field, yet. I used to like …

I mowed my lawn. The mowing height was 8 mm, the same as the last time. The photo was taken in the midst of the mowing. The left side is already mown, while the right side is not yet. Mowing …

I’ve just started a blog of lawn. We built our new home and planted Korai-Shiba (Zoysiagrass, a Japanese lawn grass) in our backyard in 2010, and then replaced it to a low-maintenance Korai-Shiba, TM9, in 2013. The photo is my …