Hi friends - so, I did a bad thing. I planted some pumpkin and watermelon seeds early in the summer and let's just say they have done a little too well. I honestly barely expected them to sprout, yet here we are. This is the first time I've had to manage a yard in my entire adult life.
We've had tons of rain, sun, and heat, and I guess it's all been perfect to basically produce a rainforest in the back yard of our rental. We hired out a huge lawn care undertaking at the beginning of summer, where they ripped out everything and we had a nice, barren strip to hang out in, but boy has it bounced back. It's not just my plants - other stuff that came from our neighbors on both sides have exploded, too. All kinds of vines, bushes overhead, morning glories, baby trees, mushrooms, tall weeds (Indian tobacco?), and some fun wildlife (a groundhog and a raccoon both seem to live under my neighbor's deck in a sort of Odd Couple arrangement, and crawl through a hole in the fence to explore the pumpkins). I think we now have a cricket colony. Nature has taken over within the last month. And we don't have a big yard. We just don't go out there anymore.
Anyway, enough backstory... I've tried to keep up with it borrowing lawn mowers and weed eaters from neighbors but I think I need to pony up and buy my own equipment in order to really manage. I want to keep it minimal though, with renting and all. What would you recommend? Maybe just a cheap electric weed eater? We're only going to be here for another couple of months.
Things we've found under the house already: rake, shovel, manual hole boring thing.
I think some of the stuff I just need to rip up by hand like the vines on the fence... Earlier in the summer I got desperate and used garden clippers on the tall grass. I get reallyyyy itchy out there though. Not sure how to combat the itch.
