I love mowing my lawn. I do not bag as I was told not to. I bought a Toro Recycler four years ago and it still runs great and starts on the first pull every time.

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I also put down Scott's weed and feed and other Scott's products and a regular basis.

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I do the chemicals-fert and occasional insect control. We have a 5,000 sq foot lawn-IT IS NO BIG DEAL-once you figure out what to do when.
We too are former northerners. I've attended several of the cooperative extension talks about lawn care etc. Best quote from one of the speakers was if you are from the north forget everything you thought you knew. The southern grasses are completely different. You have either empire zoysia or St Augustine. You had a six month growing season and here it is ten months.
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Like anything else there will be many different opinions.
You garage or tool shed will not be temperature controlled.
Right now I will guess my garage is over 100. Batteries are quickly destroyed at that heat and they are expensive to replace. For a gas engine. If you have an older mower like a briggs and stratton side valve, the entire lubrication of the engine is a simple spoon to splash the oil. On a hill such as we all have between houses the lubrication is at best marginal. The newer engines on better mowers will have a pressure lube system similar to an automobile.

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I too take care of our yard. I never let it become such a chore that I resent doing it. Trimming the shrubs, edgin or mowing I learned to do it at my own pace, drink lots of water and relax.

This is nonsense. Unless you are spending significant amounts of time at an extreme angle, and then the pickup for pump based lubrication system may be out of the oil, it doesn't matter.

I've lived in The Villages for 16 years and less than 5% of the residents mow their own lawns. For about $55 per month you can hire any one of dozens of reputable lawn service folks.

I have no idea if your number is accurate for all of TV, but it's not even close on my street. I and most of my immediate neighbors do our own lawns. Has little to do with cost, at least for me.

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We ripped out our lawn, covered the yard in gravel, and treated with Agent Orange.
Never had to touch it since, and we can sit and watch the five legged racoons play in the evenings!

I mow my own lawn. The people you hire don't clean their mowers between yards and this can be a source of weeds, insects, and fungal diseases that will affect your own lawn. They also may not sharpen their mower blades that often. Dull blades shred the grass instead of cutting it cleanly and this can allow the entrance of disease organisms. The lawn crews mow lawns at whatever length they choose rather than following University of Florida/IFAS recommendations. For example, zoysia should be mowed at 2 to 2.5 inches. The blades should be sharpened, if you do your own lawn, two to three times a season. I mulch my grass most of the time except early in the year when I scalp the lawn to remove some of the dead grass.

I love mowing my own lawn. I also do all my own yard work. Keeps me in great shape and I don't need to go to a gym.It looks like a green carpet and sets off all my planting beds very nicely. Obviously it is one of my hobbies!

thats what I say also. as long as i mow before it gets too high mulching works fine. But when you let it get to high then mulching doesn't work and bogs down on the turn....but I never bag.....much to much work.....I just blow the piles around until there gone.....the lazy way....

we spent the extra to get the self propelled motor. I just start it up, aim and hold on...it does the rest.

great exercise.....and like he said.....use the cash for other things....

Hi do you have a phone number for MiCo if so email it to us. pnb900@msn.com THANK YOU,

You obviously didn't read my post carefully enough. I said, "I enjoy mowing MY lawn.

As i said
 

You may know motorcycles but, THERE IS NO PICKUP for the oil pump on older lawn mowers as THERE IS NO OIL PUMP.
As I said it is nothing more than a spoon to splash oil.

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