[speaker001:] so how's your lawn and garden work
[speaker002:] well today it's uh we're not doing much with it because it's kind of raining outside but or snowing actually uh
[speaker001:] yeah I understand that it actually is snowing cold and wet
[speaker002:] but um actually my husband is in the other room um planning a um organic garden or organic treatment um
[speaker001:] oh is he okay
[speaker002:] yeah do you do a lot of lawn work
[speaker001:] not so much anymore I'm I'm getting older I'm fifty two now so I've just uh I've sort of slowed down you know we use this rather than do it ourselves as far as fertilizing I utilize a service and I guess they do a an okay jype of job
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh and I've let this little kid that lives behind us cut our grass just a little bit this past year I think I'm gonna let him do it all this year just I work uh I'm out of town quite a bit and I come home and seems like every Friday that's what I have to face on Saturday is doing my lawn so I just stopped doing that
[speaker002:] well there was a time when my husband had had had traveled a lot and um so we had a service for the first year that we were in our house and the lawn looked great um now that that he's home we don't um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] we haven't been treating it as well you know using fertilizer and stuff or I guess the lawn looks okay it's just that we don't we still have a problem with weeds
[speaker001:] oh I understand yeah we yeah we have a problem about every other year with weeds it it appears that every other year a service can get rid of them and uh but just just about every other year they come back
[speaker002:] and I think maybe they uh spread some because they're putting it down
[speaker001:] it's a constant battle I tell you
[speaker002:] but the thing that he is wanting to try this year is um using some organic treatments and we're not real naturalists or anything but um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] what we have heard is that the amount of fertilizer that we put on our lawns is about the same amount that a farmer would put on a whole entire crop
[speaker001:] I understand
[speaker002:] and uh I have a cold so I'm having a hard time
[speaker001:] I do too so I'm have the same problem
[speaker002:] um but uh um so he wants to try doing some you know different kind of stuff I don't really know what it involves or um um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] at this point in time I enjoyed having the service when we did um the only problem was they never told us when they were coming and then you find a note on your door that says water within two to three days and it was never uh right right but uh
[speaker001:] right right with a thirty five dollar bill well well we didn't use one year before last a service because we we had weeds like two years in a row and you know when you when you have a service you don't expect that so we stopped and I sort of did it myself year before last then this last summer I'd went back to a service and then went but went to a new service and they appear to have be doing a better job
[speaker002:] what service did you use
[speaker001:] Lawn Doctor
[speaker002:] Lawn Doctor
[speaker001:] and we used to use one in Plano and we switched to one that's more local
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] one of our friends bought the one in Plano they just didn't uh didn't do that good a job on our lawn so we changed services
[speaker002:] yeah we tried using Chem Lawn but um our problem is our front yard is completely different from the backyard
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and um I think they just use the same stuff on everything because we've got a mixture our front yard is um all Bermuda what's not weeds
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and the backyard is a mixture of Saint Augustine Bermuda and some type of uh winter grass that stays green all all winter
[speaker001:] right either rye or something
[speaker002:] yeah something like that it's real clumpy and
[speaker001:] yeah you can see I have we have a lot of trees in our yard so it's a it's you know during the summer it's bare under the trees so I've pratted a lot planted a lot of rye winter rye to grow because that will grow in the summertime under trees it's more of a shade it's a better shade grass so now as as cold as it is out there and as rainy as it is we have you can see where we planted all the green grass but as it's in the summer because that's that's the only green area in our lawn
[speaker002:] yeah oh do you do you ever do you ever double sod or um whatever
[speaker001:] all of our Bermuda's all brown we have on the side yard few years back right
[speaker002:] you know where they mix the seed
[speaker001:] I'm always uh you know sometimes I'm sometimes I'm I'm over at Home Depot I'll just a grab a grass a thing of of grass seed and put it in the old spreader and just spread it real quick or throw it out in the areas where I think I need it but overall I guess we have a pretty good stand of grass they say in the summertime the hotter it is the better the Bermuda grows and course that supposedly quote will crowd out the weeds and everything so
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I think that's our problem is that we we just need to get it fertilized really good so that we can get the grass grass growing rather than the weeds
[speaker001:] so I just  right how about how about flowers you have you have nice flowers in your front yard
[speaker002:] um in the front yard not so much we have a lot