I'm really tired of my lawn/mower

[jane6672]

I know this is a boring subject, so I will tell you a story in pictures.

We got a reel mower:

1) My husband has hideous grass allergies

2) It is low maintenance
3) Good for the lawn/environment

It works well on these accounts, but our yard is full of weedy grass, and that shit grows FAST. Way faster than the real grass.

So you mow the lawn


Only to discover that the weeds were too tall for the stupid little mower to cut.
The yard still looks like this:


So then I pull out the weedeater and have at the lawn 


But you cannot get every weed in the whole damn yard running around with a weedeater.

Our yard ends up looking like this


After an hour or two, I'm all


But the neighbor directly across from us is like the MARTHA STEWART of lawn keeping, and when he sees me out there going crazy with the weedeater (or futilely mowing), I can tell he is doing this


This guy sweeps his grass clippings out of the street after mowing. That isn't normal, right? Right??

[HiC]

We just bought a reel mower too and it makes our lawn look just like Miley Cyrus's hair. I also have to use the weedwacker(sp) to get it all even.