
Get Rid of Your Lawn – Strange Ways to Save Money
July 14th, 2010 admin
Last year was the year the I finally decided I’d had enough of my lawn. The grass only grew in certain places, no matter how much we watered or which grass breeds we tried. We tried everything to get a lush, green lawn. We fertilized, tested the soil, watered, planted grass breeds indigenous to our
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danewild (Dane Wild) : Cutting grass today, hate grass... Updated : 2010-09-07T12:51:38Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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MiSsLbaby11 (CrazyL11) : Cutting the grass yay mee.. Updated : 2010-09-07T12:46:46Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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ReneeLukeski (Renee Lukeski) : @figgybean Just got ur tweet frm Sat. Yard was a MESS & we spent all morning weeding/cutting grass. Then everyone came for M's bday... Updated : 2010-09-07T12:40:51Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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pretty_blkqueen (Shydelle Harvin) : Uugggghhh its too fuckin early to be cutting some motherfuckin grass ppl still sleep #RUBBED.. Updated : 2010-09-07T12:39:56Z | Reply | View Tweet |
| russbetney (Russell Betney) : There's a guy outside lab 2.01 cutting the grass in the Pissing rain!! Why?!.. Updated : 2010-09-07T12:38:27Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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