That’s awesome.

Impressive!

Going hard in the paint. Late August shaming is my favorite shaming.

Great lawn, now go lift that crape myrtle. Lol

Roller what do you recommend I do. I’m not much of a tree guy. I’ve been here 2 years and haven’t touched them. Looks like maybe 3 years prior someone cropped them. Which Neil rants about on a weekly bases.

Lifting is pruning the lower 1/3 of the shrub. Looks to be about 12ft tall so prune off all lower limbs up to 4ft off the ground. DO NOT prune anything larger than about 1 inch diameter, just smaller diameter shoots.

What Neil is speaking of is crape murder. That is where they top the crape myrtle back to the main trunk limbs. Not good and looks horrible.

Thanks Roller! I’ll do that.

Did someone say crape murder?

Just moved to a new house, previous owners might have watered twice in 10 years. Besides water what step/s can I take to up my game and shame my new neighbors?

What kind of grass do you have? If you have just moved in and haven't applied any fertilizer yet it would be a great time to have a soil test done. We're not too far from grass getting ready to shut the season and let it go into dormancy. As far north as you are you are ahead of us in that regard. You could roll with just getting some pre emergent down immediately and then again late winter. I'll need to look into you areas best timing for pre emergent. But with a soil test now you can come up with a really good game plan going into spring.

Follow up question. When should I do this trimming?

Anytime they have shoots springing up from below. Overall trimming is in the late fall/winter. Sorry crepe murder.

Hey Derek. Are you in the Southern Lawn Syndicates group on Fakebook?

I'm not. I don't have a facebook account. is the SLS all about line domination?