She just handed me her old edger and said 'stop borrowing your dad's gas trimmer, you're making it look worse' and after 3 passes along the driveway I was completely sold on the simple method. Has anyone else had a neighbor correct your whole approach with one tool they already owned?
I put down a $35 can of dark slate stain on my front walkway last June, and by October it looked like someone had watered it down with milk. Has anyone else had their color completely wash out in under 6 months?
Honestly, I've been going back and forth on this for months now. Last spring I noticed some wilting on my big elm out front and panicked, so I dropped $200 on a fungicide injection treatment from a local arborist. He swore it was the only way to stop Dutch Elm disease from spreading if caught early. But then my neighbor, who's been here 40 years, said I should have just cut it down and planted a resistant variety for half the cost. Now it's six months later, the tree looks fine so far, but I keep wondering if I just got lucky or if that treatment actually did something. Has anyone else gambled on saving an old tree instead of yanking it out? Did you feel it was worth the cost in the long run?