The solar yard lighting dilemma
4So, for those of you who both have solar lights lining your various sidewalks and pathways AND have to regularly mow your lawn…what do you do? Do you just pull up all the lights, mow, then put them back? Do you mow around them and use a weed whacker near the lights? Something else? I’ve dealt with this issue and have yet to find an easy solution, so I find myself just removing the lights every time I have to cut the grass, which is tedious.
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Mine aren’t in grass
@haydesigner I do have lights set back from the actual yard, so those don’t have to be pulled up to mow, but I really like the way the lights look that I have lining my front walkway…those are the ones that must be removed from the mower’s path.
The solar lights I have are in mulch. With some edging stuff where the mulch and grass meet. So I mow as close as I can to it, then his any little bits with the weed eater. Of course weeds grow up through the mulch as well, so I have to hit that with a weed eater or pull them out and spray.
Then I also have motion sensor solar lights on the fence. It makes it easy to do stuff in the dark or find where the dog is roaming.
@remo28 Right, I also have a set of lights behind the grass border that don’t require relocating for mowing. The ones that get moved are along the edge of the front walk, which cuts right through the middle of the front yard.
I put mine in big flower pots
Since we rarely have to accommodate landing aircraft, we don’t have lights in our lawn, so no issues with mowing.
@macromeh I’m not that close to the airport!
@macromeh @PooltoyWolf and I have lights on my lawnmower; does that count?
@macromeh @pmarin I always wondered why nearly every riding mower and lawn tractor has headlights, but I’ve never personally seen a walk-behind push mower with them.
I spray weed killer around the base. Just enough so that the mower will go around and I don’t have to take them down or weed eat around them.
@railek Good solution, actually!
@PooltoyWolf @railek
/image better living through chemistry
@PooltoyWolf @railek I had no idea that was a movie. Look at the people in it!
I was thinking of the phrase from 1970s Disneyland with the Tomorrowland ride sponsored by Monsanto or DuPont (it seems the phrase was from DuPont)
@pmarin @PooltoyWolf @railek
You can actually kill plants with vinegar, salt & dish soap. https://www.insider.com/guides/home/homemade-weed-killer
might have been this
cute doggie….
/image Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible dog
I have the puck solar lights and most of the stakes are destroyed because it is hard getting them out of the grass to mow. Today, I literally just rested the pucks on top of the grass and gave up. At the very least, they are easy to pick up prior to mowing.