We've been in 78+° days for over a month now. I'm on week 4 of violating the Geneva Convention with the chemical warfare in my yard. Big box kill'em all bug spray every other week, weed/grass spray on the alternating weeks. If that doesn't work we've got an old school pest control store that sells the good shit if you're willing to pay the price and keep quiet; I'm pretty sure they spray you in the face with DDT if you mention beneficial insects or organic earth friendly controls. Mostly battling ants, they're the biggest problem anyone in our hood has; but it's the swamp, all the bugs we have are big and bite. So I'm just spraying a different bottle every alternating week.
Throw on my respirator, some gloves and hike the backpack sprayer and dump 15 gallons of sludge on the yards. If I can get all the bugs, weeds, grass, and whatnot killed int he backyard this summer, I'm strongly considering a few inches depth of weed cloth and one of the perrenial varieties of synthetic turf. I'm done mowing the back yard, so I'll just kill it all and put a carpet down. If anyone complains I'll just tell them I planted microplastic seeds as it's the only thing I could get to grow in our 21st century, nuclear phosphate runoff, polluted swamp.
