Hurray! The back lawn is starting to look less like a mud pit and more like there is something growing. Three days ago the first shoots started coming up. In a few weeks we will add some more grass seed.
Not a lot of progress in terms of the front lawn. We haent seen any growth yet. We have also not been watering it as dilligently as the back lawn. We will have to increase our lawn watering and get this show on the road before the real summer hits and it gets too hot.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Lawn Care
This weekend my husband and I ripped out the 'lawn' at the back of the house. Creeping violet had completely taken over what was left of an already crummy lawn, and since this is the year of big renovations, we decided to rip up the creepie crawlies and replace it with grass seed. We are expecting perfect weather for germination this week, now all we need to do is keep it watered. The same goes for the front yard, it hasnt rained in a couple of days and so I should make sure it will get some sprinkler action tomorrow.
Next project will be taming the rest of the yard. We are planning on getting a whole bunch of mulch, ripping out the plants we really dont want, and mulching over top. Then moving the mulch where ever we want to add plants. I think it could work, as long as we start early. Even if it is just for a couple of years to stay on top of the weeds and the invasive creeping plants we have in (and also outside of) our flowerbeds
Next project will be taming the rest of the yard. We are planning on getting a whole bunch of mulch, ripping out the plants we really dont want, and mulching over top. Then moving the mulch where ever we want to add plants. I think it could work, as long as we start early. Even if it is just for a couple of years to stay on top of the weeds and the invasive creeping plants we have in (and also outside of) our flowerbeds
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Spring clean up
Luckily for us spring started early this year. We already had some snow drops two weeks ago and last week I saw our first spring corcuses. Because of the lovely weather, last weekend we did a little spring clean up. I racked most of the front yard and flowerbeds, and got most of the old leaves out and spread them out between our two compost bins. And a couple of gardening bags. Since the bare spots in our lawn from last year where still definetly there, we decided we should start the seed earlier this year in the hope that more of a root system would be established by the time the heat of summer started. A therefore went ahead and put down our first bag of grass seed. In a couple of weeks we will go ahead and put the next seeds down in hopes that we wont have to resort to all new sod. We are also thinking of starting this in the backyard, maybe even today. We will see what today brings first though. We have big plans for the garden this year. We want to make it into what we think it can and should be, now the wedding is over we should have more time on our hands, so stay tuned.
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