Weekend Update
Well, our plan to "divide and conquer" with my seeding of the bare spots in the front yard, and Janice continuing with painting chores got a bit derailed this weekend.
Janice focused on catching up with laundry chores and doing some straightening up of the house on Saturday, while I went out to pick up a few things at the local market that we needed. While I was there, they had some nice mums on sale - 3 for $16.99 - so I picked out six of the nicest ones (in my favorite colors for fall ... burgundy and gold).
Late Saturday afternoon, I started removing some of the dead grass and thatch from the front yard. What a job. In retrospect, if I had some way of getting it here, I should have rented a power thatcher.
Sunday, we were supposed to get showers here (which never exactly materialized) so I went out pretty early to continue on the yard. Janice did a run over to Home Depot for more grass seed - 21 pounds of it, to be exact - while I worked on more bare spots. Once she got home, she helped with the bare spots so we could get it all done before dark.
All told, we removed 8 heaping wheelbarrows full of thatch and dead grass (note: it's nice having the wetlands on the left side of the house). We also uncovered the source of a few of our bare spots not attributable to dollar spot. I found a few sections where we had some grubs, so next year I will have to remember to put down some insect control to prevent that from reoccuring.
We also uncovered some of the biggest, longest, plumpest earthworms I have ever seen. There were several of them that were at least 10 inches long! I hope we're not sitting on a uranium deposit or something that has made them mutate into these giants. Every now and then, Janice would uncover one and let out a yelp when she raked it onto her sandaled feet.
Anyway, I am pleased to report that the front lawn got a good heavy overseeding before dark, and with any help from Mother Nature, should be back on its way to looking fuller and more evenly grassy. I saved a little of the seed to do repairs to the back yard near the basement walk-out door where we're having the new screen door put on. I didn't want to overseed that thin area until the contractor finished up with his work.
Next up for yard work - planting the mums.
Janice focused on catching up with laundry chores and doing some straightening up of the house on Saturday, while I went out to pick up a few things at the local market that we needed. While I was there, they had some nice mums on sale - 3 for $16.99 - so I picked out six of the nicest ones (in my favorite colors for fall ... burgundy and gold).
Late Saturday afternoon, I started removing some of the dead grass and thatch from the front yard. What a job. In retrospect, if I had some way of getting it here, I should have rented a power thatcher.
Sunday, we were supposed to get showers here (which never exactly materialized) so I went out pretty early to continue on the yard. Janice did a run over to Home Depot for more grass seed - 21 pounds of it, to be exact - while I worked on more bare spots. Once she got home, she helped with the bare spots so we could get it all done before dark.
All told, we removed 8 heaping wheelbarrows full of thatch and dead grass (note: it's nice having the wetlands on the left side of the house). We also uncovered the source of a few of our bare spots not attributable to dollar spot. I found a few sections where we had some grubs, so next year I will have to remember to put down some insect control to prevent that from reoccuring.
We also uncovered some of the biggest, longest, plumpest earthworms I have ever seen. There were several of them that were at least 10 inches long! I hope we're not sitting on a uranium deposit or something that has made them mutate into these giants. Every now and then, Janice would uncover one and let out a yelp when she raked it onto her sandaled feet.
Anyway, I am pleased to report that the front lawn got a good heavy overseeding before dark, and with any help from Mother Nature, should be back on its way to looking fuller and more evenly grassy. I saved a little of the seed to do repairs to the back yard near the basement walk-out door where we're having the new screen door put on. I didn't want to overseed that thin area until the contractor finished up with his work.
Next up for yard work - planting the mums.
posted by Lee at
9/25/2006 05:53:00 AM
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