First Fall Lawn Care

September 13, 2010

Aereated, seeded, fertilized. The summer was so hot and so dry that the lawn has seen little attention except for occasional mowing. Big Mistake, but I just can't work in the extreme heat any more. Now we have water restrictions so seeding etc. may be a mistake too.

I used one bag of seed which they say is enough to seed 5000 sq feet so it should be enough to over seed my 10K. I used 3 5K sq. ft. bags of fertilizer. We'll see how it turns out and will post some pics if the seed germinates and looks good. Otherwise,..........................

2010 Spring Activities

Spring has sprung.. I can hardly believe the work to be done. Limbs and sticks everywhere, ruts and missing grass all along the street thanks to the snow plows and neighbors that don't know how to keep their cars on the street, etc.

The solutions are fairly obvious. I've gotten all the limbs, sticks and leaves up. Also, filled in all the stuff along the street. In an effort to try to avoid the same problems another year, I've installed posts with reflectors along the street. Fertilizer and Pre emergents are down. Hopefully this will lead to lots of grass to mow. For the record, here are photo's of the street and the products that have been put down. Also, there's a photo of the new bushes by the front of the shed. They are Japanese Holly compacta.