Nice Lawn?
I always *love* when people come by my house trying to sell me things that I don’t need or want (even when there’s supposedly no soliciting in our neighborhood). But this afternoon I had grin when a guy was trying to “give” me something if I allowed him to put up a sign in my front yard to advertise to my neighbors since my yard was well kept. Though I didn’t say it, I was thinking, “You should have come by a few hours ago.”
You see, I had just given my “grass” its biweekly (at best) scalping (it is no secret that I hate mowing my hill with a push mower). When my lawn is cut, it does look OK if you don’t actually walk on it or look too closely, but if you look at it at all you’ll notice that it is nothing but a bunch of weeds with a few pieces of grass scattered about. It has been that way ever since we bought the house five years ago. I’ve tried seeding, fertilizing and watering with no luck and I’m at the point of just wanting to till it all up and start anew with some decent soil and grass seed.
Anyway, I sent the guy away (apparently to his amazement) and I spared him my smart aleck remarks since I wasn’t really in the mood to push any buttons today.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
If you till the soil … the weeds will come back and the grass will die. I suggest using something like round-up on the whole yard… BTW, our yard has been in the same shape since 2001 when we moved in. I’d like to just shave off the top layer and put new soil down. An old tree (now gone) has created a soil swell on one side of the front yard… so it dosen’t help the landscape. My lovely wife takes a reel mower to it once a week while I handle the back yard with a gas mower. The time it took to write this entry is about the amount of time I have dedicated thoughts about our front yard. Hopefully I’ll become a master gardener some day… and this all will change.