Wednesday saw the start of the big project as was mentioned in an earlier entry.. I was getting tired of the weeds taking over the front lawn and tried weed spray, weed eater and just about everything except the most drastic turn it over and start the lawn again.. I wanted to do this for a while now and this years craptastic lawn gave the excuse to try it.. I tried on about the same area a few years ago but didn't do it justice (that and I didn't have the tiller to do this with).. Tilling was tricky at best but got done in a few hours tilling one direction then the opposite.. Then the raking started.. And rake.. and rake.. and rake.. Finally I gave up.. It more than likely isn't even close to level, but it was done.. (Screw it I'm done).. Took the next day off for back reasons then got the grass planted Friday.. The settings didn't show our spreader so I went with what I thought sounded close and got the grass seed set.. 600 square feet is a lot smaller than I thought.. but when you think the dimensions are 20 feet by 30 feet that just blew me away.. The bag of grass I got was a fall mixture (guaranteed to grow maybe they shouldn't say such things when an idiot like me are at the controls it's wreck proof.... wanna BET).. Got the drip irrigation heads set and now for the next two or three weeks we see how good of an idea this was.. I've never planted in September before.. My cutoff date was always August 15 at the latest.. It fact it was the tenth or eleventh before this year.. This has been a different year though.. So the drip irrigation took the place of the atomizer sprinkler mostly because while the atomizer is good, it can water heavy (something I didn't realize until recent use of it).. The drip system delivers a very light watering and is perfect for this project.. So here it is two days into waiting for the gras to come up.. I'll get more seed for the areas that didn't get seed Friday.. Keep an eye on this entry, I will add updates as we progress..
Badge Henry
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