seriouS frustratioN..

What's the difference between this picture here above and the picture below???

Aside from being kinda blurry from being taken by the photographer while being just a little pissed off...  there is a difference.. The picture above is sparse, was taken a couple weeks ago.. the picture below was taken today after mowing.. Lets get another view..

Is this better??? Less blur, yes it is better.. What can we see here??  What did I see??  Why is it important that I took these pictures of the patch that was reseeded a few weeks ago??  Look closely.. Is there a dead body in there??  Nope.. It took me three weeks to grow this.. It's filled in nicely wouldn't you say??   No??  Well why not??    That's right..  If you see what I see you know exactly why the first picture of the now time period is blurry and why I was pissed at it..  What I was trying to rid the lawn of is right there looking healthy and strong..  WEEDS...  Holy shit weeds..  Not just a few.. It looks like I planted them.. I had to have planted them this way, how else could you explain them looking so good???    This was Scott's brand contractors grade (weed) grass seed..  I had Pennington fall mix when I did the area just to the north of this and it looked fine.. This ... there can be no excuse.. I preped the ground.. Set the fertilizer and even went one step beyond, I put plant starter on it last week...  And this is the results.. Three weeks wasted..

Sparse grass and my biggest fear that at the start was if after a week the grass wasn't growing thick, it would allow weeds to grow.. Third week and the weeds look like I meant for them to grow...

This just has a laugh track built in.. SUCKER...

Badge Henry..

(P.S.  So what will be done??  Well after Monday I will tear it all up and reseed with something from Pennington.. Why did I try Scott's??  Well it looked like a good idea.. Was it the price?? Not really, I think it was the words "Contractors Grade" that caught my eye... Why should that mean anything??  I .. Guess I'm a sucker for big words in this case..   Now I think I'll look for words like loser proof.. Grows anywhere... Even a dipshit can get it to grow...   Sure.. I'll be the judge of that..)

(P.P.S. When it comes to guessing if I am doing something right I usually guess right.. In the case of growing grass it's the easiest thing in the world to do.. Or I should say it is normally the easiest thing in the world to do.. This was pure frustration, part of this was beat the clock as I was trying to get the grass to grow before the Labor day weekend being the big town celebration here in Podunk.. So I thought as the last week (final Thursday) of July dawned as I went forward with the partial  tilling of this section for a quick seeding.. I had sprayed roundup on the site... here and there sort of a half ass situation described on another entry.. I tried to seed the section, sure it would work, I had the drip irrigation set to go.. That never failed me.. But when I researched the best time to start new grass early spring was second only to fall seeding.. Seeding in summer was a distant fifth out of the four seasons to try to seed a lawn.. Yeah it was not rated a good time, and wasn't rated ahead of dead of winter.. Just don't the fuck do a summer seeding, you're better off tossing your grass seeds onto a snow bank..    So I won't do that again.. So that's on me..  So what to do about that site??  Leave it..  Actually I'm not sure I want to try a fall planting either.. I more than likely will but I would like to see if this grass is good against weeds because this would be a great trial because.. I'VE GOT WEEDS BY DAMN..   Yep, got weeds like I meant for them to grow.... I already said that.. well let the games begin... )