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Sun. October 22, 2006, 09:36pm PDT
Backyard lawn patch job
At least that what I hope the outcome will be. Ever since we moved in I've eyed our tiny backyard as a possible oasis. We already have a pretty decent covered deck and put in a beautiful row of bamboo. Unfortunately, the grassy patches that have thus far avoided being dug up are pretty spotty and really too bumpy for my poor little push reel mower. To mow smoothly I'd need to "pimp my ride" and add some shocks or something.
I bought a thatching rake a couple weeks ago to give the area a real scraping to loosen the soil and remove a thick carpet of old grass and tangled roots. Yesterday I toiled a bit to de-thatch the entire back area. Although it's pretty tough running steel blades though that tangle above the top soil, I made relatively short work of it and hauled 6 or 7 buckets stuffed full of thatch into our compost.
After a quick trip for some grass seed, soil, and fertilizer and after I recharged with lunch, I spread seed then hand covered it all with soil. Add a little water and hopefully I'll start seeing the reeds of my labor this week. I'm nerdy enough that I even put the same soil and seek into a little pot as a controlled example of what should start growing when. If the control grows but the lawn doesn't, I know we've got bigger problems and I'll probably resort to making the hole area a big patch work of salvaged granite chunks. My hope is the control will begin growing at the same time as the newly patched lawn. Stay tuned... (I just know your positively riveted ;)
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10/22/2006 @ 10:04pm
These are your best pictures ever.
As I scrolled through pictures 3 and 4, I could see the progression. It was only a matter of time before the grey dirt stuff reached the whole yard. :)
by Erik