Thursday, October 23, 2008

Soon to be Lawn


Pulled out the bluegrass, hairgrass, panicum, catnip, roses and the weeds. Apparently the plants i had planted had become mutant, with the bluegrass getting 5ft and the rose that had like 10 flowers per stem......... The soil when i had planted it was poor, i could barely pick-axe a hole to plant. Now after 2 years, its almost like butter, with chunks. The grass better grow like the pope and mother Teresa blessed it..... Im tilling it all by hand with a pitch fork, digging down about a ft and turning it over, adding some topsoil and pinebark/soil conditioner. If i do it right, the grass should be thick and highly drought tolerant when it matures. We'll see. Next step flatten and put one more topsoil layer on and seed, water and wait. Hopefully its not too cold to seed.....

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