Soil

This is just a quick update on things.  The Scott’s Patchmaster is now right at 28 days and is doing nicely.  We’ve had a huge amount of rain here in the NE the last week so that certainly hasn’t hurt things.  My only fear is that the weather will go from very wet to super [...]

Continue Reading Weekend Update: Lawns and Scott’s Patchmaster (28 day report)

Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, rain, summer, till, Topsoil

A couple of days ago we posted pictures of the lawn where we had done the Scott’s PatchMaster patch over new topsoil we put down to try and level a big low spot in the lawn. There was no grass to be seen, but I said it would pop up any day now. Well, we [...]

Continue Reading Lawn Watch 2009 – Update

Tags: Fill, grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, Topsoil, Weeds

Okay, I bought some more Scott’s QuickPatch for part of the left side lawn I leveled off with topsoil and applied it tonight.  I put the soil down a week or so ago and we had a major rainstorm which I helped level it out and make it part of the yard.  I put weed [...]

Continue Reading Lawn Watch 2009 *tense music* (1 of 2 posts today)

Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, Weeds

I spent some time preparing the other (left)  side yard for more leveling out.   When I say leveling I just mean I’m trying to get the humps and dips out of the terrain that make it difficult to mow and maintain.   The sunken areas also tend to pool water and just don’t look appealing in [...]

Continue Reading Leveling the other side yard

Tags: dirt, Fill, grass, Topsoil, Weeds, yard leveling

I took some more photos on the progress of the lawns.   The peninsula area seems to be doing alright, although I had expected that maybe it would be further along, I just need to be patient I guess, it’s certainly an improvement over what it used to be!   I also took photo’s of the patch [...]

Continue Reading Update On The New Lawns and Yard