Things seem to be going good all around out here.   I mowed the peninsula lawn this weekend for the first time since planting the grass and it looks great.   It’s still thin but now that it’s gotten more sun absorbing leafy surface area going and I added the starter fertilizer it’s really been picking up pace.   With any luck this lawn will be established before the weather gets too hot, but I’m not sure.   We’ve only been watering it every 2 days using the timer lately.  It’s still bright and green and seems to be thriving.  Additionally we’ve gotten rain over the past two weeks which helps save money on water, etc.

The lawn on the back yard hill is growing in okay, I was hoping it would have been thicker but that doesn’t seem to be the case.   If I could have gotten this or the peninsula to grow in as fast and thick as that Scott’s quick patch (PatchMaster(tm)) stuff I’d have been happy.   Maybe I need to look into hydro-seeding for any future lawn work ( DIY Hydro-seeder anyone? ) .    The Scott’s quick patch is basically hydro-seeding ingredients minus the water from what I saw on the bag.   I saw a spot down the road where the town had cut up some big 8-12 foot wide swaths of land to do fire hydrant work, then hydroseeded when done.   That was 2 weeks ago and the grass is already growing really fast there.

I also have some more photos of the Iris flowers.  The second one looks like it’s sticking it’s tongue out   Say ahhhh!

Additionally are the photo’s of something special brewing in ‘Mom’s Sunshine Garden’  I was worried they weren’t going to come up, but they bloomed fairly quick.  It appears something has been nibbling them, but with the number of bunnies I’ve seen around here, I hope it’s them and not bugs!

And finally you can see a couple of herbs from the garden planter.  The first one is Sage and the second one is Parsley.

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In the back yard there were some HUGE dips and sags in the soil which made the area look like a small association of rolling hills.  Additionally the blue stone which the property sits on was poking up through certain areas.   This last weekend I ordered 5 cubic yards of topsoil and we filled in the holes quite a bit and planted new grass for that area.   We tried something different with this area, getting seed germinating mats made out of some kind of wood fiber.  We’re going to see how those work out for their intended purpose.    The mats are biodegradable so you don’t have to rake them out of the lawn, and the stakes are also biodegradable.

Here’s the view from ‘street side’ look back into the back yard.

New topsoil on the back yard areas that had huge huge dips in them.

Here’s a view of the same area looking from the barn towards the planter.

Shot from the back yard by the barn to the planter.

Here’s how it looks with the mat installed.

Back yard fill with seed germination mat

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