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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I mowed the lawn and got a couple flights in with the Mini-Titan helicopter.  It’s a great little heli, though there’s not a lot of room in the yard, yet, to get really crazy with it, I just buzz around over the back yard.   There’s an R/C club a few miles away I might join, if they don’t mind helicopters.  A lot of places don’t like these ‘dagblasted whirly birds’ flying around their airplanes

As you can see in the pic of the other side yard, it hasn’t been taken care of yet, I’ll probably work on raking out the dead wild violet roots, filling in the holes and sunken spots this week evenings and put some grass seed down.   I’ve started to cut back on watering of the peninsula lawn, I want to force the grass to start extending it’s roots down into the soil so that it will hopefully be decently established by the time our smoldering summer comes along.

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