Grass help!?
Question:The previous owners of my family's house owned a landscaping company; Unfortunately, they all married off and the plants and grass were left uncared for.
Grass:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/b...
Grass Close:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/b...
What should we do to make the grass full, pretty, and green again?
Answers:
Yeah, looks like reseeding is about the quickest way to get it back.
Home Depot or tool rental shops have power "pluggers" (built similar to a roto-tiller) that actually pull plugs from the soil and redistributes them as you go.
After making Many passes in straight lines across the yard, make passes diagonally `til you have holes covering the yard.
landscape people recommend 2" inches apart for a rich thick growth.
Then sow your seed and water with Miracle-Gro Lawn Food.
They have a kit with a bottle that screws onto the end of your hose. Just don`t water so much that you float the seed back out of the holes. I DID that my first time (:<
UHH, I just noticed the time stamp on your photos say 2003.
Is it worse than that now? 4 years later?
You might just want to get a tiller and start over.
It looks like it was beautiful once upon a time `tho.
RT
Looks like you need to seed/reseed
I hear this 'the previous owners' story all the time, and what I've learned is this means you have not accepted this lawn as your problem. Now until the day you accept this as your problem, I am afraid you will continue to wonder and ponder the dilemma and nothing ever gets done.
What advice do you need that you haven't heard yet?
You have to get off your duff and do it, plain and simple.
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