We've got grass!
Yesterday, after noticing some of the blades of grass were extending up past 4” already, we decided to pull up the covering. Of course as soon as we planted the seed and laid the covering down I couldn’t stop myself from looking all over the internet because one thing we did glean from the copious lowes visits is that there were multiple schools of thought on the straw. Some said leave it, it was fine- and this particular material did say it was biodegradable; others said to pull it up at the first sign of grass so that it can get enough sunlight. Once I looked further into the “biodegradable” claim and realized it would degenerate it 6 months to a year, we decided after two weeks it would come up. This had the added advantage that we can reuse the material either for overseeding or when we decide to do something about the front.
We carefully pulled it back trying to step as lightly as possible but for some reason didn’t think to work toward the garage and ended up with a pile in our front yard. I tried to convince Clint to leave it for a couple of days until we could more safely walk on the grass (we were worried about crushing it) but he was understandably concerned about our reputation with the neighbors. My next bright idea was walking it through the house, which he quickly rejected, or putting a tarp down and dragging it through- also shot down. We ended up piling it into the wheel barrow and rolling it around the block to the back. The pile was larger than the two of us, so I held it up while verbally navigating Clint around corners. We somehow made it to the alley, where we quickly assessed the size of the pile, and the space in our garage and decided the only place for it for now is on the side of our garage, until we can dry it out and reroll it. It looks like we hosted an episode of hee haw, but the yard- the yard looks amazing! Well…amazing compared to what it did. It looks best if you get down eye level with the grass and look out on it, you can envision the future sea of green that it will become, especially when the wind gently ripples through. Of course looking at it from above you really only see sparse, patchy, singular blades of grass, but given our expectations were set about as low as we could go, we are ecstatic. We threw some more seed down in the patchy areas and continue to water and hope for the best.
We carefully pulled it back trying to step as lightly as possible but for some reason didn’t think to work toward the garage and ended up with a pile in our front yard. I tried to convince Clint to leave it for a couple of days until we could more safely walk on the grass (we were worried about crushing it) but he was understandably concerned about our reputation with the neighbors. My next bright idea was walking it through the house, which he quickly rejected, or putting a tarp down and dragging it through- also shot down. We ended up piling it into the wheel barrow and rolling it around the block to the back. The pile was larger than the two of us, so I held it up while verbally navigating Clint around corners. We somehow made it to the alley, where we quickly assessed the size of the pile, and the space in our garage and decided the only place for it for now is on the side of our garage, until we can dry it out and reroll it. It looks like we hosted an episode of hee haw, but the yard- the yard looks amazing! Well…amazing compared to what it did. It looks best if you get down eye level with the grass and look out on it, you can envision the future sea of green that it will become, especially when the wind gently ripples through. Of course looking at it from above you really only see sparse, patchy, singular blades of grass, but given our expectations were set about as low as we could go, we are ecstatic. We threw some more seed down in the patchy areas and continue to water and hope for the best.
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Your kid is doomed.
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