My lawn isn’t just your typical spring mess. Huge portions of it are dead or dying. Something nasty happened over the winter, and we have to figure out our next step. We are not yard-working people. We don’t do well standing in the hot sun with rakes and shovels. We are not skilled when it comes to landscaping. I fear that there is no hope that we can get something green happening out there. So when should we throw in the towel and just replace the lawn with something else? Cement or brick come to mind.
Post-vacation, it’s going to take us a few weeks to get back on even footing financially. I keep forgetting that I’m not going to get a paycheck Friday (because I didn’t work last week). I hate when that happens. So it’s not like I can just dial up a landscaper to do it all for us. But I think that’s what we’re going to have to do. My across the street neighbor’s nephew has done landscaping for her, so I’m going to ask her what he’ll do and maybe get a price. I don’t know…is there a landscaper out there who will do all the work and let us just pay a little up front at the rest when they’re done?
Don’t do a thing. It will grow back. Grass is like that.
Bill, I think my problem is the same as Jerry’s, and I don’t think it will grow back if I just leave it. There are large patches of dirt where grass used to be – and without seeding, etc., I just think the soil that I DO have will wash down to the sidewalk or the neighbor’s yard. Trust me, normally I ignore the lawn and figure if God wants it green he’ll water it, but there’s actually something wrong with it that might require human intervention.
well Jody you have to figure out what kind of grass is in the rest of your yard, or you’ll have some kind of Kentucky Bluegrass next to your Ryegrass… and that would look like a Picasso painting. only bi-color.
a good reference is http://www.american-lawns.com/grasses/grasses.html to figure out what you’d want for your climate & amount of rainfall.
Grass grows like a weed if you give it a couple inches of decent soil to take root and plenty of water.