Lawn Rehab

Now that Roman is walking he needs space to run and play.  Our front yard has deep green, luscious, grass that he can play in, but with a south exposure, it gets very hot very fast.  Attempting to play with Roman in the back yard one afternoon I became so frustrated with the state of the lawn that I decided it was going to be fixed NOW. Between the previous owner not looking after the lawn and the dogs (specifically Bronx) running laps through the yard, the poor grass (if you can even call it that) is in pretty rough shape. There are large sections that have be worn down to the dirt, others have patches of relatively healthy grass, and other areas have reverted to prairie grass.

I immediately loaded Roman up in my car and headed to Canadian Tire to get supplies.  I picked up two rakes and a bag of Scotts Turf Builder Sunny Mix grass seed.  I might have also picked up a few flowers while in the garden centre, but we just won't tell John about them...

Once Roman was in bed for the night war was unleashed on the lawn.  We started by raking the grass to remove all the dead grass and loosening the dirt so they grass seed would sit in the dirt rather than on top of the soil/dead grass.  Using a hand spreader we spread the entire bag over our lawn.  We put the seed on fairly thick so that there wouldn't be any bare spots and so we'd have the best chance at germination.

After two days of watering we decided to follow the seed with a layer of Scotts Turf Builder Lawn Fertilizer to give the grass an extra boost.  We had a partial bag left from fertilizing the front lawn so we just used what was left of the bag.  We are continuing to water the grass every other day or so (if it isn't raining) to keep the seed moist and to dissolve the fertilizer.  Now we play the waiting game and hope that grass grows!  To be continued....