Our lawn isn't huge, but I do try to look after it. However this hot, dry summer, a female dog and a huge energetic puppy galloping around have left it looking pretty grim. I know the grass regrows very quickly, and it has in places. But there are a lot of other places where Eva has effectively killed it, and dogs pounding over it during the wet spring have made it very uneven.
So today it had a grooming session. OH scarified it with the tiller. We collected two huge bags of dead grass when we raked up, then I cut it twice - once on a high setting to get up more of the dead stuff, then again to take it down to a reasonable length. Then OH went over it again, this time with the aerator attachment on the tiller. We then raked up another 1 1/2 bags of dead grass. So now the lawn has great big patches of nothing, none of it looks green and I have to say it looks like a disaster area! And we ache all over.
We are going to reseed over the whole area on Wednesday before we go away, then hopefully it may have a chance to get started without 'help' from Eva or Cooper. I'm hoping some of the grass will germinate quickly to cover up some of the bare patches.
So today it had a grooming session. OH scarified it with the tiller. We collected two huge bags of dead grass when we raked up, then I cut it twice - once on a high setting to get up more of the dead stuff, then again to take it down to a reasonable length. Then OH went over it again, this time with the aerator attachment on the tiller. We then raked up another 1 1/2 bags of dead grass. So now the lawn has great big patches of nothing, none of it looks green and I have to say it looks like a disaster area! And we ache all over.
We are going to reseed over the whole area on Wednesday before we go away, then hopefully it may have a chance to get started without 'help' from Eva or Cooper. I'm hoping some of the grass will germinate quickly to cover up some of the bare patches.
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