If the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, then just how do they grow it??
One of the most shocking revellations I had after moving into a townhome with a smaller than "postage stamp sized" yard was that people had to go through great pains to grow . . . GRASS.
Um, doesn't that stuff just grow spontaneously??
I mean, I grew up on a farm with 25 acres and the most "gardening" I remember is picking out which flowers and vegetables to plant, choosing whether to use cedar or cocoa beans to cover soil with, and yes, some watering and weeding---the gardens, not the lawn!
You can imagine my surprise when every early spring our neighbours would buy massive (and I mean 4 ft cubed) bags of dirt for a pretty penny and started spreading it all over their lawn. Looking down the street it seemed our house was the only one that wasn't a mud pit.
Every evening they would be out there faithfully watering their "mud" until finally a nice, thick green lawn would appear, almost over night.
And our lawn (especially being a rental) would be dead and full of weeds.
Once we moved into this new place, I wanted to be on top of things. I really wanted my kids to have a thick, green luscious lawn to play on in our fenced yard. So, we took a bag of "weed and feed" early last spring and, well, killed more than just weeds.
We spent most of the summer trying to recover the scarred lawn and gave up with a few deep ones left.
This spring we have found more dead patches (possibly due to our new furry addition) and the old scars.
So, I have been out there attempting the seemingly impossible . . . growing grass in a back yard. (Imagine that!) Right now, our yard is as much of a mud pit as can be. I can't let the kids go out there anymore because all of that mud would most certainly land right in my kitchen (and really, it still does somehow). I am hoping that the rain they are calling for this week will really transpire and since the kids can't really go out, maybe the grass will grow in that time . . . and I can save money on watering.
What I can't figure out though is why it is so hard to grow grass in my yard, but I have oodles of it in my garden, where I don't want it??
And why are we paying for dirt?? It is sad enough that we pay for water!
2 comments:
Melanie, if you learn how to do it, let me know. We've been in this house for over four years now, and thanks to droughts, retarded cable installers, misinformed lawn guys, and really bad NC clay, we're no better off than where we started in our back yard!
That looks like a lot of work! You guys are really good renters to put that much work into your yard! I can barely keep up with the house, so thank heavens we don't have a yard! (Okay, that's not true - I'd actually love to have one!)
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