"mrkool" wrote in message
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Hi Shane,
pre-emergent and watered and fertilized some now, not a lot,
and by May, he has the lawn to lay on, it's thick and soft and green as
John Deere paint.

snippety snip

think he had a mix of about
5 different grasses, some for shade and some for path, but it really
looks good.


I gotta say, it may sound like the hard work is too much, but we did do the
whole lawn thing. It's 70 x 60 now. Gave the dogs 20 ft.

It is so well worth the extra trouble, and we don't have any weeds in there,
now. I don't need a weed spray as the grass is so thick hardly any get in
there, and I can go hand pick the 9-10 weeds that may start up in one week
period. As long as I get them young, and get the roots, I have a weed free
yard with VERY minimum of work *now*.

When we bought the house, the yard was a mess from all the trucks in and
out, plus it had nothing but a few weeds coming up here and there. It was
September and the inside was our priority. So we waited til spring, then hit
*everything* with Round-Up, this was after devoting a quarter of the yard to
a long, chain link dog run, (70 X 20 ft. !!), filled with sand. (Came in
handy as we had the guy leave us a load of sand.)

Had someone come over this spring, tilling the whole yard, and spreading
that extra sand, and the many dead leaves, into our clay soil, here in SE
Kansas. Then we seeded and rolled it.)

I went out and got a fescue mix, (can't remember the other ones in it) but
it was for shade and sun, as it gets pretty shady out there this year. We're
going to be trimming the trees in the fall or spring. But right now, (and
even though we had a dump truck come in and almost trample huge areas of
grass, re-sanding the dog run, thanks to trader4! g) we now have a golf
course lawn. I absolutely LOVE taking my shoes off and walking around in it.
I put down a LOT of seed, more then they recommended, so I had to water more
for the first few months, but it is gorgeous now. (Slight track marks are
just now fading away.)

This lawn is thicker than any carpet I've ever had! And to lie down on it?
Feels wonderful, as long as I remember to treat it to anti-chigger
pesticide. eg

That's the great part of having the dog run. They ruined our other backyard
lawns, and even though I picked up after them and watered after them, they
still wore it down. AND even though I hate to use chemicals, I refuse to
live here, with *this* lawn, and not get rid of the chiggers! We can do that
now, and not harm the dogs. BG

Just my 7 cents,

MaryBeth