Our grass in the back is finally making an appearance! Brent harvested plugs from our front to get our back lawn going. The strip in the front for the harvest was only about 2 feet by 4 feet and it filled all of this. Very impressive! In the fall of 2018 he planted the little tiny plugs in a section of the backyard. By early May of 2019 this is what the tiny plugs looked like:
Not bad! It was a summer of babysitting this patch (weeds, ugh!!!). But just this morning I took the picture below and you can see that it is filling in very well. Pay special attention to my "rock harvesting" in the back corner of our lot. Sifting dirt makes my back ache but I am determined to have the best soil around!
Below is a photo of a patch that we did over a year ago and you can see that it does eventually fill in well. Patience and pulling (the weeds, not your hair) are key. It is so nice to cover our dust bowl in the back! Before we planted the plugs we hauled in multiple loads of mulch/compost that we tilled into the ground. Our soil is pretty dead so it needed a lot of organic material to thrive. We raked rocks for day and days, watered to level the soil, then planted.
In other news, I actually picked some permanent plants for the front! I have loved my mini white Rose of Sharon tree. I also planted a flat of yellow petunias from Costco that were on clearance for $6. They took over that front patch. They obviously love the soil that I made!
First day of school in front of the exploding petunias!
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