I spent ALL SUMMER watering this yard with good well water…adequate mineral content….nice high temperatures….the best fescue grass seed money can buy, from our top lawn place up in town, Rural King…
…and, nothin.
This was about the same time that I took what was left of the grass seed and literally THREW it across the front yard, where the muddy/bare patches were, and tossed some straw on top of them because they were…well…MUDDY.
And here’s what happened:
Front yard. Growing.
So I brought in two trucks of gravel in September and had the driveway poured, shored up and looking good…and now the grass decides to grow THERE, too. Through the rocks. Ever mindful of toxins, I eschewed the idea of Round-Up right out the back door, and we’re using boiling water to kill the grass that insists on growing between the rock. But you have no idea how I fought getting grass to GROW in this very spot:
Site of former lack of grass. Til the gravel came.
And when the gravel got here, it was like a fertilizer. All that grass poking up through the rocks. Figures.
Then, of course, we had heavy rains. And those floated the errant seeds from other locations back across the back yard and down the hill…where I didn’t even plant any. So I threw straw out there too. And here comes THAT grass:
Seeds....washing downhill....of course. Why not. They MOCK me.
So here’s my dilemma….I mowed the yard all summer, even though it was mostly brown and dry and ragged looking, but you know, I didn’t want to look like certain ones who live out around these here parts that look like they’re running a junkyard….and now, it’s officially winter, and this DAMNED GRASS IS GROWING!! In some spots it’s taller than my ankles…wth?? Mushy yard, don’t want to get the John Deere rider out; grass is in weird spots that would be hard to reach with the push mower; and I don’t feel like weedeating after spending March to October doing so….
….sigh.
Illinois. You never know what you’re going to get when it comes to the weather…and I guess that translates to yard work too.