Showing posts with label project kill crabgrass and clover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label project kill crabgrass and clover. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

project kill crabgrass & clover: day 25

It's here! It's here! Check out my pretty, new green yard of marathon sod! Yippee! Now I just have to make sure my super-confusing, hi-tech sprinkler system is set properly to water it three times a day for the next two weeks so it roots itself and doesn't die and I'll be set! :)

Full shot of the main yard (aka Sprinkler Zone 5)
Side yard (aka Sprinkler Zone 3)
Curbside
(aka Sprinkler Zone 6)


The final "timelapse" photo taken from
the mailbox
 (for consistency's sake :) 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

project kill crabgrass & clover: day 24

All the dead grass was dug up yesterday and replaced with fresh, weed-free dirt. Sod arrives tomorrow and then I will have a pretty green lawn I have to start watering again.


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

project kill crabgrass & clover: day 12

My front yard is now officially dead. So dead I felt the need to go tell both my neighbors what was going on so they don't think I'm a bad neighbor trying to bring the neighborhood property values down. And so dead that some sort of creature (squirrels? birds? aliens?) has decided to start digging holes in it looking for buried treasures. Hey, as long as it keeps the squirrels from digging up my gardens, go for it! Just don't get used to it... lovely, thick, green, new sod arrives right before "Carmageddon II." 


Monday, September 3, 2012

project kill crabgrass & clover: days 1 & 3

So over the last two to three years, my once lovely front yard has been taken over by many, many evil, evil weeds... specifically clover and crabgrass. As of the day before I left for Hawaii, it was to the point that there was more clover and crabgrass than real grass. So I'm now taking drastic measures, inspired in part by the lovely yards at the house across the street that just got flipped, and my next door neighbor Leigh Ann's. I'm killing it ALL, having the gardeners dig it all up, and am purchasing rolls and rolls of marathon sod so I can once again have grass in my front yard. 

Day 1: On Friday morning, the gardeners cut the grass/weeds back super-short and sprayed massive amounts of Roundup to kill it ALL! I didn't take a pre-cut photo of all the not-pretty-green clover, (sorry), but this photo Friday late afternoon shows the Roundup is already working as brown patches are forming where clover once grew. 




Day 3: That Roundup stuff really works! As of Sunday morning, my yard now smells like hay. The remnants of what little grass I had are dead, as is all the clover. The crabgrass is still holding on though. I have to look at this ugliness for another 11 days, then the gardeners will start digging it up and prepping for the sod. Yay!