Here's our back yard April 9th, 2012. Just a couple days after Dan and his brother Matt planted seed. Nothing had grown yet, so this is the starting point:
Here's another picture from 2 1/2 weeks later, on April 26th. Looking a little bit better (the leaves on the trees sure help huh) when you can compare the pictures side by side, but we felt like NOTHING had happened. Like we were just crazy people watering our weeds and dirt 3 times a day!
And here it is today, June 14th which is almost 10 weeks of watering, 1 round of fertilizer and 2 rounds of weed and feed.
We bought a mower and an edger last Saturday and 9 weeks after planting the seed, Dan gave it it's first mow, pretty exciting for us! Parts of the lawn are still pretty sparse but other parts were very tall and thick! Those weeds were gnarly, but the weed and feed had shriveled them quite a bit, it's awesome stuff.
It's getting better, hopefully in another month or 2 it will be mostly filled in. Growing grass takes patience man! I really understand what the saying "Just sit around and watch the grass grow" means a lot better now.
Funny story: So notice this plant growing in the back yard in the first couple of pictures? I drew in an arrow for you to see.
Well, I noticed that months ago and I thought, "Wow, they (the previous owners) did plant something in the backyard! How nice." Then a few weeks ago it flowered! How lovely. See? But then I looked up and into the field across the road from us and saw that it was FULL of the same thing! HA ha ha! Shows how plant ignorant I am. I laughed OUT LOUD at myself.
Dan dug it out and we sent it to the dump on Monday (you can see it's gone in the pic from today, if you scroll back up there). I thought it was pretty funny. We have a lot to learn. I don't plan to plant anything else this year, if we can get the weeds out, rake up all of the old rotting leaves and grow a lawn I will be satisfied. Plus I am scared to plant anything, because we have too many rabbits! Do you have rabbits? How do you keep them from eating your garden?
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We get a lot of weeds in our yard too. Maybe I should make Jason do more Weed and Feed. I'm so jealous your yard has trees!
Jason and Nicole have rabbits. We've never had the problem here. Gophers, skunks and deer we get.
I didn't realize grass takes that long to grow. As for the rabbits, maybe you can fence off the garden with a foot and a half fence. I found this blog online that has some other suggestions to try: http://garden-pond-accents.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-stop-rabbits-from-eating-your.html
Lookin good! I have a few "plants" in my flower bed that I'm not sure if they are plants or weeds. I've left them there for now to see what they'll do. :) Yards are quite the money pit!
Our grass looked very similar last year when we moved in. We moved in August though and decided not to work on the lawn before it got cold. This year we thatched, reseeded, and fertilized and it's coming back beautifully! Still patchy in spots, and more weeds than I'd like... but SO much better than last year. It's hard to have the patience to do projects, especially when you don't get instant results, but it's also very satisfying. Great job!
It's coming along nicely! I remember our rental house in Denver taking a long time before it looked really good. Dan looks like he was having a great time mowing! Wonder how he'll feel at the end of the summer :)
If I were you I would get some day lilies and plant a couple, or a few bulbs (like tulips, daffodils, hyacinth) so that next spring you have a heart lift when you look outside, I'm a sucker for flowers though, and it is almost impossible to kill day lilies...(I accidentally sprayed ours with round up instead of fertilizer and I didn't kill them) They aren't expensive, and you plant them in the fall so you don't have to worry about anything this summer, also they come back every year, as long as you split them after 2 or 3 years. Also, I noticed you have aspen in your yard. You might want to do some research on them so you don't have a HUGE mess on your hands...you yard is very cute and has SO many possibilities! CONGRATS!
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