The Dreaded Lawn

Had a great weekend!!!  This weekend was very productive.  I’m getting ready for my graduation cookout on May 6 so this weekend I started working on the outside of the house.  I’m also getting a deck built onto the back of the house in a week or two to accommodate the friends and family who plan to attend (I’ll take some before and after pictures).  Side note* This weekend, I also took my daughter to her first overnight stay at the Girl Scout camp.  She had a great time.  Personally it looked like a prop from Friday the 13th, but of course I didn’t mention the likeness to Camp Crystal Lake 🙂

One of the things that got tackled this weekend, which I hadn’t planned for was my dreaded lawn.  My uncle Wayne and boyfriend tilled my side yard so that I can actually grow some grass there.  I didn’t think my weekend would be that productive, but it turned out really nice.  The sun was shining and the weather was at a nice 85 degrees. I don’t know much about seeding a lawn, but I know two years ago I tried and nothing happened 🙂  I was advised to till my dirt and missed the opportunity last year.  We have that wonderful red clay dirt here in the south so we finally found the time to rent a tiller.  Of course the men did all the work with the tiller although I was completely fascinated by such a strong machine and wouldn’t have minded doing some tilling myself.  We rented the tiller from Lowes.  It costs about $50 with a $100 refundable deposit on a credit card.  My task was to help rake and pull more weeds.  There were so many weeds in my yard that some had roots about 2 feet long!  Yesterday the lime was added to the dirt and now we will proceed with adding grass seed.  There was a huge thunderstorm last night and I was hoping that the rain wouldn’t make the grass too muddy.  To my surprise, every thing is fine and my lawn is ready to go.

My guess is that since I have those wonderful Bradford pear trees in the yard that I will need to get some shade loving grass.  Bermuda I heard was really good so I guess its time to research and find out the process and types of grass to grow in the yard.