There are a fair few empty bare spots on our lawn. I am not sure why though it might be because we don't water enough. Maybe we drive over the lawn too often? I don't know BUT several weeks ago I spoke with Chris at BC Mulch and More. She told me how to fix the lawn when I asked. This is her suggestion:
2. Use a garden fork to aerate the bare spot.
3 Spread the compost I was purchasing from her over the aerated spot.
4. Broadcast on the grass seed.
5. Water several times a day until the seeds are established.
This seemed like an easy project.
Not so!
The first issue was that Southern States only had grass seed in fifty pound bags. That would have been way overkill. At least that is my thought.
Southern States was in process of opening bags on pallets from another location and they were going to have and open bag the next day...so I came back.
They did not have a bag open. The nice boy at the desk suggested I call before coming so I could save my gasoline. I agreed to that.
A week later I did go back to the store and they still had not opened a bag but did it on the spot and sold me two pounds of seed.
Now the real fun began. As I was aerating the soil it seemed like just about every other poke into the ground hit a stone! R-r-r-r!! Well, I continued then spread the bucket of compost and aerated again. Next I got the seed from the house and broadcast a good bit of it. Finally I got the hose out and sprayed the ground in good shape. As I am writing this I am looking at the clock and need to go and water again.
Let us all pray that the seed takes hold and the lawn improves. If it does, there are more bare spots...
