[Maru]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…yeah, sometimes the lawn has to reach rock bottom before it can become healthy again and a little torture is needed to do that…we had some hard landscaping done and I the lawn has been left in an awful condition so like you…?…we’re having to aerate and scarify etc but hopefully it’ll all be for the greater good or the greener good…it’s a satisfying thing though because it brings about such transformations for all of the hard work…so eventually a real feel good…..

Thankfully no scary scarifying. Most of the trouble spots are from the "brutal" 1-2 days of snow we had this year and other stress. It's looking better and I'm getting ready to fertilize. It usually fills back in quickly. The tree already dropped all its pollen bits and it seems leaves mostly have stopped shedding as a well. I had to wait for the ground to dry after I core aerated. I didn't pull up all them since this is how St Augustine spawns so tried to just remove the unhappiest ones I transplanted some into the front yard where there is shade and they're already sowing.

We bought some Zoysia (Zenith) plugs to fill some trouble areas in the front lawn. From a sod farm in MD of all places (my husband's home state) so a little bit of home Even came with an Agricultural inspection certificate, so felt very official

Whatever grass is in those spots now just doesn't thrive in full sun, so just want to balance it. I also need to add some sand overtime because our front has a lot of clay. Maybe I'll transform itself overtime, but it's not that important this year to have specific quantities of certain grass. More that it is "good", able to thrive grass.

I'm also debating a manual lawnmower... I'm not sure on that yet or if I've lost my mind It's more physical labor but I think that's kinda the point. I'm really enjoying Spring so far. Everything is spawning very lovely-like