Nice lawn...NOT

You know you have a pathetic lawn when your hubby is mowing and stops to take a break and you look at each other with that special look and say, "My, the crabgrass is coming in nicely now, don't you think?"

This is our first year in the house and it sat empty for a year before that....and this year we have a drought, so there is no sense in spending money on sod...or even plugs. But that darned bahaia grass is going to bite the dust next Spring! "As God is mah witness, ah will nevah have bahaia grass again!"

Go for it Scawlet :)



Grass is so demanding, I would get rid of ours but my DH said he likes it.

Gotta take pictures! For the "before" comparison a few years from now.
I'll make you very proud.

Tam

Wish I had taken pictures when we moved in 11 years ago. We built in the middle of a pasture, and had nothing but weeds and crabgrass. Took 2 years before it was decent, but we have a beautiful yard now. DH takes care of it, and takes pride in how it looks.

Good Luck.

At least weeds and crabgrass... better than cows and patties...

Hey, I have cows and patties next door. I love it! The girls get out all along and always leave hostess gifts for me. I treasure them......as do my hydrangeas which doubed in size after I dropped one of the hostess gifts at the base of each of them this Spring!

Now I am jealous. Fertilizer for the asking!

Alas, with the drought, they have not been sepnding much time in the pasture next door. They ahve been feeding on trucked in hay instead of munching the pasture next door. One day they did get into the pasture beside the house and spend the afternoon munching the only green thing in the field......my pampas grass where it poked through the fence...which was fine with me because it gave me my one and only chance to pet one of the calves...normally way too shy to let me near them.

I am hoping that now that things are starting to green up again, maybe they will be spending more time in the pasture...so I can jump the fence and pick up little presents for my garden after the girls have gone in for the night...

Be careful, when the grass is greener in your yard they might come visiting. Pampas I can't imagine wanting to eat that!

LOL! What grass? The only greent higns inmy yard are the daylilies which get watred daily, the naners which alos get watered daily....and the darned bahaia grass seed stalks from Heck....oh, and the really, really healthy crabgrass that just loves all the vitamins I am feeding more poor wilted brugs.

Yep, you know the cows are desperate when they risk cutting their lips to shreds on pampas grass. Poor little baby moomoocows.......at least he let me pet his forehead. He's the cutest of them all, too...solid black with a white face.....

Awww jeeze Belle .. the weeds are GREEN arent they? LOL

X

Bama I sure know what you mean about the Bahaia grass. Our St. Augustine has almost choked it all out now but it took years. Our yard/yards were pasture too. Just native grasses, weeds, and bahaia. It's been a work in progress for years but sure has paid off. We have a very nice lawn now and actually too much of it. lol Even though I have my gardens and always want more I do love the green lawn.
Lin

I had a yard in Florida with my first husband. It was wall to wall weeds till I started slowly sprigging in some St. Augustine that some sweet bird 'dropped' on the lawn, and it took root and grew. Over a period of about two years I lovingly sprigged the entire yard...partly from that single patch the bird brought me...and partly from a few purchased plugs that I sprigged in rather than plugging so it would go farther. I had such a plush lawn it was like walking on carpet. Then I had my hip replaced and Mr. "I'm Too Busy Earning Money to Fool With The Yard" refused to drag hoses and water it for me. He was also too cheap to hire a landscaper or install a sprinkler system. The lawn bit the dust. When I left him, the yard was being taken over by weeds again. Then he mutilated the azaleas and Crape Myrtles. When he remarried, his current wife pretty much 'makred her territory' but removing any sembalnce of me as best she could. The only two things left, acording to my son, is the magnolia I planted out back (whcih will be biting the dust soon to make way for an enclosed porch) and the stand of oaks in the front yard taht I couldn't get rid of, so I finally gave up and decided to nurture them. I told my son to be sure to tell his stepmom that I put the oaks in....I'd like to see HER get rid of them. For years I kept digging up these oaks every time they sprouted...and within weeks, they would sprout right back up. The builder had just cut down trees and plowed under the roots and the oaks were growing up from the root of a tree that had been cut down. The only way to get rid of those oaks is to dig up the entire HUGE oak root...and that isn't going to happen...epsecially now that it has several large oak trees growing out of it. But, gosh, I'd like to see my son's wicked step mother try...... Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha......

They say the female of the species is usually the most deadly... especially when you mess with her offspring....

Oh, BTW, my sis brought me some plants last month and there was some St. Augustine growing in one of the buckets. I sprigged it in a couple of weeks ago. Last week it had put out so many runners, I was able to take them and break them off to create more sprigs and double the size of the patch. By winter, maybe I'll have a decent sized patch to start with next Spring.