I need a yard boy. Or yard girl. I don't care if it's a trained monkey, I just don't want to be the one to be breaking up dead grass and raking it out of the lawn. I have a little tiny area of what use to be lovely, green grass that got attacked by something called cinch bugs, or some such creature. The lawn spraying people tell me the problem is solved so then the cutting man told me to get some St. Augustine plugs to replant in the area.
He said it as if it was a breeze to do. Getting rid of the dead grass is a PITA - and hard for a novice lawn woman to do. I mean, I've done my share of lawn mowing - I was the one to work a few weeks longer at a construction site just so I could have extra money to buy a riding lawn mower. But this manual labor stuff is not what I signed on for.
Amazingly, when I was raking the dead grass away from the edge of the driveway I found TWO sprinkler heads that had been buried for a very long time, from the looks of the amount of grass that had grown over them. So, I'm learning lots of wonderful things. Things I really didn't care to learn, but it's probably a good thing for me to know so I can show someone else (when he gets here....) so HE can attend to them!
Now that I've raked the dead out I'm going to see if I can get the area watered to hold down the sand/dust and then I'll go out in the cooler morning hours tomorrow and plant the grass plugs I bought today.
He said it as if it was a breeze to do. Getting rid of the dead grass is a PITA - and hard for a novice lawn woman to do. I mean, I've done my share of lawn mowing - I was the one to work a few weeks longer at a construction site just so I could have extra money to buy a riding lawn mower. But this manual labor stuff is not what I signed on for.
Amazingly, when I was raking the dead grass away from the edge of the driveway I found TWO sprinkler heads that had been buried for a very long time, from the looks of the amount of grass that had grown over them. So, I'm learning lots of wonderful things. Things I really didn't care to learn, but it's probably a good thing for me to know so I can show someone else (when he gets here....) so HE can attend to them!
Now that I've raked the dead out I'm going to see if I can get the area watered to hold down the sand/dust and then I'll go out in the cooler morning hours tomorrow and plant the grass plugs I bought today.