Overseeding Prep 2018

If you’ve ever seen my yard it probably doesn’t need to be said, but I don’t know what I’m doing. That was made very clear this year. After removing 17 trees and having it graded and seeded last year (with tall fescue) there were moments of pride as the grass started showing up.

There used to be a forest there, now it looked like an actual yard.

But it never looked great. There were bare spots that I even had re-seeded but grass just never grew. Long-story-short: all the grass died off. I ended up with a yard of mainly weeds.

So today I ran the mower over the weeds, hopefully for the last time of the season. I also dug up one of the bare spots. It was weird because the ground was soft there and so I just dug at all the soft section which left a larger hole than I expected. I filled it back up with the cheapest topsoil I could purchase (which looked almost IDENTICAL to the soil I removed). Not only does the soil I replaced look almost identical, it feels the same spongy way after filling it back in…

Turf Titanz will be here on Tuesday to aerate and overseed. I will basically be starting from scratch.