Our New Old Lawn...

We have known since last summer that our lawn is not cutting it. We were blessed to have a full, lush, green lawn at our old house, becuase the lack of trees allowed for plenty of sunlight to flow into the yard. Our new lot is much shadier, and while we love the trees (and privacy), it makes growing thick turf next to impossible. We are considering this summer our transitional season, which means that hopefully by next summer we will have a respectable lawn.

We started things off two weeks ago by raking up as much of the leaf debris as possible, and then followed up with an round of all-over fertilizer applied by Scott's Lawn service. Last week, they came by again and aerated the entire lawn and applied grass seed. Unfortunately, the soil plugs have to remain on the lawn to break down, and in the meantime, it looks like our grass is covered with goose-droppings.

We have been lucky that it has rained every day since the seed went down, so we have not even had to water so far. The next several weeks will be wait-and-see, as I for one am skeptical that new grass will really take root. Hopefully the yard will get a lot of sunlight in the next month before the foliage comes in on the trees. If this doesn't work, we may have to apply Scott's Patchmaster, which is a combo of seed in a newspaper like growing medium that we have had good luck with in the past.

Here are some shots of the current state of the lawn (it actually looks worse in person). I'll post an update every so often to show the progress.