Okay, knowledgable friends. Here’s the situation.
We have a yard that has been torn up for sewer modifications. There are large, large areas of turned-up dirt, with exposed roots, rocks and clumps throughout. It is uneven, and quite red (being Georgia).
We have several 6 foot long, 3 inch deep, 1 foot wide dents in the area that has grass, from the impact of chunks of trees that came crashing into it.
We have a damaged dogwood tree which we’re going to try to nurse through its trauma of being hit by another tree.
We have a wheelbarrow, a shovel, a chainsaw, an electric hedge trimmer and electric lawnmower. And a bicycle pump.
What do we need to do to make our lawn a nice, even, grassy green again?
Today, we cleaned up a bunch of the rocks and roots, and planted a new dogwood, in case the old one doesn’t make it.
You need to fill in the low areas. I do not see pick up truck amounst your resources, but perhaps you can borrow one.
Hie thee up to Atlanta Landscape Materials on Buford Highway about a mile north of 285. Get a load of “Pro-Mix” return home and fill in the divots. Now head over to your friendly ace hardware and get a bag of grass seed, good for shade. After carefully checking your divots for levelness spread the seed on the divots and rake lightly. Also feather seed away from these areas onto the nearby undamaged areas.
Water daily for a week. It will fill in nicely. Within a couple of months, you should not even be able to see the patches.
Atlanta Landscape Materials. Got it.
Is there a good way to do some evening out of the bumpy area before I put down a bunch of dirt? A tool of some sort? Like those big steam-roller things I see when they’re paving a road? Except for yards?
Right now, it looks like the surface of mars, only bumpier.
There are a number of tools you could use for that. Honestly your best bet is probably an old fashioned rake. Your lawn does not have a lot of flat area to it so you are not so much leveling as contouring to match.
But a rake might be enough
Bumpier?
That’s it! That’s exactly it! Only with pine trees in the background.
Sounds to me like you need a good yardman. Mine is nuckinfuts and up to his eyeballs at the moment, or I’d send him.
I like the way you think.
Cable and a yardman? *sigh*
I don’t see how cable would help your yard.
Exercise your line-item veto!
I’m just going to veto the whole darn thing. No muss, no fuss.
But a yard man would free up your time to renovate the basement! Think about it….
I know a good basement guy…
I think the term you’re looking for is “back-door man.”
No. that’s the guy I keep in the closet. There’s a totally different guy I keep in my basement, but he’s really good at yard work.
They prefer a decor less into the black and silver than I think your guy does.
If they had cable, he’d know the answer to these questions, because there are shows devoted to yardwork.. It’s not all about bass fishing anymore.
Not Broadcast?
You mean there’s not an ABC show called Extreme Makeover: Yard Edition yet?
Re: Not Broadcast?
It’s on BBC and its called “Ground Force”
How to take an ugly british back yard and, in only three days, make a different ugly british backyard.
I think that would be best. Do you really, after all, want your husband to cut his foot off with a rototiller? I mean, it makes a great story and all, but then you’ve got a husband who buys shoes in singles.
Plus you’d be rubbing the economy, “kinda like saying, “Yard dude, you handle the yarding and leave the theatrical marketing to me.”