Curb Appeal: Growin' Grass

A nice green lush yard is hard to come by here in Colorado.  It takes A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT to get nice green grass to grow.  That's why there are a lot of rock yards or xeriscaping here, it's just a lot easier to maintain.  But growing up in Iowa, both Craig and I appreciate yards overflowing with green grass so a rock yard wasn't an option.  (even though some of our yard resembled a sandbox)

We have lived in our house for 2 years and our first summer in the house we realized that the front yard needed some desperate help.  There were spots of grass, spots of sand, and spots of weeds- majority of the later.  Craig was gone in Georgia for the spring and early summer, so it was all on me to get the yard in shape!  I had no idea what I was doing : )  My next door neighbor fixed my sprinkler system and got it up and running.  Because it's so dry here a sprinkler system that runs several times a day is an absolute must if you want a lush lawn.  I spent a lot of time pulling weeds, raking dirt, spreading seed, fertilizing, laying top soil... but after two summers of hard work we still didn't have the grass that we desired.  Every year it's like we started all over again.

Desperate times call for desperate measures... it was time to start completely from scratch!  Craig rented a rototiller and up came the front yard...

Craig is supervising our friend Rodney who came to help

After laying grass seed and fertilizer there was a lot of this...

And whala....!

It's not perfect but we are getting closer to the lush green grass yard that we can be proud of!