The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[WRXtranceformed]

I'm chalking this up as a life skill. I used to struggle to get grass seed to germinate, then I realized topdressing actually worked pretty well. Top to bottom is about two months, including a very dry October where I had to water the damn yard every day (we have the most expensive municipal water in the US, I think). This are gets sun blasted like crazy, so I'm happy with the progress. 



Lawn restoration with only organic material was about 18 months worth of work, in all. I was tempted to spray it with all manner of synthetic shit more than once, but wanted to see it through. At some point it became a thing of personal pride, even if the lawn isn't that big (20% pictured). The trick was getting all the disjointed pieces effectively watered without getting any on the sidewalk, as it's a major pedestrian thoroughfare. Also, as I said, our water is expensive as hell. 

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new...ter-bills/

Well done man, having gone through this on a slightly bigger scale with our yard I feel your pain.  Ours has mostly filled in thanks to generous applications of milorganite but I think it'll take another 6-9 months or so to get it to where it should be. 

In other news, today I took on the refilling of a recessed bed my wife wanted to put in. I felt the irony in my back when filing it in with fill dirt when I remembeted digging and dumping probably 10 wheelbarrows full when we originally dug it.  While doing so I also killed a baby copperhead and three big fire ant hills.  Im all for organic methods but when it comes to pests I prefer to take the sharp shovel edge + scorched Agent Orange approach to those demon spawn