Few Things More Gratifying...

than planting grass seed in the Fall.

We had a depression in the lowest part of the back yard which stayed wet longer and longer and became more impossible to mow through, eventually turning to standing water like a bog.

We hired someone to lift the sod, add new dirt and put down sod, but they came the day before we left for Fourth of July vacation during the hottest part of the year. Portions of the sodded grass died.

I finally got the grass seed two weeks ago, scratched the dirt/dead sod, stirred the seeds around and went on to the next bare spot. I quickly tired of that approach and just put the seed on top of most of the remaining patches.

Here we are two weeks later and the first part I worked up has bloomed famously (frothy lighter green in foreground), the other bare parts still have the seed sitting on top, not even the birds have found it.