I have officially fired my husband from lawn care and I am taking over, like most other things. This is our first year as homeowners and we are transplants from the northeast so we clearly have no idea how to keep a green grass, let alone the fact that we live in bone dry and hot Colorado.
We had a NASTY case of crabgrass last year which I was determined to not let it come back in the spring and got the Scotts Crabgrass control and it worked like a charm. Awesome I thought, just water this baby and fertilize in the spring and fall and we are good to go. Nope. Some brown spots started creeping up and getting bigger. Frick! So tried watering a bit more. Can't water the heck out of it due to water restrictions from the drought we are in so almost gave up.
Saw my neighbor doing some pretty unpleasant yard work so stopped by to say hello and he said, yep, fungus. FUNGUS! What?! Yep, lots of work. Kill, rake, reseed, topsoil. sigh. So dragged my 4 and 2 year old girls over to our neighborhood Home Depot (so happy its only a 3 min drive). All ready to get my seed and go and the sales guy, who oddly enough used to be a car salesman tried convincing me to use Revive instead. I was planning on treating the grass like a fungus now totally confused on direction I should go. GRRRR. Why is there no easy formula to this lawn crap! So threw down the $20 for this experiment. Fingers crossed the easy way wins!
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| Deadness |
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| More deadness |
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| PUURDY! This is the goal! |
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