Hi, I recently found your original article and just loved it! What a great job you did in presenting it in a way that anyone can understand. All the other info that I found was so scattered, incomplete and confusing. Anyhow, I am very glad I found it! Now,of course, I have questions.
We have a lawn in front of the house about 2250 sq ft and in the back half of that. The front lawn also has a big oak tree in it, so we have shade, full sun and then a little bit of both. I dug as you advised to find out how deep my lawn is and it's about 4 -6 inches. I found a few worms. I haven't tested the soil yet. We moved to our house 3 years ago and haven't done a thing to the lawn besides watering it a bit with a sprinkler and put some Scotts fertilizer last year. Well, the lawn now has moss, wild strawberry, and another weed (round shiny leaves with yellow flowers - don't know what that is). There is also some clover popping up and dandilions, which I don't mind. It's those groundcovers that I can't stand.
So, this spring, I got some topsoil and spread it around the bare spots all around the lawn. Before that (yes, doing things backwards a bit) I put down some seed ( scotts mix). And just last weekend put down 3/4 bag of the Ringer's "Lawn restore".
I plan to mow high from now on and hopefully often. Our underground sprinkler system works right now 30 mins 3 times a week..but I want to switch to your method of watering soon. Could you please tell me when I should start watering less? The new grass is popping out, the weeds (dandilions and some others) are seeding (aahhh!!!) and the old grass is still too short....
Also, main concern, is how do I get rid of the wild strawberry, and that other ground cover? Our neighbors house is empty and their lawn is overtaken by these things. My back lawn is being overtaken by them as well..... Is it possible to get rid of them or do I have to over do the whole thing?
Thank you for all your advise.
OM
