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First House, First Lawn
Hello! Normally I post over in S&R/BAH, but I need some gardening and lawn expertise, so I thought I'd come over this way.
DH and I bought our first house in September. It sits on about an acre and is mostly lawn, with the exception of a cluster of trees in one corner that shelter a very old family (not our family) burial plot. I want to do some landscaping in the border along the front of our house, so I was out doing a walk-through and taking photos this morning. What I found was not encouraging.
Our lawn is in less than fantastic shape. I guess that's part and parcel of the house not being lived in for at least a year before we bought it. A considerable amount of the lawn is not grass, like I thought, but is grass interspersed with a variety of creeping groundcover (I recognized creeping raspberry, but it's not the only one). There's no rhyme or reason to it -- it looks as though what the previous owners planted in the border got a mind of its own and flourished in random places all over the yard.
Is there a way for us to fix this? Can we just reseed or are we going to need to do a lot of removal work to get rid of the groundcover? There are a couple of spots where I actually want to use creeping raspberry, but definitely NOT where I've found it!
Sorry for the novel, but I'd appreciate any advice.
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