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Complete do-over
Our house had been unkept for about 15 years. The house was pretty much abandoned. We did a complete rehab on the actual structures, so now its time to move to the lawn. Its a complete mess. NO GRASS at all. The dirt is more like clay since we redid the cement walkway and added a cement slab for a garage.
What is the first step?
DH wants to get the soil turned over, then get new dirt, then lay down sod. This all sounds like a lot of work and expensive since DH is not able to do it on his own (he works and is not super handy guy).
Re: Complete do-over
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
glad its not just me who started with a yard with no grass. It stinks, our looked like a wasteland.
We were working on a budget so we had someone level, bring in topsoil and prep the yard. We layed the sod ourselves. Well, we had a sod laying party. Its' amazing what beer, and pizza will bring the boys over to help. We rented the roller thats needed to flatten the sod, it was cheap to rent. We're very happy with the results and we saved a ton of money laying the sod ourselves. I wouldn't have done the prep work b/c it was too much for us.
Sod is nice because it's an instant look (even though there is a lot of work to keep up with it) but beware of where the sod is from. My parents used a semi-truck load of sod on their yard and it had lots of mysterious weeds that would grow 3 times as fast as the grass. We had to pull every dig every single one out by hand.
For much cheaper you can plant seed. We just had a geothermal system late last fall so we have a large area of lawn to re-plant and that's our plan. First get a soil test so you know how much fertilizer and what kind to use. Prep soil (lots of info on this online), lay seed, fertilize, and mulch with straw (or something similar). Then water, water, water.