Theresa and I love projects we can do with the kids. A terrific one is small lawn repair.
Ideal for late summer/early autumn where we live, it only takes a few tools and some seed that will catch quickly.
After stacking some firewood this summer, Lexi and I found the grass beneath the old pile dead and that the patch of dirt being choked with weeds.
Here’s how we got grass growing again:
I torched the weeds with Spectracide Weed Stop For Lawns weeks before replanting (I used this on the entire lawn to crush the clover choking the grass; it also worked on the weeds in the patch area.)
Lexi tufted as many weeds out as she could and loosened the soil with a steel tine rake (I then re-tufted it and got everything she couldn’t using the back side of the rake to really get after some stubborn weeds.)
She followed up with the most important part of the process after the seed is down—watering. To lay down a nice, gentle spray she used our new Hyde Pivot Jet Pro sprayer. The gentle mist didn’t disrupt or otherwise flood and move the new seed.
