Grass Lawn

We have a pretty large yard, a good portion of which is still grass.  I use the word grass loosely, since the main body of the grass is Bermuda (see previous rants, I mean posts about Devil's grass), but really most of the lawn is made up of weeds.  This year, I decided to do something about the grass because it looks particularly ratty.  There are multiple types of weeds in there, along with a few bare patches where the fire ants were particularly invasive. The obvious answer to our problem was to hire a lawn service.  So, I had two come out to give us estimates.

Both companies came out to the house and looked at the lawn, but neither actually took the time to come talk to us about the lawn to find out what we wanted.  These were the two highest rated companies in the area, and the only two which were really recommended by others.  Hmmmm.

Each lawn service left a list of things they would do for the yard (weed and feed, pre-emergent, etc.), along with a month by month timeline in which they would perform our lawn maintenance. Their lists were identical, so I popped out to the garage and looked at the bags of stuff we had out there from when my brother helped landscape the property.  Check it out!  We had pre-emergent, weed and feed, lime, and every other thing listed on the timeline from the lawn service companies.  Hooray!  We also have the spreader tool to use, which is so much easier than trying to evenly distribute by hand.

So, instead of paying 40-ish dollars each month for a lawn service, we're going do-it-yourself for free.  We have loads more time than money these days, so it just made more sense.  March is already done (it took no more than 15 minutes) and we have our list up for the next few months. Of course, the real issue was never the money or the service, but was instead the crappy looking lawn.  Wish us luck as we fight the good fight to make the parts of lawn that are still lawn look green, rich and, well, grassy.  If it doesn't work out, I may end up calling the yard service.