[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Lawn advice

[Lawrence Lile]

Sgrìobh Speireag the Tall:

>If you have hard-packing clay soil, then I would suggest improving it before you plant anything.  Till in lots of organic matter.  Peat moss, compost, wood chips, almost anything to add organic material will help in the long run.  The better decomposed it is at the outset, the sooner it will help.

That advice applies everywhere.  I've been trying to get some native grass started in hard clay, and the only thing growing there is ragweed, and not much of that.  Next year I may start over in small areas after digging in compost and just give up on the rest.  Anybody in the market for ragweed seeds?

Lawrence the Short

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Sgrìobh Frank Flynn:

>I live in the San Francisco Bay area where we typically have dry 
>summers (no rain from April to October) and rain but no snow in the 
>winters.

     I grew up there, so I know the climate well.

>We are in a drought and I've let my lawn die by not watering it.

     Good for you!  When I was growing up in the seventies, we let our 
lawn die, but we managed to keep the hedges alive by siphoning the 
second rinse from the washing machine.


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injury that provokes it.
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