Help beside trying to go and get grass to grow.? I've recently moved into a rental house. I'm used to living...
I've recently moved into a rental house. I'm used to living in an apartment, so I really don't know anything roughly speaking gardening. In my small front yard I have two trees (oak and pine) which pretty much cover the complete front yard with shade. The one and only part where grass exists is the with the sole purpose part that really sees the sun. Everything else is pretty much dirt next to a speck of grass hear or there. I'm a single mom and a college student, so I'm on a very controlled budget living paycheck to paycheck so laying new grass down isn't an substitute. My neigbor told me that previous tennents parked their cars in the yard slaughter the grass. I want to know if watering the yard will help the grass spread or am I a short time ago wasting my time? I'm only talking something like an area of about 500 square foot thats covered in dirt and the other area beside grass is about 200. Is there anything else I can do on a small budget to back it along? I'm hoping to bring the yard back to go since I'll be living here for a few more years.
Yes, cut some branches bad the tree, not a lot, just ample so that the whole yard see direct sun at some point in the day. buy a small shoulder bag of grass seed and a small bag of fertilizer. put down the fertilizer surrounded by a small area that is within the sun a lot (so that it is about partially an inch to an inch thick.)
then embezzle a hand full and spread it over the fertilizer repeat until there is a nut or two every few millimeters. Water until the soil is wet to the touch. then sea until wet once a week or so, in the evenings.
The grass should switch on to appear in a week or two, however, I recommend that you leave it alone for the first several weeks, and describe your kids to stay away from it until it is thick, (so that when looking at it you see more grass than dirt) then you can stride on it, but i wouldn't recommend high traffic for the first several months.
if you are extremely limited on budget, start next to a small area, and as you can afford, expand the area covered by grass as shown above.
I would try to scrape the top layer of the ground breaking the soil, purchase a few squares of st. augustine grass and wet everyday. It should not take long for it to catch on and grow. This grass spreads pretty rapidly.
If you don't break the soil chances are oil and the grill from car motors have kill all the grass roots under the soil. rake adjectives of the pine needels and leaves off the dirt and buty the cheap grass seads that fit into your budget and put it on there
Answers: Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy bubble.