Comments on: Oh, how I know now … http://bluehouseblog.com/let-home-contractors-focus-on-their-specialty Dispatches from the home of Angie's List magazine. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mandy http://bluehouseblog.com/let-home-contractors-focus-on-their-specialty#comment-30 Mandy Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:08:32 +0000 http://bluehouseblog.com/?p=68#comment-30 Surprisingly, it did grow from seed in July. I just had to skirt by the citywide water shortage notice and voilah! Plus, we used this quick-grow stuff that is stellar — not real resilient and a very almost-unnatural neon green, but grows like crazy. This years, it's Kentucky bluegrass, baby. Oh yeah. Surprisingly, it did grow from seed in July. I just had to skirt by the citywide water shortage notice and voilah! Plus, we used this quick-grow stuff that is stellar — not real resilient and a very almost-unnatural neon green, but grows like crazy. This years, it’s Kentucky bluegrass, baby. Oh yeah.

]]> By: Tristan http://bluehouseblog.com/let-home-contractors-focus-on-their-specialty#comment-29 Tristan Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:04:28 +0000 http://bluehouseblog.com/?p=68#comment-29 I didn't know grass wouldn't grow from seed in July. Not that it matters, as my dogs would destroy it even if it did grow then. Maybe you should just get some big dogs for your backyard — that way, you'd have an excellent excuse for the grass's patchiness! Seriously, though: at least you're doing the seeding in a methodical way. I attacked my front yard through carpet-shrub bombing all at once (well, over a week), and I'm realizing that a slow, deliberate plan would have possibly been better... I didn’t know grass wouldn’t grow from seed in July. Not that it matters, as my dogs would destroy it even if it did grow then. Maybe you should just get some big dogs for your backyard — that way, you’d have an excellent excuse for the grass’s patchiness!

Seriously, though: at least you’re doing the seeding in a methodical way. I attacked my front yard through carpet-shrub bombing all at once (well, over a week), and I’m realizing that a slow, deliberate plan would have possibly been better…

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