Scotts to the Rescue

During the next couple of days I researched everything I could.  There are great articles and videos available at www.ehow.com and at www.scotts.com. The information here ranges from seeding, watering, fertilizing, mowing and much more.  Scotts, in addition, has a consultation line you can call. So I did. When you call you have the option of signing up for their newsletter that is tailored (so they say) for what you need to do for your lawn. 

They told me that for my lawn and its present condition I need to add Scotts Halts ;  this acts as an pre-emergent and controls the weeds before they sprout.  Unfortunately for me the weeds had already taken control of the lawn.  Nonetheless, I felt that I had to add this to start taking control back.  While speaking to my next door neighbor, they also used Halt.  And their lush, thick green grass proves it!

Starting Off..

My grass is part green, brown and part weeds.  Not knowing what in the world to do I went to Lowes and spoke to a Scott's representative on 3/20/2010.  It turns out that I have bermuda grass and it isn't very easy to deal with. Well his advice was to do nothing till the fall.  At that time I should over seed and add some winter guard. I wasn't too happy with that answer so I thought I come back when someone else was around. I couldn't bear to do NOTHING.  Making matters worse was that we didn't have a lawn mower.  The grass and weeds were knee high already. 

Why I Started this Blog

My wife and I moved to Middle Tennessee last fall. For the first time in my life, I've undertaken the responsibility of taking care of our landscaping needs. This will include the typical mowing the lawn, adding fertilizer and beautifying the landscape. I'm sure there are others who are in the same position and many more who were at one point in time. I envision this being a place where we can discuss what we've done to help build our turf. This can include equipment we purchased, the pros and cons of this equipment, the various chemicals we use and how successful our efforts have been. I hope this resource is valuable to everyone and I hope you come back and visit often. Thank you for stopping by.