Over the past month our lawn has gone from looking quite scary and ugly, to beautiful! It was a personal choice to make sure that our grass was looking amazing and presentable. I’m actually grateful that we don’t have to deal with a HOA who would be on us about our grass. I’ve heard nightmare stories about people getting into legal trouble over their lawns. Thankfully, one read of this blog post and you’ll see that’s rarely the case. Nevertheless, I wanted my lawn to look amazing. I love the look of lush green winter grass. We happen to be extremely lucky and have our next-door neighbor be a landscaper that takes care of our front yard. He is amazing and does our yard for a steal! If you don’t and your yard looks like ours did, it would be a good idea to research one and call them up. If you live in Wisconsin, contact a Madison Landscaping company to sort your lawn out or a company that is more local to you. As I’ve mentioned before, you might remember our grass looking like this in a post I did a couple of weeks ago:
It has been a little over three weeks now, and this is the end result. Keep in mind that I did not edit these photos at all, and we know that I do not have a nice fancy camera {one day, one day}. I did round out the edges though- because, well, I think that just looks pretty rounded and all:)
If you have never had your lawn switched over to winter grass, it can be a pain. Luckily our neighbor does ours with the same type of idealseed bulk grass seed that they use on racecourses, rather than the manure. I don’t know if I could handle manure, the smell and everything. Also, we let the pups play out front most evenings, and theres no way they could go out there with manure. {I bet they would love it, but I wouldn’t so much!}
The process:
- Mow your lawn down to as low as you can get it
- Let it dry out for about a week {turning off your sprinklers all together}
- Place the seed on and water like crazy for the next week
I seriously am dreading our water bill:/ Of course though, it didn’t go as planned for us. We had about 3 days of good “drying out” time and then it rained pretty hard for 3 days. Which lead us to needing them to come back and mow it really low all over again, and then wait another week for it to dry out again. Nothing can ever go as planned, can it!? BUT the end result is just so beautiful,soft, and luxurious. It’s totally not weird to call your grass luxurious, is it?! If I’m being honest, although I really love it (and don’t want to jinx it), if we had to do this all over again, and didn’t have such an amazing neighbour I think I would have just said lets switch to artifial grass (like the ones found on prestige-lawns.co.uk), at least that way once it’s all been put down, we don’t really have to worry about it, and it probably would have made our life a lot easier. But at the minute, I am loving what we’ve had done.
Does everyone out there with grass do the winter grass thing? If so, have you had as great of an outcome as us??
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| This photo is edited just a little, but thats our house:) |
<3,
Adri
It looks good! we just did our grass too (in mesa) well…my husband did 😉 he’s been very proud how it turned out, not sure I have the heart to tell him yours looks better! kudos
Wowzer! That looks amazing. I would say luxurious is a good word to use, haha.
Wow this is beautiful. I had to show my husband. We just had our lawn aerated and seeded, but will definitely do this next year. I do a Tuesday’s Tip on my blog and this would be perfect. Do you mind if I link to your blog? Love your blog by the way too. Your house is too cute.
Krista- thanks so much! good luck with it next year. Of course I dont mind. That would be great actaully. Thanks so much!
<3,
Adri
love the look of your grass what kind of grass seed did you use i have winter grass over here at the sunshine state and would love to have your grass
thankyou and i love your blog
geneva
Geneva,
Thanks so much! The grass is called Rye grass! Hope that helps