@kenji: "So I'm up on the porch smoking a fag and I peer at my front lawn. Looks 
like shit. Now that it's meteorlogical Spring I'm thinking about the 
upcoming season of lawn care and if it's worth the effort.
the goal would be to have grass where there are currently bald spots to 
keep the incidence of tracking mud and dirt into the front hallway of 
the house.
Without getting into my lawn's specifics, suffice it to say I have grass 
but about 40 percent of the total area that should be covered ends up by 
mid July pretty much bare. I plant new seed in April that "takes" but 
then turns to shit by mid july.
soil samples to some "lab":, then treat the soil, then plant?"
    @kenji: " "Gregory Morrow" 
<quote>
the two boys across the street from me have a nice lawn. Theirs is nice 
because because they're house faces East, whereas mine faces West."
    @oozenet: "<quote>
Half-a-Japanese-Rock-Garden
trent
"This user has a pattern of behaviour in the usenet group chi.forsale
that borders on abusive.""
    @oozenet: "<quote>
Opium poppies, coca plants, and agave cacti.
trent
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    @barbiegee: "<quote>
the fact he's worrying about his lawn at all is very white of him... so 
white, it hurts, actually.
but, if you're really serious about this, you can always start by 
contacting these folks:
<<url>
I think they do soil testing.  There are diy kits, but why bother if you 
can get a professional to do it?"
    @kenji: "<quote>
interesting update.
this year I said fuck it. I didn't scrape the shit out of the bare 
topsoil to get rid of weird non-grass plants. I didn't plant new seed, 
and cover with nutrient enhanced topsoil. I just let it be to see what 
would happen. All I did was get a bottle of 9 dollar scotts liquid shit 
and spray it on there every two weeks. I also just water every couple of 
days. I pulled just the dandelion plants.
Welp....I've got plush lawn, here in late July. From 10 feet it looks 
really nice. From 20 feet it looks like nice rough at a golf course. If 
you get 4 feet from it you see it's not just grass plants. There's all 
kinds of various creeping other plants mixed in with the grass. But it's 
all green with no bare spots and the dogs don't get their paws muddy 
when it's raining or wet outside.
I think what I'm going to do from now until the gras goes dormant is 
take a black dirt mixture of grass seed, blackdirt, manure and moss and 
top coat it every week. Especially in the creeping plant parts of the 
lawn. Kinda like what they use when you are on a tee  to drive and you 
take a divot out that can't be replaced. You just take a handfulof the 
mixture and tamp it down with your foot where the spot is."
    @gregorymorrow: "<quote>
Get RID of the grass...put gravel all around and spray - paint it
green...I hear that's what SCOTT does...
Best
Greg"
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