We’ve been working on the yard next to the barn for a few weeks now. I went out one weekend to rake up the yard as it had a lot of moss growing it in. Much to my dismay moss was apparently the only thing growing in it and it tore up in large sheets to reveal a terrible soil beneath. The weekend we rented a tiller and bough a lot of peat moss to try and improve the soil quality a bit, we tilled it in to a depth of about six inches then planted the seed on top to see how that worked. Being my first lawn I wasn’t sure what to do when we got a last few sputters of winter and the temps dropped below freezing, so spread another round of seed, and again the week after that. So there is now a lot of seed on the ground in the area which has started sprouting. Here are some photo’s of the area in order of earliest to most recent.
Side yard after rolling in the seed
Sprinklers in place helping the seeds germinate
A few weeks after the planting
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