Bermuda Lawn Sanding Progress w/ pics
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My Experiences Leveling My Lawn with Sand
Comments (137)Please allow me to explain some facts about the different types of sand. As a contractor and someone who has worked in a concrete plant you better know what type of snd you need for the job you are doing. With that said lets began. Sand is either dug up in a quarry or dredged from a pond, lake or a sand quarry that they hit a spring in and filled with water. All commercial sand is washed so it can be graded for size and type. You have to go out and dig up your own if you want to get unwashed sand ( which is not recommended for landscaping ) to be used as fill sand or what we call sandbox sand. First thing to fall out of the washer is mason sand. Next is concrete sand followed by fill sand which contains some clay. Next is gravel base and is made-up of lots of clay and small gravel.This is what you typically find on ball diamonds and clay tennis courts or as a base for a gravel driveway or path through your garden. It can be packed down so hard you would think it was concrete with a colored dye in it untill it rains. Dogs, cats, kids and husbands get in quite a bit of trouble when it rains because of this stuff. Next is pea gravel. This can be used to cover the gravel base or partly fill holes like lateral lines where you need good drainage or placed under downspouts to keep the water from making a canyon of you lawn and it gives it a decorative look. Just remember to use something to keep the gravel in place or your mower becomes a machine gun when you mow around It. A lot of people use it in flower beds and around the base of trees too for decorative look. Rock gardens look neat and pea gravel mixed with river rock works well for this. Next comes river rock. Used as I just mentioned in place of the pea gravel ecept not on lateral lines or sewer pipes or any other underground lines and pipes. Although it does work well for drip irrigation or soaker hose. Then the last is river stone. Good for decorative landscaping and filling in wash outs or anywhere you need the water not to erode the ground beneath them....See MoreBermuda Lawn Progress Pics
Comments (8)Did you even look at that website? There is one local sod farm growing palmetto in your own state. TW will probably tell you that seeds for shady area is a waste... I am 98% sure... St augustine is best grass for shady area and pictures you showed looked shady but you never said just how much full sun throughout the day. Bermuda do best with 8 hours of full sun. It just seems a bit too shady for bermuda lawn. Also TW might tell you that Princess 77 may be a bad idea... not much of cold tolerant.... Just how cold does it usually get in the winter in Jackson, MS?...See Moretrying to repair bermuda lawn, I need help...
Comments (34)I've been trying to mow about twice a week. If there is one thing I've learned over the past couple of months it's that waiting too long between mowing is one of the worst things you can do with bermuda. Most of my neighbors pay people to mow their yards, so it's always done at most once a week, or once every two weeks so their yards always look scalped and brown. I'm really looking forward to the leveling next year because I know that the lower I mow the thicker the grass will become. I was talking to my next door neighbor a few weeks ago and he said that the guy who lived in my house before it foreclosed hardly ever mowed the grass and never did any kind of lawn maintenance. This would explain why the grass was so patchy and thin and also why there were two large areas in the yard that had no grass which resulted in serious erosion of the top layer of clay/soil and I have a brown driveway to show for it. BTW samlawn, I noticed that we live in the same part of Cobb Co. :)...See MoreBermuda Lawn Establishment
Comments (23)Your lawn looks much like my backyard did originally. I seeded it with Triangle, bought on line. I first scalped it, aerated it then used a groomer (aka power rake with delta knives) to break up the plugs. Bot are in the picture. Spread starter fert and seed, then rolled it. After 6 weeks I was cutting regularly. [IMG]http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/wrager46/2010lawn008-1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/wrager46/2010lawn006.jpg[/IMG] Then this happened: [IMG]http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/wrager46/09Flood002.jpg[/IMG] So then I did this with a pallet of Tif Grand: [IMG]http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/wrager46/Spring2011009.jpg[/IMG]...See Moredchall_san_antonio
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