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replacing sewage pipe ruined yard - what seed to plant?

kirsten27
12 years ago

Hello! I'm in central NC, zone 7. We recently had a sewer line replaced which has covered much of our (previously) decent, though not perfect, lawn with a thick hard cover of clay. How can we recoup the lawn here, as cheaply as possible? My thoughts: cover the clay with some topsoil/compost and mix in, and then plant something. The problem: what? It is about to get really hot here and I'm not going to spend all summer wasting water on fescue or something. What temporary, more heat-tolerant, seed could I plant? I don't care what it looks like; it just needs to keep all the topsoil from washing away until the fall when I can plant real seed. Thanks for your ideas!

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