I could be mistaken about moles but don't they eat insects? That does not mean they are not ruining your garden, but it might make it easier to treat the lawn. If you can kill the insects, the moles should go away. Being organic my first line of defense would be to use beneficial nematodes to kill the insects. Now is a good time of year for BN. The late winter/early spring rainy days are the more specific time to apply. BN like moist soil. If you are willing to use chemical insecticides, I can't help you with brands or apps but someone will come along. You can lay sod any time of year. You might wait until the spring grass pops to see what you have on the slope. If you don't do anything it will become weeds. Still if you treat weeds like they were turf (watering, mowing, and fertilizing), you will have a nicer looking lawn than those who continually spray the weeds to kill them. Then do your seeding earlier in the fall than you did last year to get the turf a little more established. What brand of preemergent did you use? Some are more forgiving than others.

I wouldn't worry too much about it - the flowers will likely just drape down from the top. This is an old picture (2010) but shows a group 3 that hadn't been pruned hard in 7 years! I took this picture shortly before we cut everything off the arbour in order to remove the beautiful but vicious (those thorns!!) New Dawn rose that shared the arbour with it... (The odd angle in the photo is because DH took the picture while standing on a stepladder so he could see the top of the arbour too....) I like the 'abundant' look so don't do the recommended hard pruning - I just take off obviously dead stuff and maybe neaten up a bit. This is the same arbour from the other side last summer: And the top of the same arbour, viewed from the pantry window last summer!

You could have a couple things that stand out to me. I'm no Dr nor am I pretending to be. But I am diabetic so they only allowed me two pregnancies for health reasons. I had rough pregnancies & diabetics have a high rate of still birth, babies birth defects, & dangers to the mother. They also have large babies so they induced both labors 2 weeks to 1 month early. After my 2nd baby in 1979, I was 21 they gave me a tubligation. I didn't have too many issues with my periods after that in the immediate future. As time went on I started having horrible cramping, nausea, irregular periods, heavy periods, bloating, fatigue, constipation, ER visits thinking my appendix was bad or I had gall stones, on & on. The pain would come, I would break in a sweat & drive to the fam Dr I had on my HMO at the time so he would believe me. This was in 1992. He would tell me it's all in my head, or it was PMS, prescribe me tranquilizers & antidepressants. I would just cry. Finally I told my husband I'm going to my GYN. I don't need a referral, & maybe it's female & not a stomach issue at all. Sure enough it was endometriosis. To be sure he did a laparoscopy. So at about 32 I had a total hysterectomy. I asked about leaving the ovaries, he told me no because he would just have to go back in later and take them out. When they went in there the endometriosis was on everything, even on my esophagus. Estrogen causes the sores to ooze and seep. Making you sick. But after I felt better. Then 18 mos later some symptoms started coming back. He went back in and from the different surgeries I had developed scar tissue or adhesions. They're like spaghetti. They were there at the hysterectomy, but they cleaned them out. This time they were partially blocking my bowels. You can die from that. He cleaned them out really good. Did some cartorizing. I'm 59 now & haven't had a problem since. It's been wonderful. Sorry for the lengthy comment. Hope it helps. Sandra

You may have thought I was kidding about the Hunter Orange, I'm not. There are three houses on my street that have Hunter Orange (or close to it) front doors and they look good. It gives the house an anomaly to stimulate the senses, enhance the experience of the architecture, and create topic of conversation for first time visitors. Too many times houses are ordinary and mundane. Your grand space inside your home needs the proper introduction, do something outside the box for the color of the front door.