Location : Massachusetts near Cape Cod.
We are moving into this house in a couple weeks. I took this picture last night. Obviously this is the backyard, but the front looks exactly the same with the big brown spots, patchiness, weeds galore, etc. It’s our first house so I have zero experience with lawn care and don’t even know where to begin! Can anyone offer tips, or maybe a series of YouTube videos on where to begin for what feels like a total lawn refurb?
by PatheticLion
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Now:
Weed n feed.
Water.
Grass seed.
Spring:
Rake.
Weed n Feed.
Water.
Your place is gonna look absolutely fantastic at the end of the renovation.
I would mow short, dethatch, bag everything, aerate, lightly topsoil, seed with elite seeds, press down with a roller, water frequently. Go through some YouTube lawn renovation videos and subreddit guides here.
This is a big yard. Is it irrigated? If so:
1) I would aerate the shit out of it
2) throw down seed aggressively – maybe a nice super turf blend from united seed
3) put down starter fert
4) water 3x a day for 2 weeks
5) mow mow mow
6) in spring put down a preemergent
A good lawn consists of
75% of a lawn is irrigation.
15% is fertilizer and mow height
10% is soil management
**(edit… post says where it is. I am an idiot.
I can’t help fix that lawn but really want to know where you can buy a house with this size of a lawn
Don’t forget to add goalposts at each end because that looks like it’s a big as a football field.
Leave as is….rent house to movie studio to film a horror movie. That house and land are perfect for it.
Rip wallet.
Damn man.. just lay sod with the second mortgage.
You need a soil test. All these solutions people are offering don’t mean squat without knowing the physical and chemical properties of the soil.
Start at the road and work back from there.
Hot damn, unless this picture is deceiving then this lawn is absolutely MASSIVE. Good advice in this thread so far but I would temper expectations of the entire thing being a lush green playfield unless you’re ready to sink and absolutely insane amount of time and money into dealing with it.
Also it’s going to be next to impossible keep green year round unless it has sprinklers and then the water bill will be massive unless you’re in some agricultural area with cheap irrigation water.
Personally I would carve out a small bit of grass near to the house to keep up as a lawn, and do minimal care with the rest just to keep it looking nice
That’s a big yard! What is your experience level and how comfortable are you with running small landscape machinery, like aerators, thatchers, top dressers?
Such a cute house, congrats
I would call a reputable landscape company. Inatall an irrigation system and install local sod.
Last time I recommended a yt channel I got balled out by mods (I wasn’t aware of some shady background of the person). Anyhoo, to be on the safe side now, just do a search on yt for lawn care or lawn reno’s and you’ll find endless resources.
To set your expectation tho, hope you know it might take more than a year. Good news is, you’re in time for fall overseeding! Congrats on the home!
Start with an intercom system
That’s not a front lawn that’s a freaking front acreage.
Texas chainsaw massacre vibes.