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Checking in on the Sod

March 5, 2014

How is the sod doing? Um, amazing. No, seriously, it’s doing super well. And I am SO HAPPY about that.

But first, we also tackled two smaller projects. Chris laid the small concrete patch. So it went from looking like this

To looking like this

And the area under the deck went from this

To this

Not quite done as it still needs about 3 more bags of gravel, but still, much less likely to become infested by weeds.

Now. About that grass…

After getting it all installed we followed the care instructions to a T. That required a lot of watering at first, but like I wrote about last time, we were really lucky that we got a ton of rain right after, so we only had to water it half as much as was required. Yay! After 10 days it was time to start watering only once a day and cutting it. And it did need a little bit of a trim

For the next week it got watered once a week. And then next week it went down to every other week. We’ve actually been able to turn off the sprinklers from time to time as well because it’s been raining on and off for the last couple of weeks. So that’s awesome.

On Monday I headed out again for another mow because it was looking pretty shaggy

And after the mowing it looks damn gorgeous

Remember what it was looking like not too long ago?

This is a much better sight to see

Oh, and the Cherry Blossom?

Not too bad either. I don’t want to say, “Go away rain,” because we have a horrible drought going on, but I am itching to get to play on it with Zoe. Let’s just have about 2 GIANT storms, and then lots of sunshine 🙂

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Comments

  1. sarah @ stp haus says

    March 5, 2014 at 9:08 PM

    I cannot even begin to tell you how insanely jealous I am. Looks great!

  2. curtnance says

    March 6, 2014 at 6:48 AM

    Just found your blog – and you two and I are cut from the same cloth! Love it – curt

  3. Heather says

    March 6, 2014 at 9:27 AM

    It's so thick and lush, like Tom Selleck's mustache!

  4. meryl rose says

    March 7, 2014 at 6:07 AM

    I actually can't quite believe how well it's taken, and I think Heather has it right on – Tom Selleck's mustache has some serious competition 🙂

Oh, hello there. We're Chris and Meryl and we're renovating home in Oakland, CA. Chris is the handy, knowledgeable builder and I'm his slightly inappropriate assistant. We've got 2 helpers - Zoe is 2 and Merritt arrived in June of 2015. Spurred by our love of renovating our own home we started a handyman, design and organizing business and now that we're both self employed we're busier than ever, but we love it!

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