Backyard renovation 4 '15

One third of the sod is set, 2nd third of the area is being prepped. 

 At the end of March, the crew who maintains the landscaping for our HOA decided to spray a broad-leaf weedkiller on all of our lawns. The chemicals promptly started killing all the annual rye we had put in our back yard last winter.  We had put the rye in last November, when the HOA's contractors had killed all the grass in the back with  chlorine they used to wash the houses with before painting them.  It was too late in the year to purchase any sod, so we put down the annual rye to cover the mud and keep the soil from eroding away. ( see posts from November 10, and 27 for Annual rye grass project)

 Now with the rye grass is gone, we were faced with a big mud hole again.  The HOA steadfastly refused to do anything at all about it.  Fortunately the local nursery has just started to get sod in stock.  BJ and I took matter in our own hands  and turned over all the soil in the original grass area, leveled it off, and set out strips of St Augustine grass.  It took us three days and three trips to the nursery to get the area done,  but we are now looking at a lush lawn once again.

Two thirds of the sad is set and last third of the area prepped