Third time is a charm

The grubs got me good. The front lawn was looking terrible. I suspected it was grubs a long time ago and even bought some grub-ex, but failed to put it down earlier in the year.

But now is the time of year to prep for next year, so I figured I would rake out the dead stuff and fill in the patches. Well, I raked out more than just a few patches. My front lawn looks like a bald guy with a bad hair transplant. There are just tufts of grass left and a lot of bare spots. Ugh.

It was a ton of work. My arms and back are killing me. I raked off easily 3/4 of the lawn. Even stuff that looked green was coming up because the grubs got enough of the roots. Oh well.  I need a bit more dirt to fill in the sinking trench one more time anyway.

I threw down some of the grub-ex stuff and then watered it to spread it.  Hopefully it’ll kill off the grubs even though now is not the ideal time to put that stuff down. I’ll have to do it again in the late spring, although there aren’t much roots left for them to eat anyway.

Next weekend I hope to overseed and throw some straw down to protect it.

Maybe next year I’ll finally have a nice front lawn.

I’m still putting the blame on Cathi and Emily for the 30 bales of hay. I think grubs were living in that hay.