Yesterday I did the "Weedpopper" for a couple hours - a good arm workout - pulled a couple hundred weeds and aerated the lawn.
Then I tried out the 21 inch 40 volt Greenworks Brushless Electric motor lawnmower - and I moved the front entry lawn. I used up one 6 amp battery that lasted a long time. The 2nd battery was not fully charged - so it didn't last long but I finished what I had planned to mow.
Basically there were areas with taller grass due to the Corn Gluten Meal fertilizer (pre-emergent) - also darker green.
I previously hand-weeded the crabgrass but the Corn Gluten Meal seems to have left areas with no grass as the annual weed-grass did not grow up.
So now I have about 8 pounds of grass seed germinating in "city compost" soil - in our shed - in wheelbarrows. So I will spread that grass seed soil on Saturday.
Plus we have 50 pounds total of grass seed - so we can try just spreading it in without the soil on top. But I can always just get more soil to do more germinating in the shed in the wheel barrows. If I just spread the seed without dethatching first - I'm guessing the birds will feast on the seed. If I dethatch first then hopefully the seed will fall far enough into the grass so the birds don't notice it.
The electric cordless dethatcher is on "back order." So hopefully it will get here by mid-May but it's best to wait to dethatch till the Fall so that the Crabgrass seed is not stirred into the soil for spring germinating.
Also I started germinating a Bee Lawn seed mix - about four pounds. So now today I will dethatch the Creeping Charlie and spread in the Bee Lawn seed mix.
And so then I'm also going to apply a slow release organic iron fertilizer - to help green up the front entry lawn.
So I put it about 10 hours of weeding total so far - with the first three sessions on my knees or squatting - using a hunting knife for precision removal of crabgrass and other weeds.
I try to think of the lawn like a Bonsai Tree. haha.
People also want to plant trees and bushes - so I plan to do that over the long term.
Also I will try out the backpack sprayer today to water in the new soil-seed Bee Lawn mix.
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