The area is 24,050 sq ft. It was a cornfield when we built, and after the construction of our house was complete, just weeds growing in. This spring our front was solid yellow from all of the dandelions and I kept telling my wife “don’t worry, August will get here soon enough.” It was painful to see each morning. I started the kill process in July; sprayed it with Glypho 3 separate times.
We had some really rough spots and a lot of settling from drain lines and the electric line underground. I had a crew bring in top soil to get those areas leveled out. This past Saturday my wife, myself and my Dad sowed seed and spread straw on 6k sq ft. Sunday I had a crew of 9 family members come out to help complete the remaining 18k sq ft. We started at 6AM and were done right before 9AM. After a small break my wife and I went out and setup the sprinkler system. We have 10 heads, and I’m pleasantly surprised the coverage we have.
I’m counting Sunday August 28th as my ‘Day 0’ and seed down date. Yesterday starting around 8PM we got several rounds of showers, but no washout!! It was damp this morning and then the sun came out right after noon, so I turned the sprinklers back on for this evening. The long term forecast looks favorable for the next week.
Best of luck to everyone tackling a reno this fall. I’ll post pictures and keep updates coming as I can. Run down of steps taken:
-Sprayed Round up (x3 times)
-Scalped as low as riding mower would go
-Used lawn sweeper to collect as much dead clippings I could (several carts collected)
-Took a few hours when ground was bare and setup/mapped the hoses and sprinkler head locations (farmer stopped and asked “Certainly you’re not watering dead grass??”
)-Aerated a section close to the house that was extremely compacted
-Top soil spread on low spots
-Tenacity app
-Starter Fertilizer Applied
-Seed Down
-Straw Spread
-Water system setup
Seed and straw down!
Few days after initial glyphosate application:
After third round of glyphosate:
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