[PHXCobra]

My parents house is in desperate need of some work. They will be hosting a baby shower in a little more than 2 weeks and my mom wants a greener lawn than they currently have. There are some trouble spots where nothing is growing, spots where the now dead perrenial rye took over and there is no Bermuda left. It's likely over 3k square feet of grass area



















These pictures were taken around 5:30pm local time. It gets a decent amount of shade thanks to the neighbors overgrown stuff, their own trees, and the shape/orientation of the house and lot.

This weekend I am going to come over, mow it down a little lower than the landscaping company has been doing, hit it with a dethatching take in some spots, fix the sprinkler system to get better coverage. Also planning on throwing down a 15-15-15 because I can't remener a single time in their 18 years of living here that it's EVER been fertilized.

Do i have any hope of making it more presentable by the baby shower?

Here's a pic of my sister-in-law (the pregnant one), my mom, and my wife on my lawn on mother's day this year.

 

[J_nick]

As said before the lawn journey is more of a marathon than a sprint. 2 weeks just isn't a lot of time. The steps you mentioned sound good to me but only looking 2 weeks ahead you probably won't see much change. The lawn will love the Nitrogen, if the LCO can keep up with the mowing without scalping it will likely fill in those dead spots within a coulpe months.

 

[PHXCobra]

As said before the lawn journey is more of a marathon than a sprint. 2 weeks just isn't a lot of time. The steps you mentioned sound good to me but only looking 2 weeks ahead you probably won't see much change. The lawn will love the Nitrogen, if the LCO can keep up with the mowing without scalping it will likely fill in those dead spots within a coulpe months.

Spent several hours at their place today. Took the dethatching rake for a spin and got a lot of the dead stuff out. Didn't do the whole yard but probably about half. It was desperately needed.

Also got the sprinkler situation more sorted. The dry areas that were just dirt were getting zero water. Got some gear driven rotors and they are getting plenty now. Threw down some 15-15-15 for about 1lb of nitrogen per 1k and told them to keep up with the water.

2 weeks isn't a ton of time for the spots to fill in and I told them not to expect that. But now that the Bermuda should get more sunlight in the problem areas and water is actually getting where it should, on top of the desperately needed fertilizer, should get some pretty good green up and spreading.