I felt a little strange today. I was mowing the lawn and it started to snow a bit. I fertilized after: the snow and fertilizer looked exactly the same. It was hard to tell where my fertilizer was going and where it was snowing. It wasn’t too bad while I was outside, but now it is sticking to everything. Oh bipolar spring, when will you be happy?

Little sidenote: I read elsewhere about the problems with Scotts. But serisouly, they are the only company that tries to make lawn care easy for homeowners. It would be nice if instead of Scott’s we had horticulturist telling eveyone to mulch their clippings, mow heigh, fertilize properly (Scotts isn’t quite there), and put compost on those bad spots insted of more chemicals.  Or better yet, get rid of the lawn and plant gorgeous underutilized perennials. Even with all that, sometimes lawn does need a traditonal round of fertilizer and Scott’s makes it easy for a homeowner to get it on.

The lawn I’ve inherited hasn’t been fertilized, the clippings have been hauled away, plus it has been extremly overwatered. I finally gave my leached grass some good old fertilizer (and yes it was Scotts). As I was doing it, I thought that it would be cool to put a layer of mulch on instead. But for an acre of lawn, it just isn’t going to happen. (I would love to get rid of a ton of it–one step at a time though.)