Lazy Gardening

It Finally Begins to Biodegrade Almost 2 years ago, I covered the front yard with jute mesh to keep the grass seeds from blowing away or...

A meadow is grass with wildflowers ...and I have it!  At least in parts of the lawn, if you squint just right, I have fluffy clumps of grass...

Just a quick update on establishing the buffalo and blue grama lawn. It looked like this in early February, right after I spread the jute me...

This is another " Oops, should have thought a bit longer " post. I realized too late that there was a slower but less work way to ...

Instead of waiting until nights are reliably above 60 before seeding, I'm pretending that the grass seed is in Kansas and experiencing a...

Lawn Upholstering?  Jute erosion control mesh is not burlap - it's a fabric woven with extremely coarse yarn and large holes.  The mes...

We had heat-tolerant buffalo grass in Phoenix and loved the low maintenance and toughness of it.  The landscape plan in New Mexico includes...

 It's Fluffy!  It's Green! I came back after a summer's absence to find that the lawn had not missed my care.  This is  what d...

Another Experiment This is a total experiment ... I over-seeded the buffalo grass with another low-care native grass from t...

Where's the Grass-rogaine? The buffalo grass is prone to develop bare spots, at least in this area with the watering schedule I k...

Adding Amendments Buffalo grass does not need or tolerate much fertilizer. Mine was last fertilized when we planted the plugs in ...

De-thatching the lawn It's time for a makeover and spa week for the lawn. Five years after planting, some bald patches had d...

I haven't updated about the buffalo grass lawn because there hasn't been much to update.  It grows, it gets watered, it needs very l...

It's tough being on the bleeding edge of lawn management. For example, how long should I run my lawn sprinklers to water my buffalo gras...

Happy birthday to my buffalo grass lawn! It was one year old on Sunday, and a long way from the sea of mud we had last year. This coming ye...

After a very rainy, almost freeze-free winter, it's warming up. The low temperatures have been mostly in the 50s and the highs in the mi...

The grass is now mostly khaki, not green. We had a 1-night cold spell and the temperature dropped to just below freezing. Apparently that...

As the title says, I'm still waiting for the grass to go dormant. Daytime temperatures have been in the 70s and nights about 50 for the ...

Six months into this experiment, I'm happy with the buffalo grass's performance. So are the quail. There are still some questions ab...

This is the post where I point out my errors, hoping you won't commit the same ones. The weather, and some lack of foresight on my part,...