Gee, look what I got....a brand new walk, new curb, and patch of new pavement. To complete this look, some new sod which they (the city) finally laid yesterday (this process has been going on at least a couple of weeks now).
Anyway that front part of the lawn is pretty dead looking thanks to the abuse it's had to go through (see the dirt they just threw around for some reason) but you get the idea. Around the boulevard, along both sides of the walks along the entire front and part way up my walk, the sod is totally different from the existing grass. It makes a stunning border if you like that sort of two tone thing but I don't.
Does anyone know what the chances are of it eventually blending in? Should I start asking for ideas for border plantings before it takes root and just pull the stuff? You can't see it well in the picture, but where my front lawn by the house is, is still quite alive and green but it's a totally different green and texture than the sod. The picture doesn't show it well I'm afraid.
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Yes I considered it but since some posts thought it might blend in I left it. As of now, it's waiting it out and seeing what happens in the spring.
Have you conssidered a curbside garden? I'm considering this for our front sidewalk is I can guarantee that it isn't going to look like poop...I hate grass at the best of times.
Thanks, I think...I guess I can console myself that leaving it is less work than trying to plant something new (and more work around here is the last thing I need) and that the grass is like this for the whole street so I am not alone.
DBD, I sympathize with you since we've had our neighbourhood roads reconstructed, they had made some mess of the boulevards and between cutting up lines of cable for telephone and TV/internet, we've had our lawn disturbed several times and even though the roads are complete we still have an upset boulevard, thanks to Rogers cable for finding some main cable broken and had to dig it up again, and we're not finished yet with the telephone cable either, at the moment we're sharing a line with neighbours.
My DH keeps asking me if I called them and I told him I refuse to talk to these people again.....I have a lot of stories to share about Bell but don't want to bore you.
So, DBD, don't worry about the lawn, like someone said soon it will be covered with snow and hopefully next Spring you can seed and cover with topsoil and hopefully will spring back up.
I opted to seed the lawn instead of sod mainly because of cost and now we have had 3 days of the worst rain ever and my seed is drowning. I think I would just put some seed on it and it will blend in it may take a while but next year it will all look the same.
On our street part of the lawns (city owned) by the street were gouged pretty badly with the snow plow. We had an abnormal amount of snow fall last winter, so the plow passed often.
The city came with a truck full of soil and grass seed. They threw a few shovels of soil on all the gouged spots, then threw seed and left.
Those spots grew the tallest weeds with little grass in sight. We weeded it out added grass seed + white clover seed, watered the areas often and it is coming along slowly. :)
I wouldn't worry too much. Soon it will be covered with snow anyway!
You can reseed the bad spot, but I don't know if it will grow in Fall. Next Spring is when you can give it serious treatment with fertilizer, seeds and watering.
We had a nice from lawn that went to the paved road. Unfortunately, our driveway went over a culvert (as the whole street) and so it had a ditch, nicely grassed with a gradual slope, in it before it reached the road. The city decided to deepen the ditches ( their property is part of our lawn) and than just threw grass seed. It has been 3 years and we are still trying to get it to blend in to our lawn. Weeds grew up, it was terrible and I did complain and they came and thru more grass seed. Every year we have been putting out own grass seed, fertilizing, etc and it will come back. They salt our roads in the winter and this doesn't help. Also the ditch has to be cut crossways now instead of just straight, because of the steepness. UGH!!! UGH!! Keep watering throw down grass seed and it will blend in. At least you got sod around the edges. But do call the city. I guess we just got use to our lawn the way it was and our neighbors on each side are going thru the same thing.
DBD it will blend, keep throwing down grass seed, watering and it will eventually be great. It is alot better than what we started with.