Comments on: How To Grow Grass, Fast! http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/ Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:15:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tracey http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-28505 Tracey Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:27:03 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-28505 :dance: This is great information. I wonder if it will work on a large scale. My front yard has some grass right along the front of the house, but the rest of the front yard is just chickweek and crab grass. I guess I'll have to break down and use pesticides on that to kill it before I put the grass in. :( My back yard only has a few clumps of grass here and there. Not a pretty site. I've been spreading rabbit manure all over my backyard, hoping to make it a nice sandy lome. I really want to make both my front and back yard green with grass. I will try your method on my front yard, and just add grass seed to my back yard and see which does better. I'll take pictures of before and after and see IF I can even get grass to grow. Thanks for the information. This I will try! :dance: This is great information. I wonder if it will work on a large scale.
My front yard has some grass right along the front of the house, but the rest of the front yard is just chickweek and crab grass. I guess I’ll have to break down and use pesticides on that to kill it before I put the grass in. :(
My back yard only has a few clumps of grass here and there. Not a pretty site. I’ve been spreading rabbit manure all over my backyard, hoping to make it a nice sandy lome. I really want to make both my front and back yard green with grass. I will try your method on my front yard, and just add grass seed to my back yard and see which does better. I’ll take pictures of before and after and see IF I can even get grass to grow.
Thanks for the information. This I will try!

]]> By: JLB http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-28035 JLB Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:46:19 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-28035 All you naysayers:I saw a similar post on another blog and it showed the same results in two weeks time. Unfortunately, I cannot locate it but glad I happened upon here. I do note one difference...the other blog's poster mixed the seed with potting soil and then put it down as opposed to a layer of potting soil, a layer of seeds, and then another layer of potting soil. I think I like the sound of this one simply because there seems to be more protection and faster growth although this could be based on the products used, soil condition, weather, etc. I like the idea of the "seed sandwich". Thank you for posting this. Also, thinking of it as a potting soil/seed sandwich makes it easier to remember the steps. The potting soil is the bread and the seeds are the filling, peanut butter, ham, etc. ....you get my drift. Try it before you say it's bogus. What's the worse that can happen? you actually grow some grass? AW MAN!!! THAT's TERRIBLE!!!!! LOL!!!!!! All you naysayers:I saw a similar post on another blog and it showed the same results in two weeks time. Unfortunately, I cannot locate it but glad I happened upon here. I do note one difference…the other blog’s poster mixed the seed with potting soil and then put it down as opposed to a layer of potting soil, a layer of seeds, and then another layer of potting soil. I think I like the sound of this one simply because there seems to be more protection and faster growth although this could be based on the products used, soil condition, weather, etc. I like the idea of the “seed sandwich”. Thank you for posting this. Also, thinking of it as a potting soil/seed sandwich makes it easier to remember the steps. The potting soil is the bread and the seeds are the filling, peanut butter, ham, etc. ….you get my drift. Try it before you say it’s bogus. What’s the worse that can happen? you actually grow some grass? AW MAN!!! THAT’s TERRIBLE!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

]]> By: Leanne http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-27287 Leanne Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:07:59 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-27287 Funny, isn't it? It depends on the seed, I think. I would water daily, just moisten the soil really until the grass appears. Then check the soil, make sure it's shaded, and throw a mist over it every other evening at dusk. In my experience, once the grass has filled in enough that it needs to be cut, I let the rain take care of it (unless there's a drought, then water on watering days). Also, I'd ask Brent. :friends: Funny, isn’t it?

It depends on the seed, I think. I would water daily, just moisten the soil really until the grass appears. Then check the soil, make sure it’s shaded, and throw a mist over it every other evening at dusk. In my experience, once the grass has filled in enough that it needs to be cut, I let the rain take care of it (unless there’s a drought, then water on watering days).

Also, I’d ask Brent. :friends:

]]> By: Becky http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-27286 Becky Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:01:50 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-27286 What's up with the crazies saying this is a different house? Seriously that's comical. Both pictures were taken from the EXACT same spot (kinda eerily so, I think we need to talk about that). Hey skeptics, check the big tree you can see over the roof of the neighbor's house even though it has an addition!!! Same tree! Whatever... not worth it, right? :brickwall: Anyhow, I wanted to ask how long you have to keep baby grass on a watering schedule? Obviously we're getting plenty of rain at this point, but the hot weather is coming (right? RIGHT?!!) and I don't want to kill it if it needs to be watered all summer on the first season. You know I have lots of new grass and live in a town with strict watering restrictions. Thanks much!! What’s up with the crazies saying this is a different house? Seriously that’s comical. Both pictures were taken from the EXACT same spot (kinda eerily so, I think we need to talk about that). Hey skeptics, check the big tree you can see over the roof of the neighbor’s house even though it has an addition!!! Same tree! Whatever… not worth it, right? :brickwall:

Anyhow, I wanted to ask how long you have to keep baby grass on a watering schedule? Obviously we’re getting plenty of rain at this point, but the hot weather is coming (right? RIGHT?!!) and I don’t want to kill it if it needs to be watered all summer on the first season. You know I have lots of new grass and live in a town with strict watering restrictions.

Thanks much!!

]]> By: Ardent Garden » Blog Archive » Grass Growing!! http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-26589 Ardent Garden » Blog Archive » Grass Growing!! Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:40:49 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-26589 [...] those of you who ended up here hoping to find out how to grow grass, you can visit my dear friend Leanne over at intricateart.com for that! She has a pretty good method that she’s been using successfully over the years! All [...] [...] those of you who ended up here hoping to find out how to grow grass, you can visit my dear friend Leanne over at intricateart.com for that! She has a pretty good method that she’s been using successfully over the years! All [...]

]]> By: Leanne http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-25836 Leanne Fri, 08 May 2009 11:50:39 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-25836 LOL - Tony, I mentioned that. Sorry you missed it. (Have a peek right above the "After" photo!) LOL – Tony, I mentioned that. Sorry you missed it.

(Have a peek right above the “After” photo!)

]]> By: tony http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-25832 tony Fri, 08 May 2009 04:50:29 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-25832 :no: :jawdrop: i am sorry to say that. now on the other hand I know tghat you did grow grass because you did help me with my sometime back I just will not tell you who this is. but Yes you do know me and I know you :no: :jawdrop: i am sorry to say that. now on the other hand I know tghat you did grow grass because you did help me with my sometime back I just will not tell you who this is. but Yes you do know me and I know you

]]> By: tony http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-25831 tony Fri, 08 May 2009 04:45:10 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-25831 Sorry but the trees are not the same, nore is the house across the street Sorry but the trees are not the same, nore is the house across the street

]]> By: Leanne http://intricateart.com/how-to-grow-grass-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-25813 Leanne Thu, 07 May 2009 18:21:32 +0000 http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-grow-grass-fast/#comment-25813 Ed, perhaps you missed this part: <blockquote>The first photo was taken in 2004, just after we’d had a room addition put on the house and were left with a huge mound of dirt. We left the mound for several years and planted on it, using it as part of the landscape. In July 2007, we transplanted everything and leveled the mound, and started growing grass. The summer of 2008 it was patchy and young, still filling in. Now, April 2009, you can see it’s thick and lush and very, very green.</blockquote> So, to answer your question, no. July 2007 is when I first put seed down, summer of 2008 (last year) was really dry so none of our grass really looked well, it was dormant for much of the summer, but looked pretty mature by fall when it cooled off. This spring, April 2009, it emerged thick and lush. Thank you, we're quite proud of our yard, definitely more so than if we had just put sod in. Ed, perhaps you missed this part:

The first photo was taken in 2004, just after we’d had a room addition put on the house and were left with a huge mound of dirt. We left the mound for several years and planted on it, using it as part of the landscape. In July 2007, we transplanted everything and leveled the mound, and started growing grass. The summer of 2008 it was patchy and young, still filling in. Now, April 2009, you can see it’s thick and lush and very, very green.

So, to answer your question, no. July 2007 is when I first put seed down, summer of 2008 (last year) was really dry so none of our grass really looked well, it was dormant for much of the summer, but looked pretty mature by fall when it cooled off. This spring, April 2009, it emerged thick and lush.

Thank you, we’re quite proud of our yard, definitely more so than if we had just put sod in.

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