Armed with a shovel, hack saw, snippers, and yard waste bin I enter battle.
I never know if I'll make it back safely as I'm not only fighting the pricker bushes, but also spiders as big as my face, and snakes lying low in the overgrowth.
As I saw, dig, cut, and pull out weeds the backyard begins to resemble a yard and not a wild jungle Tarzan or Mowgli would live in.
I was nearly convinced someone in the past had a vision for the yard. There are remains of a patio and an arch in one corner, possibly a nice place to read on a summer afternoon?
It would be if not for the vines, weeds, dead limbs and raspberry vines everywhere. I feel bad ripping out trees and bushes someone may have planted. But, when seven different types of bushes are growing in the same one square foot, it's time for them to come out.
I have ripped out bushes with my bare hands. I have dug out trees and pulled vines out by their roots. My blisters have blisters, and yet, the backyard looks FABULOUS!
Well, besides the dead grass, bare spots, some crazy dandelion weed things growing EVERYWHERE! The front yard looks like death.
I've had a yard for about five months and I killed it!
I'm a murderer!
Luckily, the person I found at Scotts.com was very helpful in telling me what I had to do to fix the yard I have somehow killed.
She assured me I'm not the first person to kill their first lawn in the house they have lived in less than a year.
Nice to know I'm not alone.
After viewing the yard through my webcam the lovely Scotts.com lady told me exactly what I needed. Surprisingly, all I needed was Scotts products. Some fertilizer, some topsoil, and some grass seed.
Not to bad.
So we will see how good I am at making things grow, because we all know how good I am at chopping things down.
