Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

So after we took the bushes and tree out last weekend, I put up some chicken wire around that area to keep Annie out since it's pretty muddy. A funny thing about chicken wire, Home Depot calls it "poultry wire". I guess they don't want to leave out geese and ducks.

Anyway, that's been working, Annie's stayed out, and another reason for the fence is since we planned to seed more grass in that area. So tonight we finished breaking up the dirt, mixed in 2 inches of peat moss everywhere, raked everything flat, spread some fertilizer, spread a lot of creeping red fescue grass seed, then another half inch of peat moss.

The last section I did really showed how much the peat moss helps. I had spread it too thin by their recommendations, and some patches ended up with bare dirt after watering over a few weeks time. Well, almost no grass sprouted in the areas without the peat moss. This section has more peat moss and is also more heavily seeded, so I'm hoping for really good results in "2 to 6 weeks".