Our home builders liked to cut corners here and there, as we have discovered in the last two years since we moved into our house. One thing that they were very up front about was that they only put St. Augustine sod in the front and side yards when they build- the back yards get Bahaia. It wasn't so bad when we first moved in, but it didn't take too long for the two big dogs running around the yard to turn the entire back into a dirt pit. Which means bugs, and dirt tracked through the house. This is a big part of what happened to our carpet (but that is for another post).
Another issue was, they only put the irrigation system in the front and side yards, too. So not only did we have terrible grass back there, but we couldn't even water it easily! So it got drier and drier and more torn up by the dogs. This is what our back yard looked like a year ago:
(taken from Landon's bedroom window)
We rented a sod cutter machine thing from Home Depot and Brad got to work tearing up the "grass" to get ready for our first major home improvement project. It was miserably hot and a very messy job!
On Memorial Day weekend last year, Jaime and Shawn came down and the boys got to work. They irrigated the whole back yard, and we had 4 pallets of St Augustine sod trucked in.
It was a miserably hot weekend and the boys worked their tails off.
I have been wanting to do this update for ages, but it took a while for the sod to all grow in. There was a strip along the back fence that still had the old grass and it took a while for the St Augustine to grow over it. There are still a few bare-ish spots from the dogs running around but I guess that can't be avoided. But here is the yard a year later and looking 1000 times better than before!!
(taken from Savannah's bedroom window)
