I'm making a lawn... got any helpful hints?

[ma belle]

Well I tore down the brambles which grew 8ft high all over, cleared the bricks, tilled the earth and planted a lawn... a week later i've got mutherfuckin grass growing out the soil! cool! I'm determined to get a bar-b-q going in the back this summer on the grass. :)

[Dorothy Wood]

tip#1:
don't set it on fire.

[kaiser soze]

water it daily while it's germinating, it'll take time

we're growing grass where I work

[ma belle]

yeah - there's only a few millimetres of grass here and there! So frustratingly sloww.When it said grass in a week I thought it would be green out there. :( At least there's not much to burn if I have a Bar-b-q

[drizl]

set it on fire, and then replant native species. you'll be suprised at how beautiful it is. the concept of lawns is so fucking ridiculous. when you consider all the wasted time, water, chemical and fertilizer use, and the destruction ones down to the natural energy web surrounding their house...it makes no sense. i hope some day it will be fashionable to not have a lawn and be watering it all the time. when that day comes, we will all be a lot further along towards living a little better with our environment.(lb)

[like2_drink]

don't listen to a word Q has to say;)

[ma belle]

well its just a bit of heardwearing grass. I'm planting wild bushes all r ound the edge that'll lean overlap the grass and be sort of low maintenance, wildish natural zen space. I dont think I preferred the 8ft all over bramble patch.

[jabumbo]

rose bushes

[B_Mackin']

The biggest thing about starting a lawn is to keep it watered. After the grass is established you will have to re-seed bare spots. I'm still doing this with our lawn that we planted like 5 years ago but we have crappy soil. Fertilizer helps but it's better to do less than the recomended amount a little more often. Try to keep the weeds down and I don't know if you have a moss problem but that really impeads the growth of the grass. Chemicals work but try to use them as little as possible, especially if you live near water. For weed killer the liquid stuff in a bottle that attaches to the hose works better than the dry stuff in bags. And when you mow it don't mow to short, 3-4 inch grass grows better cuz it can outcompete weeds and such and it grows a lot better. That's about all i got.