Renovate Your Lawn

Not sure how I ended up on the Dirt Works mailing list, but this week's newsletter features tips on how to renovate your lawn. It includes advice on how to rototill (yes, that is a verb), the best machines for raking and smoothing, and, even this tasty nugget on how to choose your compost:

If it's steaming when it comes out of the truck, you don't want it in your new lawn. It could contain weed seeds that haven't been killed off by the heat of decomposition and, it's probably acidic too. Bottom line, get mature compost. Check out the pile before you buy.

Fascinating. Thanks, Dirt Works. Now if only I had a lawn to use it on.

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