After the longest (and coldest) winter North Carolina has seen for years, I’m so glad to say that spring has sprung. The weather has been perfect lately, which has motivated my husband and I to start working on our yard. We’re newlyweds and new homeowners, with a lawn full of dry soil and weeds.
We’ve been trying to decide what kind of grass to plant for awhile now. We were at Lowe’s the other day, trying to figure out whether to sod or seed (or do a combination of both). Oh the dilemmas I never thought I’d have! Before we bought our house, I didn’t even think twice about grass. Now I’m reading articles like this one and nodding my head in agreement.
While we haven’t yet made a grass-related decision, we were able to agree that our bushes in the front yard were in dire need of some fresh mulch. The old mulch that was around when we bought the house was sun-bleached and completely thinned out. We also bought and spread some pine straw to add some texture. To complete the look, we picked up some new solar landscape lights as well.
Here are the before and after shots: focus on the mulch and please excuse the condition of our grass. We’re hoping to get that under control before we get a notice in the mail from our neighborhood homeowner’s association…
For more information on mulching your yard, check out this article; complete with a handy mulch calculator!
Erinn Honeycutt
Digital Content Specialist
