Just wanted to provide an update on my lawn. After having posted around September last year (2006), and posting at AllAboutLawns.com, I received some good tips to help revive my lawn. The one that was repeated the most often was that I appeared to be under-fertilizing it. It didn't make much sense to me since the fertilizer bag claimed to cover 5,000 sq ft which is roughly the size of my lawn.

Basically, I decided to ignore the weeds for the time being and just get the grass growing again. In early September, I put down 2 bags of fertilizer (supposedly enough for 10,000 sq ft) with high nitrogen content. Things started to look better. Towards mid-October I put down 2 bags of winterizer fertilizer.

My grass stayed green in the fall longer than all my neighbors, and when the snow melted it was still greener than the neighbors. This March, I put down another 2 bags of fertilizer (with crabgrass preventer). So far this year, things are looking pretty good, here are some pictures:

From late March (just as it's starting to green):




From late April (just after a mowing):




As you can see in the April pictures, the grass is looking green and full. I have been cutting on the highest or second-highest setting on my mower. You can also see that I have some dandelions mixed in there. About a week ago, I sprayed with Weed Stop selective herbicide which contains 7% 2-4d. So far seems to be working. I will have more of an update on that later.