Rebuilding the Tree Belt

One of the pleasures of home ownership for me has been all the gardening and yard work that it entails. It was our unfortunate distinction to inherit a rather lack-luster front and back lawn. Most atrocious was the tree belt -- that strip of grass between the street and sidewalk -- which was, quite frankly, a lush patch of crab grass.

From all the research I've done online, autumn is the most ideal time to plant grass seed. So a couple of weeks ago, Trey and I began the project of ripping up the tree belt and then planting new seed.

This is what it looked like one week ago.

Just dirt.

 This is what it looked like 3 days later.

A little green fuzz.

And this is what it looked like this morning, exactly one week after planting.

We're sporting a thin, albeit promising, green carpet.

I did not expect for these blades to support snow for at least another two months.

But you just never know around these parts.