12-07-2006, 05:54 AM
Well, you can pretty much start a lawn any time you want to, we don't have enough seasonal differences to require a specific "planting season". For tender garden vegetables like lettuce and peas, most of those are planted in the fall with an additional crop in late winter. Grass can be planted at any time although it will probably need a bit more watering over the summer if it is just starting out.
There isn't the big "keeping up with the Okamuras" in lawns here like there is on the mainland. It seems the further north you go on the mainland, the more particular folks are about their lawns and the more status they put into them. (Around here it is usually a different patch of grass which will get you status, but it is a different type of status, too.)
If you are planting in pure cinder, then getting a bunch of organic matter into it (compost/mulch) will help hold the moisture and let your grass grow. You can get bags of mulch at the transfer station for free and that will keep moisture into the cinder.
Around Christmas time, though, a lot of the mulch is made from Christmas trees which are mostly pine. Pine mulch is good for areas where you don't want stuff growing through it, I forget why. Might be good along fence lines and such so you wouldn't have to pull up weeds there all the time.
I had some friends in Orchidland who had just one duck. He had a moveable fenced in enclosure with a small wading pond. They would fence in a small area and let him live there about six months. Then they would move him to a patch next door and let the grass grow where he had been. Thick lush green grass was growing where he had been. Sparse thin grass was growing in the rest of the yard. After the duck had been there, the grass seemed to stay lush, there were areas where he hadn't been for a year or more, but they were still lush and green.
Maybe the best way to grow a lawn is to ask Santa for a dozen baby ducks?
There isn't the big "keeping up with the Okamuras" in lawns here like there is on the mainland. It seems the further north you go on the mainland, the more particular folks are about their lawns and the more status they put into them. (Around here it is usually a different patch of grass which will get you status, but it is a different type of status, too.)
If you are planting in pure cinder, then getting a bunch of organic matter into it (compost/mulch) will help hold the moisture and let your grass grow. You can get bags of mulch at the transfer station for free and that will keep moisture into the cinder.
Around Christmas time, though, a lot of the mulch is made from Christmas trees which are mostly pine. Pine mulch is good for areas where you don't want stuff growing through it, I forget why. Might be good along fence lines and such so you wouldn't have to pull up weeds there all the time.
I had some friends in Orchidland who had just one duck. He had a moveable fenced in enclosure with a small wading pond. They would fence in a small area and let him live there about six months. Then they would move him to a patch next door and let the grass grow where he had been. Thick lush green grass was growing where he had been. Sparse thin grass was growing in the rest of the yard. After the duck had been there, the grass seemed to stay lush, there were areas where he hadn't been for a year or more, but they were still lush and green.
Maybe the best way to grow a lawn is to ask Santa for a dozen baby ducks?
Kurt Wilson