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Soils Alive Blog
Solutions to Not Enough Sun
Posted by Michael Bosco on Saturday, February 02, 2008
We welcome two new clients today, one is in Flower Mound and the other is in Euless. I visited with each one at their home to see what challenges we had, and how we could improve the look of their landscape. Each one has heavy shade, and had recently trimmed up their trees to allow more light down to the grass.
Both yards had lost grass as you walk into the back yard on the side of the house. These areas are very difficult to keep grass because the house and the fence block all direct sun except for overhead midday sun and during the winter time the sun doesn't even get there because of the lower winter angle. I recommend turning those areas into landscaped areas with stepping stones and a low ivy or dwarf mondo grass.
The house in Flower Mound had lost 25% of their front yard last summer. We think it might have been from lack of water but the parkway looked fine. Typically the parkway will burn up first if the irrigation system is not running enough. It is possible they had a zone malfunction causing the problem. We will need to fertilize what grass is left in the front heavily to get it to fill in all the bare areas. This will also be areas that weeds will be a problem in until the St. Augustine fills back in.
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