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Got told my 'landscaping' was just throwing grass seed on gravel
A neighbor walked by my house in Edmonton last spring and said my front yard looked like a construction site because I'd been dumping topsoil over clay without testing pH. So I spent $40 on a soil test kit and found out the pH was 8.2, way too alkaline for the Kentucky bluegrass I was planting. Has anyone else had a neighbor call them out on something that actually fixed their whole approach?
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ryanm607d ago
My dad's been gardening in Calgary for like 30 years and he always told me to throw a handful of lime in the soil before seeding, but I never listened lol. Last summer I did a soil test on my own lawn and it came back at 7.8 pH, so I dumped $30 worth of elemental sulfur on it and watered it in for a few weeks. The difference was crazy, the grass actually took off that fall compared to the patchy mess I had before. Your neighbor might have been a bit blunt but they honestly did you a favor saving you all that time and money on seed that would have just died anyway lol.
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patricia2627d ago
7.8 is brutal for grass. Elemental sulfur was the right call there. Calgary soil can be a real crapshoot.
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sanchez.mary7d ago
Did @ryanm60 actually spend $30 just to lower his lawn's pH?
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