converting lawn
- Subject: converting lawn
- From: b* s*
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:09:08 -0700
I have a small patch of lawn - about 8X17 feet. I've been slowly sticking
in white achillea which I would like to take over the entire patch. The
achillea has spread very nicely along the edges which are tight against
wood borders but most of the lawn is still grass (weed grass and other),
dandelions and other weeds. I almost never water it in the summer so there
are brown patches.
Part of the lawn is shaded by the apple tree and there it is greener but
most of the grass is ordinary weedy stuff and the achillea is alive but not
spreading as well in the shady places.
Do you think I can continue doing it patch by patch (compost, newspaper and
mulch)? Or would it be better to do that to the entire strip all at once?
Or, any other ideas?
Thanks--Barbara, in Berkeley where it doesn't rain from spring until late
autumn.
