Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Bad punctuation aside, no Pandas allowed. Not only because they appear to be violent, but also because if the sentence was properly punctuated, they might eat my new shoots.




I finally spotted some new shoots today!! See for yourself.

Aren't they cute?

And here is the large bare spot, but you probably can't see the little shoots from this far away.

I have been watering diligently. Once in the morning with the automatic sprinklers, and once in the afternoon with my manual sprinkler, positioned in three different places for optimal coverage.

Even through the grass is growing, it will be a while before the dogs are allowed back into the yard to enjoy it. In fact, today they broke out there while I was in the front rounding up a Blue Tick Coonhound and a German Shorthaired Pointer. They lived a few houses down. By the time I rounded up my own dogs, there were several large Pie Prints in the wet soil. I hope the grass will be able to stand up to her weight and speed when she is finally allowed to play out there.

I want to know- does anyone sell crabgrass seed? It is green, hardy, will keep the dirt away, and seems impossible to kill. My kind of yard plant. The only green stuff in my yard when I planted my grass was crab grass. Since it is so easy to keep alive, why do people hate it so much?