Between our houses is a nice concrete patio area that we call “the courtyard”. We’re pretty sure it was originally designed to be an in-ground pool, but the people who built the house in 2001 either decided Montana isn’t a great place for an outdoor pool, or they ran out of money. Either way, they filled in the area with grass.
Over the years, that grass has fought a losing battle against weeds. Finally it was overgrown, and we knew we had to do something. The courtyard is a great gathering spot, and the place where all our summer guests enjoy the grass. We explored several options and finally hired a crew to come up and pull out the old grass, then lay new sod.
Here’s Luke starting a run with his sod cutter. It’s a cool little machine that just rips up strips of grass.
Ollie was visiting, and supervised their work while eating breakfast. He was fascinated by the process.
After about six hours of work, the fresh sod was in place. It looks like a patchwork quilt, but it’s a quilt without weeds!
Now we’ll water the heck out of it so the grass can take root, and by the summer we’ll have a beautiful lush lawn…