The wheat grass has taken off! It's kinda fun having a mini green lawn in our kitchen.
They'll make a fun Easter centerpiece.
I let the girls give their vases a haircut. It was so much fun!!
It was also a good opportunity to learn about how plants work. Ella asked what the "white things" were and we talked about how the roots are straws that suck up water for the grass.
Freshly mowed!
Our real grass is greening up too! We haven't gotten a lawnmower yet but it will be time before we know it.
Unfortunately the Johnson grass likes the area too. Until our seed is more established we don't want to use weed controlling chemicals, so we've been managing the old fashioned way: PULLING.
I should have kept a log of the time I've spent popping these suckers out with a screwdriver.... going on 20 hours maybe? At least that when Mike is home helping too! It's mind-numbing for sure... but the areas that are done look so much better. I keep telling myself it's worth it and by the end of the summer we'll have lush green lawn!
A few other colors are dotting the landscape... pink ranunculus.
White pear blossoms.
White candytuft (a spring perennial I just planted).
And our first yellow daffodils! I just have say how cute it was when Ella found these. I was around the house spraying weeds and I could hear her yelling, "MOM, com'ere!!! MOM! The flowers are BLOOMING!" That nut didn't fall far from the tree.
Hmmm your Johnson grass looks like the stuff we have. When we got our sod about half of it was that stuff. We asked the sod farmer (Bryce's uncle) and he said it was "water grass" and that as soon as we stopped doing the heavy watering to establish the sod it would die out. Um yeah that was 4.5 years ago and our yard is still about 20% that stuff. We can't get rid of it! Even with weed and feed applications.
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