Our grass and gardens have been doing great this summer, with only a few unfortunate exceptions. Millie decided to have a slip n slide party a few weeks ago and left the plastic tarp out way too long on a day that was way too hot. Needless to say, there is a nice 8'x 10' dead grass burn mark in the back yard. Honestly though, as frustrating as that is, the remedy is simple enough: remove plastic, water frequently, mow out dead grass as new grass grows. However, shortly after the burn, another spot appeared in one of the nearby corners of the yard. Literally, a spot.
My first thought was something along the line of "that's a strange looking dead spot." It just appeared out of nowhere and almost a perfect circle. I thought for sure this was the result of another one of Salisbury's lazy ass waste management techniques which meant I was probably going to have to break out some more concrete to save my lawn.
I was right.
It was impossible to tell just how deep the round of concrete waste was, but I took my 16lb. sledge hammer to it for about three minutes without making a scratch. It was a hot day, so I decided to give it a rest for the time being.
This morning I decided to have another go at it. I beat at the concrete again with the sledge for about 5 min. and it cracked - not much, but enough. I started to pry at it with my shovel and was able to remove a piece. With each piece that came out I thought to myself how I'm rescuing my lawn. However, with each piece that came out I had to tear more lawn up to remove more and more concrete. By the end of it all, that small spot of dead grass was just the tip of the concrete waste pile that was lurking under my lawn, waiting for enough dry hot days to kill my beautiful green carpet!
You can see the dead spot from the slip n slide in the back ground of this pict... it is getting much better than it was originally.
It's a comforting to know all that concrete is now out and will be one less thing I'll have to worry about while I'm away on clinical rotations this fall, but it frustrates me to no end to think about how careless Salisbury was with our yard during construction. Oh well, it's done.
3 comments:
How infuriating! Maybe you should send your pictures and a nice little letter to Salsbury :)
And Dad always said you can grow sod on anything as long as you water it. Here's proof--no concrete under the sod please!!!
That is incredible! I can't believe you guys have had that much concrete in your yard! Ridiculous...and looks like a ton of work :(
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