Best way to improve front yard?
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send pictures!
can you post a few photos
Plant grass and a couple of crepe myrtle trees
Hello John, It may be too late to put seed down but it is not too late to put sod in. Sod requires water. A lot of water. You have to keep it soaked for the grass roots to take hold. I would pull all the weeds out first and then lay sod down. When you put sod down, you should stagger it. You may have to cut a few pieces to create a staggered installation. If you put a tree in, you could give it a nice boarder with those red bricks. I would put the interlock pavers around the front of your house to make a flower bed. I hope this helps you. Good luck.
Unless you get a very early cold snap fall is a good time to put new grass-follow instructions regarding watering
If that dirt is hard packed, I would water the heck out of it and run a rototiller over it, then rake it, and get some good soil delivered before putting that sod down.