Landscaping: Plug it!

For the past couple of yard our yard has been dirt.  Plugs cost money. Reseeding with two active dogs seemed like a waster of time We had some old seed we thought would be to dead to plant but what the heck just in case, we threw back in the back yard to see what would happen. Believe it or not it came up. 

I looked at plugs. PLUGS are REALLY EXPENSIVE! All  a grass plug is is a chunk of grass root and all. Cutting our own to transplant in the front yard since its the beginning of spring and we are still here any way seems like an idea.
This is not a hard thing to do. You take a sharp knife cut through your grass down through the roots and into the dirt, then cut under it to get the roots. The thing s you wants LOTS OF ROOT!  Pull and you have the basis for a grass plug.  After I have a bunch  in the bucket, what I did was sit down and take a good look at each one. If it was large enough to cut into more  parts I did so. Its just like dividing house plants.

 

 This grass that we do have has not been cut yet this season, so we use  the same sharp knife to tip the plugs off. By tipping I means I cut the grass. We are literally gong to give the grass a hair cut. Make sure you do not take more then 1/ 3 off the top.

Plug Before Hair cut

 Now on to planting the plug.

 This is  not rocket science.

Dig a hole large enough for the plug. What we have been doing is digging 5 or 6 at a time  to keep the pattern right .

  Pour some miracle grow in the the hole.About 2 tablespoons is more then enough. I would use root stimulator but our car is down an I did not want to have to wait til we could go to a different store so we just not some regular miracle grow at Dollar General.

Plant the plug and your done with that one.

Looking good!

We did this in a couple of hours.