I just brought home a nice bag of weed and feed for my lawn thinking that I would have a nice beautiful green lawn when we were done...well...now I have a lawn with a bunch of yellow spots. When you have a lawn that is mostly weed there is really nothing to feed :) I also think that it didn't help that I let Sarah and Becca distribute the seed and so there were some spots that had TONS of weed and feed on it that killed the grass. So I had a brilliant idea.
About 5 years ago in Reston we ordered some things for our "year supply." One of the things was a large bucket of barley. I thought it would be a good alternative to meat in stews. Well when we opened it (just this year) we discovered that it was sprouting barley not pearled barley. As I was reading about sprouting barley I wasn't too thrilled with the reviews and found out that it was totally inedible how it was we could only use it if we sprouted it and then the sprouts have a bland taste (according to a sprouting website). On that web site it said that you could use it as seed for a lawn so that is what we did. We will see how it will turn out. There are already spots where it has grown, and it looks great, but I don't know how it will be with traffic over it. hum I will let you know.
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Last month we found a bucket of wheat with weavils. I had Dad throw it in the garden. I figured if it sprouted we could just turn it under for good green fertilizer. Big mistake. Should have thrown it on the lawn! We've turned it under three times now and wheat grass just continues to pop up. Let us know how the barley grass turns out.
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