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The Crown Vetch Plan is in place. Our yard is full of holes from woodchucks, cows' hooves, sinking spots, old fenceposts long gone, and tire tracks. They get invisible when the grass gets going, and ankles sprain..... We fill them with used kitty litter as we find them. The goal is a yard safe for mobility-impaired people using canes, scooters, walkers, or wheelchairs.

On top of those gray patches will now go good dirt holding crown vetch started from seed. (Image: hair transplant plugs.) Hardi will mow around the vetch-starts to give them a fair shot at threading out from their plantings to take over a section of yard. He will continue to mow a cross-country-ski path and walking path thru and to the sitting areas. In a few years, if this works, the vetch should take over all the rest.

In the fall-- if the landlord's son has time to run tractor around-- some of the weedy grass may get surface-scratched to vetch-seed larger areas in flowing beds. I'm betting on the plug-and-play plan, tho.

~Susan