This year I am going to be getting my green on!

Living up here in Alaska is going to provide me something that North Carolina cannot – gasp, I know!  In North Carolina we struggled to get our lawn green and keep it alive all summer without it burning up. Here, we have the ability to grow lush green grass and with the spring “break-up” upon us (break-up = snow melting and more than the color white is around!) we can start to look at how to prepare our grass for it’s best chance at turning green!

I have been lucky enough to partner up with the SITS Girls and The Home Depot on sharing how you too (of course the exact products needed might vary) can get your lawn to be green this year!  I couldn’t be happier to be a part of this campaign as we are in a new house with a new lawn that we get to tend to this year. I know that sounds silly, but it is the simple things in life that I love and I to be perfectly honest I worked for John Deere and have a thing for the color green.

Being in a new place we were very unsure of the simplest thing – what kind of grass do you grow up here? I mean it can’t be like back home – Kentucky Bluegrass anyone?  I think it is mandatory that it is warm to grow that – HA!  How do you get the grass to grow with the permafrost below the top layer of soil? What type of fertilizer is needed? What is best to keep the bears and moose out of my yard? Weed killer – should I think about that too? I knew that the first thing that I needed to do was to call the Home Depot to get an idea of what I was working with.

I went online to The Home Depot website to find the closest location to me and it was literally less than a mile – 0.98 mile away.  I wasn’t kidding – was I?  While I was fining the phone number I saw that I could check the store inventory, the inventory of other local stores, and order online, pay, and pick up at the store later! HOW FANTASTIC FOR A MOM OF BUSY CHILDREN! I couldn’t have been happier to see this, especially if I could not get my husband to go with me later!

When I got on the phone with the store I selected the lawn and garden department and spoke with Amanda about how I was new to Alaska and yard work, I had no clue what I really needed, but I knew I wanted to make my lawn grow and for it be healthy, last all season, be lush, and most importantly = green.  She chuckled with me when I was done and informed me that there was plenty of ways we could make this happen and it was all something that I would be capable of doing and at an affordable cost.  She recommended me taking a good look at my lawn and maybe even taking some pictures of what my yard looks like now and make sure to catch the “problem areas” and come on it. Anyone there would be able to help me she stated.

So that is what I did:

This is my side lawn – you can see where there is some potting soil at the edge of the patio – what for, I don’t know.

The right corner of my lawn - you can see there is some grass growing but it fades to brown and is patchy

This is the middle portion and as you can tell the previous owners had an animal by the looks of the dead “patches”

This is the last picture and it is the right back corner – notice the last bit of snow and ice we have?? Oh, and all the brown! 

I am actually really excited to take these to The Home Depot and see what they can show me in store to make this brown, dead lawn, and green and happy one for the spring and summer months ahead!

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Home Depot