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Spring 2005--10 Months after Hurrican Ivan
We have been living on what looks like a moonscape after removing the remains of several other people's homes from our property.
Finally we are digging out the rest of the buried debris, taking down dead trees, getting a nice new grade on the property and 40 pallets of St. Augustine grass sod.
Our yard for the last 10 months after Hurricane Ivan and the removal of the massive amounts of debris
Hurricane IVAN so destroyed
the evergreen native plant hedgerow between our property and the new subdivision going in
on the former site of a single residence, that it had to be all ripped out. Some wax
myrtle is coming back from the roots (a good thing) and we have planted the most salt
tolerant and fastest growing things we could find, along with muscadine cultivars on the
chain link fence. Our property has looked like a moonscape for 10 months, but at last we
are going to have a better lawn than ever. In the last
two days we have brought in 1 load
of sand, & 10 loads of topsoil, and 40 pallets of grass. Our tractor
driver, Bill Ray, and his two Mexican helpers, has taken down two big trees that died as a
result of Hurricane Ivan in the front and lots of smaller ones in the back.
They took down the really tall old pine first. I
hated to see it go as it looked like an old Italian pine to me.
It only made sense to take the tall one down now
before houses get built next door. It was leaning into that property and would have
required a crane if the property were not vacant--they plan to squeeze 10 houses in next
door !
We now have this smooth friable bed of soil for
our grass to grown roots into.
The area behind our place used to be dark and
shady. No grass would grow and the ground was covered in pine needles year 'round. Now it
is wide open and sunny so we sodded most it. Part is left gravel where it connects to the
driveway.
Lots of sod left to lay---I just don't know what
we'd do without our Mexican helpers.
They are hard workers and pleasant guys to have around. I am sore from head to toe, but
getting tan !
We had gotten two bids to have
our yard repaired and both of them were shocking. The first was around $14,000 and second
one came in at $18,000. These prices didn't include the gravel for the driveway
either...nothing fancy, no irrigation, no shrubs, just grass. So we couldn't agree to that
!!! What we ARE doing---This do it yourself, with help, method will be much more
affordable, but includes some very sore upper arms :o)
We know that St. Augustine is not the cheapest grass, but we think the extra
expense over Centipede is worth it. After about 5 phone calls to sod farms, only to be
told by many that it would be late May or late June before we could get any, I was
thrilled that RiverView Turf of Foley said they would cut and deliver 40 pallets for us
that same day !! And the matched the best price I had gotten elsewhere.
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