Hi All, I am Jarrod and new here. This is my first post, but I have been following along for a while, and watching some of your videos. I live just North of Boston near the MA and NH border. I bought my house about 18 months ago and it was in dire need of landscape attention. We couldn't even find the beds when we first moved in. I quickly hired TruGreen, but was less than impressed with their results. In all fairness we had a lot of mature (75'+) pines which didn't help. In hind sight, I wish I had taken a lot more pictures when we first move in. As the year moved on and my frustration with my lawn grew one of my coworkers turned me on this forum and the LCN.

Through reading your posts, and watching YouTube, I got a better sense of what I was up against, and with the help of a few bad winter storms which took down a few trees, I hatched a diabolical plot through which I was able to convince my wife we should take down ~20 pine trees widen the single lane driveway to a double lane and then renovate the half the yard.

Here is the front of our house following the first spring raking



Here is the side prior to the trees coming down. WIsh I had taken more picks as this entire area was overgrown with brush about 8' high when we first moved in. You couldn't actually see past the trees to the swings, which was good for privacy, but as the temps warmed we realized the only thing that grew there was moss due to the shade



So in late April of 2018 all the trees came down.





And then the stumps



A few weeks later the pavers came and put the new driveway in. (Tuesday after Memorial Day)



Then came the loam (100 yards of it)



And the hydroseed (early June)



We had germination in about 4 days, but unfortunately the humidity was setting in. This was the first time I had grown a lawn from seed and I most Iikely overwatered because of the heat and humidity. As result the fungus was not far behind. I had a pythium outbreak, just as I was ready for my first mow, which gave me an excellent opportunity to spread it



And really did a number on the new grass. Luckily the hardest hit areas were not viewable from the street







I was lucky enough to get it under control and limp into mid July. But the rest of my lawn still looked pretty bad. Luckily it still looked good from the street











In late August, I brought in 2 yards of compost which I used to top dress the areas struggling the most. I then aerated, overseeded along with starter fert, milo, and RGS. (this is the day after aeration and overseeding)





I watered (properly/lesson learned), patiently waited. I had quick germination and kept the mow height high. This was about 2 weeks later





I added a few small doses of 20-20-20 every 3-4 weeks along with RGS starting in just after the pics above. And this is about how we ended. We have had a few hard freezes, but still green





My plans for next year are new shed and new beds along the tree to the right of my property and potentially accross the back of my lawn. I am also in the process of getting quotes for irrigation, since this year I had to run a 12 zone above ground system. I have a Chappin 20V Backpack sprayer, but I want to find a more efficient way to deliver liquid fert.... maybe...... but will start another thread on that topic.