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We are currently renting but geting ready to be first time home owners. We have two dogs that have destroyed the lawn where we are at now. I wouldnt even call it a lawn. Mostly hard, very dry earth with some patches of grass. How do I get it looking good in 25 days with out spending a lot of money on it. How do you seed hard dry clay. I wish I could afford to hire someone to replace the whole lawn but being first time home owners, Thats not happening.Any advise will be much appriciated...
So are you buying the house that you've been renting and want to fix up the yard? Or are you trying to do something so you get your security deposit back when you move out?
If you're buying the house that you've been renting, then with the dog situation I'd look into alternatives other than grass, there's no way you're going to keep it looking nice unless you keep the dogs off of it.
If it's about the security deposit then the best thing you can do is keep the dogs somewhere else for the next month and put down seed, with any luck it'll be sprouting by the time you move out. You've got to keep the dogs off it though or else you have no chance at all of having grass. Here's a website with step by step instructions on how to see a lawn [HYPERLINK@landscaping.about.com]
