The grass just might be greener

Here a few of my new plants waiting to be, well, planted. They look pretty good. But check out the second photo.

Is that a normal color for grass? I'm a little worried about the grass.

I finally broke down and bought one of those Scotts® fertilizer spreader things. I didn't realize however, that there were different types of fertilizer spreader things. The most notable difference being that some of them are BROADCAST SPREADERS and others are DROP SPREADERS.

There was a "lawn expert" on The CBS Early Show last week extolling the relative virtues of BROADCAST SPREADERS. Unfortunately, that was two weeks after I purchased, and one week after I used, my new DROP SPREADER. Hmm.

As far as I can tell, the difference between the two is that a rotary spreader shoots, or broadcasts, the fertilizer stuff off to the sides beyond the scope of the wheels. While a drop spreader just drops the stuff between the wheels, so you have to be more careful with your overlap pattern.

That's the part that worries me. I'm not sure if I was very careful with my overlap pattern. It was hard to see where the wheels had been because I mowed the lawn right before I fertilized. And if I didn't overlap precisely, there's a pretty good chance that sections of my lawn didn't get fertilized at all.

Bottom line, I'm a little concerned that my lawn might end up with dark green fertilized stripes, next to light green non-fertilized stripes. That would not make me happy. But, I guess there's nothing to do now but wait.

Wait, and possibly purchase some dark green spray paint.