The Birth of a Runway. pt 9

Day 29 and the weed killer is starting to work, you can see the tips of the

leaves are turning white.

Day 30 after mowing with my lawn tractor, clipped off the tops of most of

the weeds.

Day 32 , think I am done with the Box Blade for a while, I am graded all

the way to the halfway point. Time for some dragging with the tractor

and my chain link fence.

Day 34

Day 35, weeds are starting to retract.

Later , I studied the weather and could see the next few days were going to be

in the mid 70s with no chance of rain, perfect for sowing grass seed !!

So I quick made some passes with the dragging rig the got some more

seed on the ground.

Here I have added about another 50 feet worth and have wet it down.

View from the South end.

Day 37, I have added an additional 40 feet on to what I laid last night, and

wet it all down.

Also Day 37. If you have been following along, you'll remember I put down

a second section of about 40 feet early on, well, in the switch to using the

tractor and box blade for grading, I ended up ruining part of that section

in an attempt to make a clean transition line. So, with that in mind, the

sections I have added the last two nights, now makes the total length that

is under seed, as 135 feet, which is long enough for me to start flying some

of my planes from. Now I just need to keep up with the watering every night

while Mother Nature takes care of some nice mild sunshine.

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