"Jennifer" wrote in message

I dunno, if you watch HGTV, it sure looks like it's simple and
inexpensive enough to tear out or till under any existing mess and
install new sod and some new plants when you're ready to sell.


HGTV is a great entertainment channel- I spend lots of time there. But I
spend lots of time fooling around in the yard and on home projects and do
know this- they can condense two weeks of backbreaking labor performed by a
team of professionals into one 30 minute "fun weekend project" completed by
a homeowner and a host.
And they regularly underestimate the cost of projects- leaving out the
purchase of necessary tools, and all those trips back and forth because you
bought the wrong thing to start with.

Lawns are like anything else in this world- it is easier to *keep* them in
shape than to *get* them in shape.
NOTHING is simple.