How to landscape in a hurry

When you have a large gathering in a week and want to fix up the yard and reduce Spring Creek hurricane dust, here is a way.

 After leveling the ground, use some kind of ground cover to keep weeds out. We used plastic hanging around in the Olsen's yard. If you're going to add rocks right away, you don't have to put many landscape pins in. However, the dirt next to the house in both the front and back was impossible to control but they didn't want to add rock until they had finished the cement edging. Therefore, we laid down plastic and put lots of staples--perhaps every couple of feet to keep the ground cloth down. Hopefully, it will last all year until they are ready for more rock.

Another fast way to eliminate dirt and dust is to add sod. Seeding is much cheaper of course, but there's nothing like laying out thick green grass to finish off a job. Actually, I've never had much luck with seed. I hear fall is better than spring to plant unless you have a warm spring. It has to stay wet for so long too. I don't recommend it if you can help it.