Thread: avoiding dead spots in the yard

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So, does anyone besides me worry about making tons of dead spots on their yard? If so, how do you avoid it? I usually set up the first weekend of Oct. last year I just used a few rocks placed under the edges of the coffin and haybales. Just wondered if anyone else had suggestions.

Jack o lanterns or tombstones

That's part of the reason I only start setting up a week before...

That's one of the reasons my husband said no more graveyards.

Our haunt and graveyard scene goes up about two weeks out. We have not had too much repair work to do on our grass after we take things down - and we put up quite a bit of stuff...
By that time of year - many folks put down grass seed as part of their regular Fall routine. We aren't that organized, but before Thanksgiving (and after the Halloween decor has gone away) we do manage to sprinkle a few handfuls of "grow anywhere" seed on our lawn and then spray miracle grow over the entire thing a few times. Somehow - along with the usual broadleaf weeds and dandelions, it always comes back by spring and survives just fine. At least it is green. We may not have the best lawn in the neighborhood - but we DO have the best haunt!! LOL

Oh - one more thing - and I don't know if this helps the lawn survive but --

We usually STOP mowing about three weeks out from Halloween. The lawn gets creepy long and manages to make the whole graveyard scene look more unkempt. Maybe there is a side benefit in that the longer grass can withstand all the headstones and prop poking that goes along with the season...

Snow covers most of it after Halloween for me (L).
We stop cutting the grass a few weeks before October.

I set up about two weeks out...but I don't have big stuff lying in the grass, so I don't really have a problem. Last year I let folks walk around the house...that trashed the yard especially due to the wet weather. It all grew back nicely, but the grass doesn't grow here from November thru March, so I could see the path all winter. I plan on doing the same thing this year, but as mentioned above, I won't be mowing the grass in October where the path will be.

Another idea I may use is to make a "tunnel" out of PVC and black plastic. I figure if the grass stays dry, then it just gets matted down, as opposed to turning to a muddy mess

Dead spots? You mean like patches of dead, brown grass?

Who cares? It's just grass.

We usually set up the same day as Halloween. Though a couple years ago I put up some huge crosses for the scarecrows to hang on . I had to use a post hole digger to dig deep enough and we had huge holes I had to try and refill. They were kind of dead and sucken the following year but, have come back great since then.
Just pick up some grass seed and reseed the following year. It all comes back.
This year I'm building an 8' x 8' crypt for my new fcg. I'm going to tick off my neighbors since it will be between our houses and the grass will def. be dead since I'll put it up in Sept. I'll just
hose the dead grass out next spring and reseed the whole spot. Should look even better then it does now.