My two grasses have both run their course. The life span for such grasses is only a couple of weeks, but mine seemed to almost last an entire month. The grass that grew the fastest and highest, which was around the disturbance wall, died the first. My theory for why the grass grew best there was that the wood was soaking up the sporadic watering and keeping the surrounding area moist for a longer period than the areas that drained and became drier quicker.
I’ve waited a few days for the grass to become brittle and break down, so that I can get in and reseed with some herbs. I am going to plant three distinct and separate areas. One at the top of the planter edge. One at the bottom of the swale and one right at the spot where the grass grew the highest. I plan to catalog their growth in the same way that I did with the grass.
Planter as it looks today
Planter as it looked one week ago
