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So the good weather meant I could finish the job finally. Tilled the yard to facilitate fixing the soil conditions (lime, lots of fertiliser), dug out a trench to put in a sprinkler system (found a huge rock while doing it too), ordered in 4 yards of top dressing (about 4000-5000lbs) that I had to cart to the back one load at a time and then redistribute and wrapped up yesterday with seed, grub killer, and more fertiliser.

The sprinkler works pretty well though I just barely get to the back left corner (testing didn't show this problem) - my house doesn't flow a lot of water (only 5GPM which is less than the 6GPM that Rainbird says is the minimum) so I'll probably just live with it as is - I otherwise would have to dig up the sprinkler and move it out another foot. I got a timer off Amazon and am watering every 6 hours for now.

Fingers crossed now that we'll have a functioning lawn come summer time.