I took the first stab at mowing our lawn last week and was overwhelmed by the number of dandelions we seemed to acquire since last year. This is our first full spring in our home and I’ll be honest, last summer was a blur of settling in and taking care of major projects that we barely even had time to address the lawn.

All I know is, there is way more yellow popping out of grass right now.

Inexperienced in lawn care, I just assumed we did something wrong. And let me clarify that. We didn’t do anything at the end of the fall to get our yard ready for spring. So by doing nothing, we must have done something wrong.

So now that spring is here, what the heck should we be doing to combat the problem?

I reached out to Mary Hockenberry Meyer, a

Hey. Hi. I’m Lindsay. I’m the director of marketing at VIBE Realty. Perhaps we’ve already met at an event. Perhaps you know me from the Internet. Or in real life. Maybe you don’t know me at all. Whatever brought you to this post, thank you for stopping by.

Besides being my introduction to VIBE’s community, it is also our VERY FIRST blog on our website which is incredibly exciting. My goal over the next few months is to create content you can connect with -- if it happens in your house or around your house, we’ll cover it. Plus we’ll be diving into the communities we live and work in and sharing stories that matter to us.

When I sat down with Rob and Steve back in March to talk about this opportunity, I was enamored by their passion for not only