Question
QUESTION: My foundation is built on SAND but as I said in my previous post, the backyard did have topsoil added before we laid sod.  Therefore, the front yard (sand) lawn care may be a little different than the back yard right?  Thanks in advance.
ANSWER: Hi Mike;
Actually, you use the same organic program to emprove sandy soil as you do to improve clay soil.
With the sand, there is so much faster drainage, so you may need to water more often, but use the same things.
Letting the grass clippings compost and feed the lawn, will also add good soil to the sand over time.
Charlotte

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QUESTION: How would you recommend I use my mower?  It has the bag attachment, which will bag weeds, debri, etc.  Or, let it mulch?  

Answer
We leave the clippings to compost and add nutrients.
If you have thatch now, I would bag the clippings and make a compost pile, ouit behind a barn or somewhere out of sight.
You can make a wire cage for a compost pile, or buy one of the composters.
We ordered 2 from Garden Supply company, when they were omn sale at half price. We have ordered frm there a lot for the past few years, and always have a satisfactory experience.
After you gwet rid of the thatch, and your compost is ready, you can always top dress with the compost.
You put green things and brown things in there.
We mow over the first leaves that fall, while the grass is still green, and go over the whole area a couple of times, this mulches them up really small, then the rest, and the leaves our neighbors rake up and bag, we add to the compost pile.
I put all my raw fruit vegetable peels and scraps in the compost too.
Potato peels, outside leaves of lettuce, all that stuff, just adds nourishment to your compost,m and makes a nice rich soil to top dress with or to add a handful or two when you fill a container with soil to plant something.
If you see an earthworm, toss him in the compost pile. he will just help it along faster.
If you mow the weeds before they can put out seeds, then the weeds will compost and make nutrients too.
I feel very smug when I add a weed to a compost pile. It seems like justice to make it's carcass feed the grass it tried to kill. LOL
You have to go to a feed store to get it, but alfalfa meal is full of nutrients, and so is lava sand. Lava sand yiou can even get at Home Depot, and probably Walmart.
Just throw a little of it all around.
I know you already have a lot of sand, but lava sand is full of so many nutrients.
That is what makes the gorgeous flowers grow on those islands.
Charlotte