I maintained the labyrinth through the winter. And it turned out that the winter was better for the lab than summer. It just baked in the summer drought and a lot of the grass died, turning it into a field of not much more than dirt and a few wispy lines of paint. But we had enough rain lately to encourage the grass to start growing again.
For keeping the lines in good shape I have needed to put down new paint lines once in a while. I bought a stick kind of thing that I can spray the paint while walking and this eliminated the bending over. The bending over part was very demoralizing. Get the stick thingy. Or call me and I can send a picture.
I found a paint that I like: Rustoleum Marking paint. I started out buying it at Lowes then found out they stock it at Walmart. It's about $5 a can and to do the whole lab takes about four cans. Fortunately, I'm just on "maintenance mode" right now and it only needs a can or two to keep the lines distinct.
One thing that is helping is that it looks like the paint kills the vegetation under it. If I look close I can see nothing more than dirt under the white in a lot of places.
I hope the new grass will provide a stark contrast to the dead zone line We'll see.
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