Turf renovation, rejuvenation
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:21 am
Spent the day (the ENTIRE day) HARD WORKING in the garden (on a mid week day off), scalping the lawn to near bare earth, going over it with a hired water filled 'Drum Aerator' extremely heavy, physically dragging / pulling pushing it, you should probably really use a tractor), and then applying a 1/4 M3 of premium organic mix & 1/4 M3 of fine washed sand.
A 1/2 M3 of soil / sand doesn't sound like much until you move it with a shovel and a bucket (no wheel barrow, it's about 1.6T). Rake that all out to evenly (ish) spread over front, rear & side lawns.
Rear lawn is the good (Just laid last year) premium 'Queensland Blue Couch' (Digitaria Didactyla) so just the sand / organic mix raked in there with a double shot of high intensity fertiliser and a heavy watering.
Front and side the same but for the addition of packets of seed mix, (couch, Perrenial & Annual Rye grass, Red Fescue, & Kentucky Blue), lets see how that strikes....
Needless to say many well deserved ice cold beers were enjoyed after the physical activity, whilst hand watering in all the goodness!...
A few weeks from now I hope to have the 'best lawn in the street'...
(I'm well knackered though!).....and it wasn't until 12:30 did I realise I had been out in the Sun since dawn without a hat.....it was technically the last day of 'winter', but I am very sunburnt...:/
A 1/2 M3 of soil / sand doesn't sound like much until you move it with a shovel and a bucket (no wheel barrow, it's about 1.6T). Rake that all out to evenly (ish) spread over front, rear & side lawns.
Rear lawn is the good (Just laid last year) premium 'Queensland Blue Couch' (Digitaria Didactyla) so just the sand / organic mix raked in there with a double shot of high intensity fertiliser and a heavy watering.
Front and side the same but for the addition of packets of seed mix, (couch, Perrenial & Annual Rye grass, Red Fescue, & Kentucky Blue), lets see how that strikes....
Needless to say many well deserved ice cold beers were enjoyed after the physical activity, whilst hand watering in all the goodness!...
A few weeks from now I hope to have the 'best lawn in the street'...
(I'm well knackered though!).....and it wasn't until 12:30 did I realise I had been out in the Sun since dawn without a hat.....it was technically the last day of 'winter', but I am very sunburnt...:/