Thursday, March 20, 2008

Decommissioning a Garden

You may remember a previous blog about Lawrence "Giving up gardening". (Click here) Loving gardening so much, people wondered if he would give it up. A week or so back he cleared and raked a garden and handed it over to me. It was a sort of "decommissioning". Knowing my total disinterest in gardening, he suggested that I look at buying lawn turf, rather than trying to grow from seed.
So we drove south of the city and met Tim Prebble, who grows grass. That is him in the photo resetting the irrigation sprinklers.

I learnt that watering this type of grass, a mix of Fescue & Browntop, is critical in summer weather.

Lawrence, in the car, casts a knowledgeable eye over the scene, as we leave with our rolls of lawn.

And here is my first effort at laying lawn. There will be more to follow.
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