bertsmobile1
Lawn Royalty
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Getting off the soap box & back to Widgets problem
If you own the property then think about something else other than grass as the most labour intensive thing you can grow is grass
From your photos & description you do not have the time to look after it so why plant it ?
I would suggest that rather than poison on the strip between the drive & fence to pop in a retainer along the border like some second hand scrap 2 x 4 or a row of bricks buried end on into the ground
Then water that strip excessivly and get some blood & bone .\
Apply it heavily over the "weeds" and stomp them flat , cover with wet newspapers at least 3 sheets thick .
Over the top of that some gravel, wood chip, pebbles, crushed tile ,crushed brick ,crushed bark , anything to keep it in place and continue watering .
Leave it for a full year then cut some holes & plant some shrubs , lavender , broom , beronia or any other aromatic low growing shrub and mix them up so they don't look like a hedge
You now have a "no till" garden that will require nothing more that a squirt of glyco mid spring & mid autumn as everything that comes up through the mulch is by definition a weed .
Look up "no till" gardens for detailed instructions .
A little time consuming to initally install but bugger all work once done
Anywhere that is not used for walking over or playing on do the same but go for something like a prostrate grevillea which is good because they can be propogated from slip cuttings easily and you can mix the up with reds & yellows .
Gardens are far less work than lawns
If your lawn is full of bare patches then obviously the grass does not want to grow there or you dog thinks it is a gardener , so why grow it ?
Cheap plastic surround , same mulch as you used along the fence & a mellaucia .
Hundreds of tea tress to pick from , gain most will grow from cuttings .
I had a problem spot in a rented house so I put in over 100 of them over the 10 years I was there .
The leaves & flowers they dropped made a matting on the ground that effectivly surpressed grass growth so again 2 or 3 sprays with round up kept the ground mulch clean
Beautiful scents permiated through the house , blocked passing pedesterians view over the side fence , provided lots of dappled shade and quickly became chockers with small birds .
IF you work with nature life will be a lot easier and no matter what nature always wins
If you own the property then think about something else other than grass as the most labour intensive thing you can grow is grass
From your photos & description you do not have the time to look after it so why plant it ?
I would suggest that rather than poison on the strip between the drive & fence to pop in a retainer along the border like some second hand scrap 2 x 4 or a row of bricks buried end on into the ground
Then water that strip excessivly and get some blood & bone .\
Apply it heavily over the "weeds" and stomp them flat , cover with wet newspapers at least 3 sheets thick .
Over the top of that some gravel, wood chip, pebbles, crushed tile ,crushed brick ,crushed bark , anything to keep it in place and continue watering .
Leave it for a full year then cut some holes & plant some shrubs , lavender , broom , beronia or any other aromatic low growing shrub and mix them up so they don't look like a hedge
You now have a "no till" garden that will require nothing more that a squirt of glyco mid spring & mid autumn as everything that comes up through the mulch is by definition a weed .
Look up "no till" gardens for detailed instructions .
A little time consuming to initally install but bugger all work once done
Anywhere that is not used for walking over or playing on do the same but go for something like a prostrate grevillea which is good because they can be propogated from slip cuttings easily and you can mix the up with reds & yellows .
Gardens are far less work than lawns
If your lawn is full of bare patches then obviously the grass does not want to grow there or you dog thinks it is a gardener , so why grow it ?
Cheap plastic surround , same mulch as you used along the fence & a mellaucia .
Hundreds of tea tress to pick from , gain most will grow from cuttings .
I had a problem spot in a rented house so I put in over 100 of them over the 10 years I was there .
The leaves & flowers they dropped made a matting on the ground that effectivly surpressed grass growth so again 2 or 3 sprays with round up kept the ground mulch clean
Beautiful scents permiated through the house , blocked passing pedesterians view over the side fence , provided lots of dappled shade and quickly became chockers with small birds .
IF you work with nature life will be a lot easier and no matter what nature always wins
