Okay... a few days spare over since the end of our last ensemble concert and before the start of the next project, and I have time to keep moving on our lawn project in the backyard!

I had cleared out a largish area already... taken off most of the topsoil as well as the unwanted weeds and grass, all by hand... so a slow process... but it is what we have! You can see the overgrown wild grass at the back... and the grass that I planted just before winter in the nearer background.... and I'm pretty chuffed, that first batch was an experiment to see if it would take hold, and it is now established and growing nicely. Lesson learnt though... it wasn't enough to weed and degrasss the area, I needed to really take more soil with it to prevent unwanted bits and pieces coming through...

And I needed to have a new batch of sandy loam delivered as well... the old stuff, well, there wasn't much of it left... and the stuff that was still there was rife with weeds and unwanted grass! Just a cubic metre, and the delivery cost more than the actual sand... but again, I can't use it that fast... and I have no other way of getting it here!

The lawn on the other hand... was more than easy enough to pick up... I somehow underestimated the amount that I needed... I thought just one trip with 10 metres square would be enough... but I needed to go back for a second identical load to cover the area that I had already cleared! Probably should have used a tape measure rather than a rough pacing!

While I was at the lawn centre, I picked up some fertiliser for the already established part of the lawn... it is going well, but I want it to choke out the stuff that we don't want!

I slashed back the wild grass and weeds... but of course, midway through the whipper-snipper ran out of cord... I'm getting good at changing it now!

I think a few more days of this, and I will have reached my goal of getting to the end of this section! Which means that we will have a solid block of lawn from which we can start going around the other direction to fill out the entire back area! Slow progress, but it is steady! I do prefer the incremental model for this rather than the attempt to do it all in one go... we aren't strong enough, and we don't have large blocks of time!

Heh... you can definitely see the difference between the newly laid stuff and the old established one... got to water it pretty solidly to help it root and establish!

Oh right... that was why the dirt and lawn was so hard to move... the wheel was flat!

I had been picking out these seeds from the San Ana Cooch that we have laid down... I had understood that the cooch was spread only by runners and so I figured that these seeds were from an unwanted grass. But after more research... it appears that the San Ana Cooch DOES have seeds... but they are sterile! So... leave them there!

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