It was December last year when our first liquid lawn was laid. We promptly fell into a drought and despite watering gallons of water on the lawn it was a bit of a failure. After much gnashing and wailing (well, actually a bit of a chat) with the landscapers it was agreed we’d try again when conditions improved.
As as lawn growing is concerned this has meant waiting till Spring. There’s been some remedial work to fill in holes, remove paddock grass and top dressing the patches of grass we have managed to grow before the man with the liquid lawn returned.
If you’re wondering what liquid lawn looks like you can see from the picture above. It’s a strange green blue substance that contains seed and a fertiliser to give it the best chance to grow. Here’s a few pictures to show the liquid lawn in action.
Fun eh! It couldn’t have taken more than 30 minutes for him to spray the bare patches which only left me then with the challenge of keeping the dogs off the whole area. Hmm, easier said than done. It’s basically required temporary fencing around most of the house. It’s not that attractive but needs must.
Can you believe it though the lawn man said “you might want to fence off the full lawn area from the rabbits”. I decided that I’d better sit out there with a shot gun as the number of rabbits we have on our land and their likelihood of staying off with my fencing efforts is a miracle that’s never going to happen.
Second thoughts, I could send out Fortnum and Mason to learn how to do rabbit hunting. Yeah right?!
First time I’ve seen a ‘liquid’ lawn. Half of the lawns here I didn’t even seed, they just grew. Do you think the lawn man has a brother who is a fencing contractor ? Hope that you have just enough rain to get your grass established properlyand all those lovely plants growing vigorously.
That’s hilarious! Hope it works! Good luck on keeping the rabbits at bay and well done on putting up all that fencing! I think there’s some rain forecast over the next few days….
we’ve also been putting down grass seed on a little bare patch – but it’s small enough to regularly dust with water vapour and we’re enjoying watching it grow.
There’s so much colour emerging everywhere and the vibrancy of the varying shades of green in the bush is divine at the moment.
Our lawn is the bane of Hubby’s existence.
And exactly how do you discourage a pack of rabbits?
Thanks for coming by on my BATW day!
We so desperately want to change our ‘landscaped’ stone into grass but after a quote from a guy to seed it it may have to wait! Not only that we would have to dig it all out ourselves ready….long job. Is MT ready for all that mowing?? x