Monday, June 07, 2010
New Year New Lawn
Visiting Christchurch and Nelson where everyone 
has nice lawns, (a combination of nice soil, nice weather), reminded us what a scurffy patch of mown weeds our single flat piece of ground was. So the decision was taken to lay down some ready lawn. this meant removing the hardpacked clay layer left from the excavations. With steps above and steps below, a wheel barrow was unusable so it was back to the fish bucket and chuckit method. The lawn was only 10m2 but needed excavating 100mm, so that was a cubic metre of earth to shift, armload at a time down steps. Then trailer load of Topsoil was deposited onthe footpath , and half a cubic metre was portered down from the road, along with half a cubic metre of sand (left over fromthe new creche sandpit project of last year) So in total 2 cubic metre of soil had to be moved , oh and then it rained, the rainest wettest summer in memory. The soil weight must have doubled. When ti dried out enough to rake level we went up to the grass farm and loaded the car up with 12 rolls of wet green grass. The Grass farm said make sure to water it well, being February now. They said a rotary sprinkler would be best, but we had something even more effective, a 4 year old in control of a hose!
has nice lawns, (a combination of nice soil, nice weather), reminded us what a scurffy patch of mown weeds our single flat piece of ground was. So the decision was taken to lay down some ready lawn. this meant removing the hardpacked clay layer left from the excavations. With steps above and steps below, a wheel barrow was unusable so it was back to the fish bucket and chuckit method. The lawn was only 10m2 but needed excavating 100mm, so that was a cubic metre of earth to shift, armload at a time down steps. Then trailer load of Topsoil was deposited onthe footpath , and half a cubic metre was portered down from the road, along with half a cubic metre of sand (left over fromthe new creche sandpit project of last year) So in total 2 cubic metre of soil had to be moved , oh and then it rained, the rainest wettest summer in memory. The soil weight must have doubled. When ti dried out enough to rake level we went up to the grass farm and loaded the car up with 12 rolls of wet green grass. The Grass farm said make sure to water it well, being February now. They said a rotary sprinkler would be best, but we had something even more effective, a 4 year old in control of a hose!So that was late January and most of February! But it sure looks good, should have done it ages ago.
# posted by Jack and Katrina @ 8:48 am 
