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GardenDan
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Australia
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 Posted - 29/12/2008 : 18:26:53
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Gail, you may recall that I mentioned quite some time ago that I had to try to encourage grass coverage. Your advice at that stage included mowing regularly with blades set high. Well I have been doing just that and now we have a reasonable coverage...patchy in some parts but quite good in others. This morning I again transplanted some turf sods to begin coverage in one of the "bald" patched. Tonight I have been up mowing the section right up the back. We are even beginning to get some basic coverage there. So your advice was, as usual, very good. Thanks heaps. It is very poor soil up there so I may put some fertilizer up there to give it a feed. Thanks again!!!!!!!
Daniel
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 30/12/2008 : 04:18:00
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I did reply to this last night but my post has gone walkabout. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that the grass is coming along, It takes a while but with time and patience you will get there... some rain would help too 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
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Posted - 30/12/2008 : 07:03:46
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we had a little rain last night. I have again this morning been transplanting sods of turf from down the front. I took two ute trays of it...just one layer each time...and put it in bald patches.
Daniel
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 31/12/2008 : 04:15:58
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You'll get there eventually  but that is what we did with the kikuya... only a small patch a couple of metres square when we moved here but whenever we've had some rain I will pull a few runners out and move it to a bare patch around the yard. Some of those runners didn't survive though... I don't know what the attraction is but the dogs love to dig up a newly planted runner 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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GardenDan
gardener
Australia
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Posted - 31/12/2008 : 21:37:05
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Another ute tray of grass up the back today...but not sure survival will be easy...37 degrees here today apparently. I was painting at my daughters house at The Gap. I will water again in the morning before onslaught again tomorrow.
Daniel
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