Lawn Progress
Last week I posted about my new lawn. A lot of prep went in to getting the soil and levels right, irrigation, and of course the rolling and compacting of the lawn. [gallery link="file" columns="2"] Ten days later and things are going very well. The lawn is looking great, growing fast, and happy in it's new environment. It's doing so well that it's pretty much ready for its first mow. I'll be giving it a buzz sometime this week. Not too short! I applied for exemption from the Water Corporation, for watering in and establishing new lawn. They posted me a watering schedule, which I've programmed in to my irrigation controller. The lawn is happy with the watering which in it's current 2nd week is 2x waterings of 5mm per day, every day. I had to program some of the zones differently, as one zone is on regular pop-up style sprinkler nozzles, and other zones are on MP Rotator nozzles (which deliver 1/3rd the water of a regular nozzle) Here's some information on the type of lawn I've installed:
Palmetto Buffalo Grass is a tough, soft leaf Buffalo, that is available Australia wide. This turf provides a lawn grass that has excellent winter colour, and can generally out compete weeds when established. Palmetto Buffalo Grass generally requires less watering and less mowing than most other turf varieties available in Instant Turf rolls or slabs, and in Viro-Cell Lawn for patch up.Stenotaphrum secundatum 'SS100' is the genus, species and cultivar name of this turf. Thus 'SS100' is the cultivar or variety name of the turf. Palmetto is the trade name, or brand name. more on the Palmetto web page
