I have a depressingly destroyed lawn. Partly dog damage, partly lack of care.

Its mostly buffalo, but some couch self seeded and grows better than the buffalo does, so i’m inclined to leave it and let the two types grow where they like it most. Is this a good idea?

We are thinking to get some top soil, but don’t know what time of year to put it on.

We also need to replace the sprinklers, but i haven’t really found a type/brand that i’m happy with yet.

Any ideas and advice anybody has would be greatly appreciated!

  • PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    If you are just after adding some green to the lawn, and not to fussed about two different grasses growing, I recommend Garden Basics 1kg Tough And Hardy Lawn Seed. I have had a lot of success with my lawn, either growing back grass from where I went scorched earth with weed killer, or growing grass back from removed garden beds. I got about 5-6 boxes of it, and sprinkled it around my front and back yard before we got all that rain here in Brisbane, plus a little bit of fertiliser to help.

    Here are some photos of the growth, following from death by weed killer.

    Front yard

    Back yard

    Lemon tree base

    The following are before and after, about a month apart from each other. Re-growing from removed garden beds.

    Tree 1 garden bed

    Tree 2 garden bed

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Wow! Yeah, thats coming back nicely. Maybe i’ll have a look at these lawn seeds again. I saw them at bunnings the other day and wondered if they might be the go to cover the patches for now. Cheers!