Green grass

Garden update, we have laid the lawn, including underground drip irrigation and almost finished planting the beds. Zoran's father and brother came up from Wollongong about a week ago and helped lay the grass.


(Sifting stones: the amazing amount of rock involved, and this is a small sample of the stone pile)
The week preceeding that my dad, Zoran's dad and Zoran and Jasper and I sifted tonnes and tonnes of soil to separate out the rocks and, after laying out the rows of irrigation pipe, covered and raked soil across the top.


(Irrigation pipe at 30cm intervals across the site)


(The sifted soil raked over the irrigation lines)

The grass was delivered on Saturday morning and brought down the escarpment and we layed it out and pressed it down, pretty bright green on the dry site.


It is a drought tolerant variety of grass which is great although it does need regaular watering for the first three weeks to encourage the new roots to bed down, so we have set up sprinklers and have a water permit to grant us water use for the first six weeks where we start with three times a day watering and each week weaning the grass off water until it only needs water for 15 minutes twice a week in the evening, wednesdays and Sundays.


(The finished lawn!!)

The vegie patch is going well, we picked out first Zucchini today!!! We will also have loads of cucumbers and peppers in about three weeks or so. I'm looking forward to making some zucchini flower dishes, al la Giorgio!

Txx