With the ground all prepared in the test patch... all that was required was to pick up the lawn rolls and lay them out! We did visit the turf centre together, and although we had initially had the idea that we could have the lush all year blend... which is totally beautiful... we were told that it requires quite a good deal of maintainence, which is fine if you have a gardening staff, but less good if you are on and off gardeners! Summer watering of about four times a day... not so resistant to grubs, not really self healing, and quite sensitive to the ground layer... well, it would look amazing, but in the end, after a few months with us... likely a dead brown mess!

So, we ended up settling on a San Anna cooch grass... much hardier, but it does go dormant and brown in the winter seasons. Fine with us! As long as it stays alive!

I returned the next day to pick up the first batch of about 24 rolls, making for about 16 square metres. Not a huge patch, but more than enough as a first start! Luckily it all fit in our Mazda CX5, and I was warned by my wife to bring lots of tarps to make sure it wasn't a huge cleanup afterwards... still a bit of a clean up with that much soil, but nothing that a short vacuum session couldn't fix!

Here we are... all ready to start rolling them out. I had read a few tips and pointers on it... and the lawn guys also gave us some hints. Thankfully, we had the hardier variant, so something that was going to be a bit more forgiving to our lack of experience!

The first line done... as tight I could make it... but also thinking that I should maybe have compacted the soil layer first! Oooops... well, I would do that at the same time as laying out the rolls in that case!

... and the completed test patch! 24 rolls, not too much of a problem... and now it will need about two weeks of steady watering to help the roots establish into the topsoil. I know that there are grubs around... so, I'm hoping that they establish quickly to prevent them being bug food... but perhaps I should also treat the area around it as well. On the list of things to do. Now, we are planning to extend the test patch a little bit further to where you can see the wooden pallets. The weed and unwanted grass is much thinner to that point... but around the clothes hoist, we will have a tougher time of clearing. Plus, we need a new clothes-line after the kids were swinging on this and got it out of the ground...

... and the second project, kill the snails and slugs that are chomping out little seedlings. I can only do so many by hand... so, now is the time to resort to a bit more firepower.

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