Greens lawns to return...

I dumped a couple of tons of good quality topsoil and a couple of trailerloads of horse manure onto my front lawn early last autumn, giving me over 5 inches of good soil. There’s clay underneath, but it means whenever it rains the soil layer captures and holds heaps of water, which seems to last for a couple of weeks at least. Also, I cut the grass at the longest possible setting on the mower, meaning the plants themselves can store more water. If we could water lawns once per week (even if just by hand), I reckon I could have a moderately green lawn for most of summer. Of course, whenever it rained (reasonable fall) I wouldn’t need to water for a week or more anyway.

There’s always a negative if you look hard enough

This announcement will come as a grave disappointment to a number of people on here (you know who you are) who were hoping that the dams would near empty this summer; as proof of global wooming, and as standing in the shower with buckets would lead us to repent our supposed profligate water use.

Yeah why not. Lawns, grass what ever has a place and seeing all the dead horrid places around is not a nice sight. I think that the drought has woken us up to waste, but it is an evil we really need to have, so the planners should be planning for it rather than calling to ban or charge yet more for it.

We don’t have lawns at our place – just vast expanses of grass (a nice mix of paspalum, rye, couch, bindi’s, dandilions and the occasional native poa. The kids love to play on it though, so this is great news.

I would welcome the chance to water the lawn once in a while (I doubt I’d get to it once a week.) Mine has good bits and bad bits, depending on what is in the shade or downhill. I’d just water the bits that are marginal.

But – I’m more interested in are we going to be allowed to use sprinkler systems once a week?

Cos I have one and it is so annoying not to be able to turn it on, and I don’t want to pay thousands to have it turned into drippers.

I wouldn’t water the lawn again – the grey water from the washing machine works well.

Our lawn is pretty green at the moment due to the rain in recent times. As for being allowed to water, I would rather not. If I can water it, then I am expected to. Not being able to is good 🙂