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Old 05-10-2007, 03:41 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default Establishing a lawn

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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"~Ellie~" wrote in message
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Hi! I've decided to start working on our garden... at the moment it's a
big bare block of dirt, with weeds starting to rear their nasty little
heads everywhere.

I'm attempting to grow a blue couch lawn from seed, one section at a
time, due to financial constraints.

I have just one question to begin with, but I'm sure many more will
follow

Can I use grey water (washing machine, shower) to water the lawn as it
germinates, or will there be too much phospherous, etc in the water? It
has already got a lawn starter fertiliser on the soil.

Thanks in advance for any replies!


Do you need a lawn for small children to play on? You could save much
water, expense and work by not having a lawn. There are alternatives.

David

Do you think that establishing a large garden without lawn is cheap? I
wouldn't. Despite all other issues like drought, etc I would have thought
that lawn would be reasonably cheap to setup, especially if you need to do a
large block.
We have planned only one patch of lawn and it's in the backyard. The grey
water from the laundry seems to keep it going well. The front will be garden
beds with low water use plants, path and driveway. Not cheap to establish.
The backyard is almost complete though.

Liz