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Budget lawn renovation

Grub80
Making a Splash
Grub80
Grub80
Making a Splash

 

Dethatching a lawn with a scarifier and revitalising it with liquid fertilisers.

 

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The project

 

Like many of us, the cost of living is a hot topic, and since living in my home, I haven’t had the confidence to renovate my existing Kikuyu lawn. I didn’t want to spend a huge amount of money but I bit the bullet. Here are the results of my efforts and the items I used, all purchased from Bunnings. 

 

Before we began, there was a deep thatch.

 

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Best purchase ever. My Ryobi scarifier.

 

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After the dethatching.

 

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I invested in this spreader a few years ago. Soil soaker applied.

 

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Great invention from Holman to apply liquid applications.

 

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Soil soaker from Richgro.

 

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Give the lawn a health tonic. Garden Basics Seaweed Liquid.

 

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Liquid fertiliser applied last.

 

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How the Holman soaker works.

 

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Comments
Dave-1
Community Megastar

Good Afternoon @Grub80 

hahahahah Love it!

The best photo is of you watering and what I suspect holding the camera as far as you can in the other :smile: Done that so many times!

 

I have looked at my tired lawn so many times and debated to bring it back, to turn it over, to grow a meadow style lawn. You have pushe dit toward sthe "bring it back" Might give it a go instead of  converting the lawn :smile:

Nice job and love how you have shown what you did.

 

Dave

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