Turf saws and lawns
Breakfast early this morning on the belvedere deck and what a view of the Skiddaw range in the bright sunshine. I had a chance also to get a good aerial view from the deck of the new levelled south lawn. Only five weeks after the new turf was laid it’s looking superb (see photo). It could have been there for months.
I’d asked Rob our landscape gardener the secrets for laying good lawns. “They say there’s just three things – good turf, plenty of top soil and butt the turf up well against the last roll…oh yes and rain too”. Well he seems to have got it right to judge by the colour and thickness, but I’d add another – sun.
The last two days have been almost mediterranean in heat, with a temperature yesterday of 25° Celsius on the belvedere deck. After a morning’s work in the garden I was more than glad of that shady seat on the new lawn.
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