Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jan 07, 2014 8:49 am Hi. We recently bought a house. Everything was new and nice inside, but the outside needed a lot of work. We focused on the back yard because it's fenced in, and wanted to priorotize having a place for my son to play. That's more or less done - hired someone to come in and lay some turf for a reasonable price. Anyway, it's time to start thinking about the front yard. While we don't "use" it much as it's right on a corner, it'd be nice to not have a depressing looking front to the house. The grass, what grass there is, is just awful, dry, and there's plenty of blank spots and some weeds. It'll be to expensive to lay down new grass on the front yard as it's much bigger, but at the same time, it's not nearly as time sensitive as fixing up the back lawn was, so I can afford to wait and try and grow, etc. But I just have no idea how to begin/what to do. The back yard has kikuyu, which I understand is quite aggressive and can grow in a lot of conditions. It seems logical to try and plant the same in the front lawn. But I'm just not sure what kind of prep I need to do - do I need to kill what's out there, or can I just start laying seed and watering, etc. Here's a photo, not for the faint of heart. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/jzex.jpg/ Thanks for any advice. Re: How to fix this lawn? 2Jan 10, 2014 10:01 am Whilst I can't really advise you on how to prepare for lawn (I've never done it myself after seeing how much time and effort my dad and grandfather have put into such projects - I just don't have the time), I can ask if you have ever considered hiring someone to come in and do the front yard for you? Whilst it might seem like an expensive option (and it surely is), I know of many people who have attempted to do their own gardens only for something to go completely wrong or for everything to die and they have ended up getting professionals in anyway. This just blows out the budget for many people, and it's quite disheartening to have everything die on you (I know it was for me). I know of this great place (www.turningjapanesemelbourne.com.au) that does some really nice looking, low maintenance gardens - it might be worth taking a look? Going back to your original points, however, I think it does make sense to use the same lawn that you have used in the backyard. Whilst someone like me probably wouldn't notice, if you ever tried to sell and had an avid gardener come through they surely would. Plus, you said that the type you have already used seems to grow in all environments, which is something that your front yard would probably benefit from! Hey guys, what’s everyone opinion on James Hardie linea direct fix to frame? Would this be the most common method and anybody ever had any problems down the track? 0 5141 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair If the railhead is so poorly fixed it is also likely that the railhead is also non compliant, what about overflows and sealing railhead to the gutters?. 3 5966 |