Turf

We finally made up our minds to get the back garden turfed by professionals. The date was set to be the Saturday of the October long weekend. We spent the previous weeks obtaining qutoes (4 quotes, 3 quotes were very similar and one was strangly cheap, we chose the most expensive one), deciding on grass variety (Sapphire Buffalo) and preparing the ground (killing weeds). The skip bin arrived the day before, but turf was delivered on the day (because it was quite wet the week leading to the Saturday so turf farmers couldn't cut any ealier).

Because of some mix-up, the turf cutter didn't arrive until nearly 8am, even though the grass was delivered and guys were waiting to start the work. But once work was started, the guys kept going and going. At one stage, it looked like work would not be finished on the day, but somehow everything got done before it got dark.

The garden went from this:


to this in under 10 hours. Amazing!


Now 10 cubic meters of "Forest Blend" mulch is sitting on the driveway waiting to be moved to their rigthful place in the back garden!