Gardening - The Green is spreading slowly.

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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa

In recent times I expressed how working 173x 12 hour shifts in a year can lead your garden to dying, including the lawn. Apparently two teenage boys who play in the garden do not have enough common sense to do something about it!

Anyway. It was up to be to fix it and this is the progress so far.

I am looking forward to winter and some free water (rain) but in the meantime I needed to protect what growth I had from the baking sun.

So I put some shade cloth down. Though I wet the whole lawn every 2-3 days, this area would get more water because I knew I would lose less here to evaporation.

The result is that I got quite a lot of grass growing and they are starting to reach their nearest neighbors and matt together. I hope to soon be in a position where I can move the shade cloth up and repeat the process!

So not quite as green looking as a Death Guard Terminator Lord, but it will have to do.

In the meantime I HAVE been able to keep these Strawberry plants alive that @lex-zaiya gave me. I will probably have to give them some attention so I can make them spread into some of the other containers and possibly into one of the raised beds... I don't think I mind that it spreads.

I also caved in to this purchase of Rosemary Living Herb had at Foodlover's Market.

Upon closer inspection I see that there are actually 5x plants in this container. I think my next step other than keeping them alive is to separate each of the 5 plants into their own pots.

Eventually, if they grow nicely I want to make cuttings and propagate the batch more and more because I need enough Rosemary in the house so that @clairemobey does not use ALL of it in her cooking and kill the plants.