Good bye devil dirt.
So my lawn, you know, my, my pride and joy.
Well, it used to look like this.
'HALLELUJAH'
And then it all kind of went terribly wrong, and it kind of died a bit.
So there comes a time in any Dad's lawn growing journey
where you just really get over it.
Because I put in so much work into,
when this lawn was amazing, and then it just got ripped out from under me.
But today, I've got the fix on how to fix your lawn fast.
I bought a pool!
Pool's gonna...
this pool answers a majority of my lawn issues.
Just cover it up.
Then I'll try and fix the little outside bits and soon,
see these happy people?
That'll be me.
And look at this lawn around the pool.
Then you only have to care about this bit of lawn and this bit of lawn.
This is me!
It's not small.
It's 7.3 meters by 3.6
or 24 feet by 12 feet.
So me and the wife made a plan on exactly where we would kind of
put it, just ended up being in the middle to be honest.
Uh but first what we want to do now is steal any good grass
that actually does still exist here in Death Alley.
See this lawn here?
This is what we want to naturally take over.
This is called Kikuyu or we call it Kikuyu, but see how it's a spreading lawn.
So first, what I've got to do is I've got to do a bit of transplanting.
So I'm going to cut out these good bits and I'll go and transport
that like into bits like that because this is the pool edge.
This will be the nice green grass.
That's a dog poop.
Grass growing.
Some days you have months of bad luck.
Other days you have great little wins.
Now I got to find somewhere to put this...
Here's the edge of my pool, roughly.
So this dirt patch is going to be replaced
with this luscious lawn.
Don't you pee on it alrught?
Not you, the dog.
Look, I'll just quickly jump in here,
because I know a lot of you are going to be like, 'oh, no, wonder
you've got bad lawn, man, you've got a dog'
And we thought the same thing, right?
Because she's a girl,
and it's known that the wees can leave like burn holes in your grass.
But like, a few years ago, we heard about these mineral rocks
that go in her water bowl, and then it, like, neutralises her wees.
So I unfortunately can't blame any of my grass woes on, on the dog.
So it's, you know, it's all just it's like I dunno what's it like, me?
Or like a voodoo....
Someone's done like some voodoo, someone, someone hates me somewhere....
Anyway, back to the...
Right my plan was just to make the holes nice and fluffy.
Mix a bit of fancy left over soil I had and use this fancy expensive thing
because it cost me a lot of money.
And it was just in the shed.
Oh, how good!
So the sides don't dry out.
How good is that?
You wouldn't even know
These are kikuyu runners.
These are things that spread horizontally across the lawn
looking to root themselves down and spread
And what you do is you actually just dig a hole down
and then you'll plant that in like that,
leave the top out
and that will catch. So I'm going to get the kids to go around
and just cut some of these runners
KID: Oh yeah! I am!
KID: Only ones with the roots?
See this? See this?
This is all good.
Or even do this, look.
Oooo that's good, put that there.
What technique is this?
Look at this pile of goodness
So...
How to MUM's gonna go around and plant these little things about.
Right, so I've done some seamless transplants.
Out of this
whole pool area, the only lawn we've actually really taken is from here.
Everything else is just ugly stuff you don't really want.
Hey, are you going to help or just do rope stuff?
It's time to set it up.
Right is says, comically, 30 minutes. We'll see how that goes.
This box weighs a ton, and there's actually two boxes, so uh.
The part of the video where it turns to how to build a pool.
That's one box, poles and stuff so I'm guessing there's like a big pool
skin in here.
I don't know if these people come with the....
They may be in there...
Oh there's the pool.
What's that? Oh, God, the people did come in it! Oh is that you?
Ok we're 15 minutes into our 30 minute set up time.
They got letters on them ay? Yep.
So all the 'A's' go somewhere...
and then all the things go, wait.
45 minutes and we've already had a fight and realized that the instructions suck
so now I'm going Google trying to find a video on how to set up a swimming pool...
Wait wait wait.
Yeah, yep.
We're gettin' there.
No lie we're an hour and a half into what was meant to be 30 minutes...Just
trying to put together the nuclear reactor here.
Oh it's alright.
they've got amazing pictures and no words it's really good...
Day 21 and the struggle with this ladder continues...
There there was no booklet, there was no booklet on the ladder.
That's all me!
What lawn?
She's a beast.
I just need to fill it and hope my nuclear reactor doesn't explode and I'm guessing
it's going to take a couple of days to bloody fill up to be honest....
How do you fix your lawn that you just want to get rid of?
Cover it in a pool.
Ignore the wall, it's still filling up.
Ignore that. I couldn't wait. Got to finish this video, right? Yeah.
I couldn't really wait for it to fill up.
It's going to take quite a few days
you know, just pretend it's full right now and I'm the happy guy off the box
havin' a great ol' time because I've just covered the majority
of my broken, damaged devil lawn with a pop up pool
that only took, you know, four or five hours to put together.
But the idea with this dirt, look,
we've got a bit more of these random Kikuyu lumps to stick around
and we'll just maybe throw, if I've got some old seed, I was going to chuck it down.
I don't care.
Just let the kikuyu do its thing, the pools here...
The ladder that again, came with no instructions
and took way longer but pools are almost as much fun
putting up as trying to grow grass...
And that's the story
of how I fixed my lawn.
It's still filling up.
It's going to be a long time, so we'll just...