Is your Lawn a Lawn, or just Grass, or simply Weeds?

Because of the current drought and resulting Water restrictions, most people’s lawns in Melbourne, have long died. However after some recent showers, our back lawn in particular, greened up again and from a distance looked real good. However on closer inspection, one finds that it is not the good original lawn grasses growing, but the plainer tougher grasses or even weeds themselves that are growing.

From a distance they look okay but up close, all is revealed as not being what it should be.

Many people today are like my back lawn. From a distance they look okay and appear as what they should be like, or like what they want you to think they are like, but up close, all is revealed, and all is not how it first appears from a distance.

What about you? Is the picture that you give at a distance the true you, or just a picture that you would like others to believe is true?

In the case of my lawn, I can do nothing now but when the drought is over and Spring rolls around I have to decide whether I will go to all the trouble of re-sowing the whole lawn: or try to over-sow the worst areas: or leave it as it is, and claim it to be not worth the time, energy and money to restore it to what it should be.

What about your life? Is there something in your life that should be changed but you haven’t yet come to a decision as to whether it is worth the effort?

I can’t and won’t proscribe to you what you should do, but the time to make the decision is now, so that you will have time before the due “Spring” (whatever time that will be to your project) to make the necessary preparations and to budget for your project.

As it is only the back lawn and we have lots of trees, it just isn’t worth doing more than over-sowing in the right season and living with the resulting situation.

What about with you? Is your “Lawn” worth the effort?

If so, what are you going to do about it? Again the time to start preparations is now.

Over to you: Walter