Thyme for a lawn! (Vic)

These are my lazy half-arsed cuttings that I’m using to make a replacement lawn in a south facing patch with heavy shade, dappled light (not much) annnd it’s under a big bottlebrush with constant leaf fall.

3 I stupidly paid for when I only needed 1so $15. The pots are handy however and essential to the project. From now on I’ll buy other plants and just do cuttings of the thyme, things like capsicum, baby’s tears, strawberries and such.

The potting mix is home made. Grab cuttings (I have tested the half-arsedness of this by not using hormone powder), fill the pot with soil and push the cuttings into the soil. Cut the bottom off a soft drink bottle and push it into the top of the pot and soil.

I then water it until water runs out the bottom and “plant it in the ground where I’ll be planting it for good. I’ll admit I’m blessed to inherit good soil in this spot. I water them with the other parts of the garden and I should have started a year ago.

The eventual plan is to have a mixture of lemon and pizza thyme lawn replacement that I “mow” every 6 or so weeks if it even needs it. The bees will love it and it will need bugger all water. Different parts of the garden will smell different just by walking on the groundcovers.

Not an ad for PepsiCo, just lazy.