Hi Cirillo,
You are spot on regarding the thickness from most lawn suppliers. The sellers that use the Lawn Farms from down Langhorne Creek way have the lawn at about 25mm thick and this stresses the lawn very quickly. This is why I had issues with mine taking so long to establish itself. It spends the first month just in self survival mode before it even thinks about wanting to spread side ways. I recall the days (1980's) when Santa Ana was sold in 12 square inch blocks and designed for cutting into plugs. This way it had lots of root system attached and would start spreading side ways within two weeks. I recall in the original lawn I planted out at Parafield Gardens, I had full coverage within 5 weeks, now that's quick !
The reason why they cut it so short today is so that it takes up less room and weight on the trucks for transportation and secondly (the main reason) most of the root system is left in the ground and all they have to do is a light top dressing and 12 months later they can re-harvest the next lot of grass for sale from the same spot. This way they don't need masses of land to do the farming on.
I will keep SA Turf on top of my list for recommendation to others. Also the price seems far more competitive than all the other sellers.
Again a great outcome you've achieved.
Cheers,
BB
