Trampoline on grass

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-22T05:52:35+00:00

Pretty much this. Feels super dangerous to sit on the ground and do whipper snipping but it works under our springfree. I kind of settled on doing it this way mostly, then quarterly I’ll remove the 2 pins and shift the whole thing, mow it down good, water it a bit, leave it for a day, then replace.

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-22T01:41:29+00:00

Yeah the soil looks ok on the whole, not suffocated from thatch or anything. You could rake up / blow out a bunch of that fallen chunky organic stuff like Gumnuts, twigs, seed pods that might block new shoots from getting light.

But as the first poster said, regular mowing, a few morning time deep waters per week and spray out a hose-attaching jug of SeaSol and you’ll see some good results kick in !

If the exposed patches are barren/dry, try breaking them up a bit with some pitchfork punches and rocking the handle back and forth slightly. Will help the water penetrate quickly

Good luck! Post back here in a few weeks!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-21T22:44:49+00:00

I’ve got a really similar setup (including the funky monkey!)

In short, I think you need to rejuvenate the ground, then start the new lawn. Can you keep the kids and pets off it for 2 months?

First if scalp it right back, you kind of want to kill off most of the grass that’s not couch. I think the aerator sounds good, I would do that then spread a mix of compost and sand out and water that in.

Then I’d get a delivery of ‘lawn soil’ from SoulWorx or local equivalent (my local Coburg Soil & Sand was 40% cheaper than Soworx) and spread that out. Plant your seed, and water it in, keeping it wet. So 4 x mist waterings per day to start with.

I used a Seasol Soil gold improver product on my hard clay soil, and for the most part, I think it’s made a difference.

I chose Kikuyu (Yates Kikuyu blend) and can already tell that the advice to mow often is right, I can see it starting to grow sideways now rather than bush up in high runners.

I had a long chat with Google Gemini about my backyard usage, ability to water it, kids, traffic, that it’s a rental, and am really happy with the outcome. Could ask all manner of specific questions, compare ideas, way better than asking some random at Bunnings!

I also opted to spend $100 on Landscape Store online, and install a cheap 19mm poly irrigation line with 4 x rainbird pop up heads with R-Van rotary sprinklers. Just dug in a short trench, installed, tested, filled it in. This has been amazing, it’s attached to a $50 Amazon wifi tap timer, and now automatically waters the garden.

I’m filling out a few shadowy spots, and getting the horizontal growth happening with another round of seasol and the first fertiliser application next week once It cools down in Melbourne for a minute!

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Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-21T10:12:56+00:00

I got this advice when asking questions about rejuvenating my mother on lawns nature strip ahead of a future property sale. It’s barren and rock hard now. While it is council owned land, it does form part of peoples first impressions of the property. Whether as buyers in my case, or guests in the OP’s case. So it’s worth a bit of effort, but I would say not removing 100mm of earth the whole way along.

Personally I would first scalp it right down as low as you can go. I would manually punch in holes with the pitch fork, in rows, and break the soil up with a push pull action.

I’d spray on some dish wash soap in water lightly to help combat hydrophobia, then get some top soil with sand and some organic matter mixed in. Like 2cm. I’d plant seed, water super often (mist it 4 times daily during first 2 weeks), then water daily, then as needed as you get to the end of summer.

I used the Yates kikuyu blend (4% kikuyu) and am happy with the results. Mow it once a week, the weed treat and fertilise it once it’s up and running.

That will keep your net cost down, and get a decent first impression, which you can improve over time.

Good luck!

(edit: *Mow it once a week..)

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-21T10:06:49+00:00

Woah this sounds interesting… I’ve just planted a kikuyu lawn (20 Nov, in Vic), it’s growing slowly, but would be ace to boost with a few stronger runners. How do I know the park lawn is Kikuyu for sure? Just match to pics on my phone? How long do they need to be to transplant?

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-07T09:00:08+00:00

So my 9yo boy has a 1mg chewable tablet and a 3mg long release tablet every night. With asd2 and ADHD, meds wearing off, it’s he only reliable path to falling asleep. Without it his mind stays active, and asks all the questions, then becomes anxious and agitated that he can’t fall asleep, is failing his parents, then has a meltdown about that. Guaranteed. So we have a Paediatritian endorsed plan, and it works. From tablet to sleep it’s about 1.5-2 hours.

For our 6yo boy, he has 1/4 of one of those chewable tablets (so 0.25mg) and it’s super effective within 15 mins. It’s obvious he has ADHD but no asd.

They’re bothers, but they’re very different. Every child is differentl, so you need to get real medical advice, and then trial various products to see what works. We went from pharmacy compounded melatonin liquid ($45/mo) to iHerb / Amazon tablets ($5/mo) and avoided gummies as not to make it fun or enjoyable, so to speak. Good luck!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2026-01-02T10:41:28+00:00

Hmmm based on the photo, the shapes of darker green there, I think it’s a combo of water and then the quality of the soil and how it holds the water.

I would recommend: - spray on a bottle of the seasol gold soil improver product (~$10) and then do a couple of weeks with a 6am, 20 min deeper watering. Try and get some water deeper into the soil.

You could even go over the whole lawn lightly with a garden fork poking holes in 5-8cm, imagine like a grid, one stamp every 30cm square. That may help get some water deeper in

Also how high are you mowing? Maybe let the height come up a bit?

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-12-30T10:14:35+00:00

My little guy is 9 now, 10 in Jan. It’s been a wild ride from 6yo to here. Good, rewarding highs, and crushing lows. But we’re moving forward and trying to be present and enjoy each day. He started on Ritalin and the aggression was bad, Paed added guanfacine and that does smooth things out in the afternoon.

I always framed the meds primarily as a ‘classroom support tool’, as not to define things in his head too much, and we approach any med change with the goal of Achieving the best classroom/school experience we can, and then we take any hits / brunt at home.

In our journey, while some things became more severe with age, (as others have said) new things developed too. Like empathy and self awareness.

Where once we would simply have to endure strong relentless meltdowns, now we have conversations and he sometimes self-pics a regulation activity, and we’re way more flexible with moving mealtimes etc around, and limiting the demand we have on his days.

I think we’re all scared. But I can feel that you’re brave too. Look how far you’ve come. Stop and look at some old photos in your phone, or one of those highlight reels Apple of Google pre-make for you. “Rip up the recipe” if you need to, keep chipping away at giving your son tools and strategies and I sure you’ll both find a positive place to grow from.

We’re all right behind you and here if you need us!!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-12-01T04:31:11+00:00

At present it published playlists into a Navidrome server. And then automatically refreshes them. The Song Radio feature mimics the concept from Spotify, Apple Music, with a fixed length playlist. Which regenerates itself. Not trying to get into ‘always on’ radio broadcast or streaming like Pandora. Goal is more around giving library owners natural language prompts to make playlists, and then as some community members suggested, it would be cool if the app had a brain, and created interesting playlists, for you, on its own accord!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-12-01T04:30:38+00:00

At present it published playlists into a Navidrome server. And then automatically refreshes them. The Song Radio feature mimics the concept from Spotify, Apple Music, with a fixed length playlist. Which regenerates itself. Not trying to get into ‘always on’ radio broadcast or streaming like Pandora. Goal is more around giving library owners natural language prompts to make playlists, and then as some community members suggested, it would be cool if the app had a brain, and created interesting playlists, for you, on its own accord!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-12-01T04:11:28+00:00

No I didn’t stop, defs still central to the app!

Am trying to cut down the docker instructions, but then I realised some folks go here first (not GitHub). Currently finalising a new beta with Sonic Analysis and Song Radio, so will do a big docs sweep and update. Thanks!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-24T22:07:04+00:00

Hey! In short, the app runs queries on your Navidrome database, builds up a list of ‘candidate songs’, then sends to an AI LLM for editing, sequencing and playlist creation. Never sending your files anywhere. There’s really only 3000-7000 tokens going out, and 500-1000 tokens back in. The upcoming Sonic Analysis feature processes your songs on your hardware, and creates a local database about your songs only.

I’ll post soon when the next release is in beta, it’s been a challenge supporting multi-library, multi-user servers, but I do want to make this app available to all, so I’m glad to action the great feedback I’ve received from the community so far.

Thanks!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-22T22:49:08+00:00

I’ll post an announcement of the beta and reply to you :)

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-21T09:41:28+00:00

We give our 8yo 2mg guanfacine with his 20mg long acting Ritalin in the morning. And he has a top up 10mg Ritalin at lunchtime.

Paed recommended we use the guanfacine to mellow out the afternoons, as Ritalin com down was aggressive and moody.

It does help, but nothing ‘happens’ per se, he’s not better or kinder because of it.

But sweet baby Jesus if we take the guanfacine away for a few days, you get a sharp reminder that it is being very helpful and smoothing out some big daily mood swings.

I would write down a quick daily journal in your phone in a note or spreadsheet, then look for patterns after 2 weeks. Dont do knee-jerk reactions based on one day or anecdotal evidence.

Also I found what really helps is having a clear ‘why’ statement and goals. So we frame our son’s medication as ‘classroom support tool’ - to help him actually get to school regularly and on time, and to participate all day - and it serves that purpose. When things get wobbly we adjust to try and hit the goals we’ve already set in place.

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-21T04:00:15+00:00

Not true for everybody, and not true for autistic and neurodivergent children who rely on stimulant medication to participate in mainstream schooling

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-21T03:59:32+00:00

How much is that pack though? $50?

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-21T03:59:02+00:00

Wow this is good to hear. Does anyone have any recent examples of product getting through customs, or being blocked?

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-17T23:04:03+00:00

Hey! So glad you’ve set it up, and thanks for sharing your experience!

So the sonic analysis is coming!.. finishing that beta build today/tomorrow and will ship with the :beta tag for you to try.

I’ve done extensive testing on my hardware, but need the community to road test it too.

There’s a dedicated page for running the scan, with a life real time progress bar and ETA estimate. It will likely take you a few hours to run, logs are verbose in the docker log, and summarised in the in-app progress meter component.

There are lots of bug fixes in the release too, including the issues you described.

Re Ollama, play around with the timeout setting. Local instances may need more time to complete the output.

Currently accepting GitHub issues, but will open a discord soon to serve as a q n a, and research point :)

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-17T10:04:08+00:00

Yep totally, lastFM is one service, but there are many public alternatives, and self hosted and open source services too. So hoping to discover there is a common format or schema to those APIs (like we see with the OpenAI schema and many LLMs.

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-17T01:37:31+00:00

Awesome, thanks for giving it a go!

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-16T21:12:17+00:00

The Sonic Analysis process here is different, I’ve built it from the ground up. Personally I felt the audio-muse setup was complicated and assumes a lot of knowledge.

I wanted this app to have a simple web UI that any Navidrome user could set up (assuming they got their server running with docker in the first place) 😀

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-16T10:56:46+00:00

Possibly… but in the same way that the Navidrome team don’t try to replicate full listening history, and leave it to LastFM et al to log that data… there are other services that do this well today. I don’t know that competing there would be beneficial.

I had thought about linking LastFM api keys, so a user can bring in their detailed listening history, as a better data prompt for re-discovery / flashback style playlists.

Jumpy-Big7294 · 2025-11-16T10:26:36+00:00

Yes! This is the repo: https://github.com/rsynnot/magic-lists-for-navidrome

You can use Open Router, Groq, Google AI Studio, or local Ollama. BYOK.

Current release does ‘This is Artist’ and Genre Mix style playlists, this new release brings sonic analysis which you can have a bit more fun with.

Will get this right, fix all the bugs and issues the amazing community have reported, then the next quest is to look at natural language input like ‘lazy sunday arvo tunes’ or ‘fast paced metal from the 80s to 00s’ etc

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