And that was me being slack. I only cut 2 times in the first year, once in the second. But in wet years (like we had), 4 cuts would have been possible each year (usually about every 6 weeks). I reckon I could have got it a bit deeper if I was onto it.

It’s a near flat gully in a flood plain where it grows with a smaller catchment than average. Floodplain had been cowed and horsed for decades, degraded basically.

Same spot here, the photo is to the left of the tall grass a year ago: