Soldato
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I've looked for another thread and there's not quite one that matches what I want to ask here...
This winter has been terrible for our lawn - it's your typical awful condition horribly compacted clay soil probably with rubble and all sorts under it new build situation. About 6 years old now and although we've tried pretty hard (getting the company GreenKeepers to treat it, several years of scarify + aeration + overseed + topdress) and at times it has looked to be doing a bit better this time it really is just ruined. It spent half the winter virtually under-water and now there's barely any grass left, just a few clumps, a little bit of moss in places but mostly just bare soil, looks dreadful...
I think I'm starting to wake up to the fact that I could just **** hundreds up the wall every year to re-do all of that stuff and maybe get a month or so of decent grass out of it in the summer and that's it. I thought that maybe if we kept doing that eventually the condition of the ground would improve (less compaction from the aeration, repeated top-dressing might gradually build up a layer of nicer soil for the grass, but perhaps I'm wrong? Maybe this is just an extremely bad year?)
Or maybe something else... I'm not interested in artificial grass having researched it... and not super keen on gravel or chips either, so... Has anyone had any luck with planting out low-growing ground cover type plants (weeds really) and letting them take up the slack where the grass wont? Thinking clover, creeping thyme, daisy, and stop treating it for moss, perhaps put down some slightly taller growing meadow wildflowers around the edges... I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest!
This winter has been terrible for our lawn - it's your typical awful condition horribly compacted clay soil probably with rubble and all sorts under it new build situation. About 6 years old now and although we've tried pretty hard (getting the company GreenKeepers to treat it, several years of scarify + aeration + overseed + topdress) and at times it has looked to be doing a bit better this time it really is just ruined. It spent half the winter virtually under-water and now there's barely any grass left, just a few clumps, a little bit of moss in places but mostly just bare soil, looks dreadful...
I think I'm starting to wake up to the fact that I could just **** hundreds up the wall every year to re-do all of that stuff and maybe get a month or so of decent grass out of it in the summer and that's it. I thought that maybe if we kept doing that eventually the condition of the ground would improve (less compaction from the aeration, repeated top-dressing might gradually build up a layer of nicer soil for the grass, but perhaps I'm wrong? Maybe this is just an extremely bad year?)
Or maybe something else... I'm not interested in artificial grass having researched it... and not super keen on gravel or chips either, so... Has anyone had any luck with planting out low-growing ground cover type plants (weeds really) and letting them take up the slack where the grass wont? Thinking clover, creeping thyme, daisy, and stop treating it for moss, perhaps put down some slightly taller growing meadow wildflowers around the edges... I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest!