Lawn Problems

Andy Cresswell · 22 Apr 2021 at 15:08

Hello
I have recently moved in to a relatively new house and the back lawn is very patchy, full of thatch and moss and after heavy rain large pools of water appear on the surface and it becomes very squishy. looking at the soil it seems to be mostly clay. I have done a bit of research in to how to improve this situation and get a better lawn and just wanted to run my ideas past others to gauge if what i'm planning will work/help.

step 1 lawn is going to be scarified and hollow tine aerated
step 2 going to spread a mix of clay breaker and british gypsum to help break up the clay
step 3 spread over chicken manure as fertiliser
step 4 over seed with a perennial rye grass seed
step 5 cover over the seed with natural compost

I know this won't give me an overnight fix for lush green lawn but would this help?

wesley · 22 Apr 2021 at 15:33

The ground got compacted by the building vehicles so water got no where to go hence the pools.

To do it properly, digging them up and replace with fresh earth\mud

Andy Cresswell · 22 Apr 2021 at 16:29

That would be a very big and costly job due to the garden being approx 250m2

Welshman · 22 Apr 2021 at 21:43

Andy Cresswell said:
Hello
I have recently moved in to a relatively new house and the back lawn is very patchy, full of thatch and moss and after heavy rain large pools of water appear on the surface and it becomes very squishy. looking at the soil it seems to be mostly clay. I have done a bit of research in to how to improve this situation and get a better lawn and just wanted to run my ideas past others to gauge if what i'm planning will work/help.

step 1 lawn is going to be scarified and hollow tine aerated
step 2 going to spread a mix of clay breaker and british gypsum to help break up the clay
step 3 spread over chicken manure as fertiliser
step 4 over seed with a perennial rye grass seed
step 5 cover over the seed with natural compost

I know this won't give me an overnight fix for lush green lawn but would this help?

Sounds like a very sound plan and will do the job. Just ensure you keep watering the new seed and dont let the ground dry out until you see the new grass peeking through the soil

zuludawn · 22 Apr 2021 at 22:57

In exactly the same boat with a new property, I'm going down this root as I like the theory behind it.

https://youtu.be/RxI8uZtFFeY

dlockers · 22 Apr 2021 at 23:01

zuludawn said:
In exactly the same boat with a new property, I'm going down this root as I like the theory behind it.

https://youtu.be/RxI8uZtFFeY

No pun intended?

zuludawn · 22 Apr 2021 at 23:06

dLockers said:
No pun intended?

No lol wasn't intentional but I like it , typing on touch keyboard and not looking properly

zuludawn · 23 Apr 2021 at 00:27

Cannot buy John and Bob's products in UK but there was a comment on video that leads here, make microbes for free.

http://en.jadam.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=8350