Afternoon all,
After a bit of advice. Just bought a house with a garden full of hardcore / stones / crap. Anyone here laid a lawn over something similar?
Can't workout how much topsoil I need or if a lawn is even going to work?
I've already shifted more bags of stones than I can move so don't really want to clear it much more.
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With a bit of back breaking work to get the larger stuff left behind out and 3-4'' of top soil you should be ok to turf with decent quality stuff. Don't make the mistake I made in October 1998, with winter bearing down on you and get the local yokel to turf your back garden with any old shite...
Should I pay more attention to the quality of the topsoil than the turf?
You know the kinda job you wish you never started..
One of the 2012 Olympic legacies is that the reinstatement of woolwich common area has been a shambles. It may look as it was before but the reason the Kings troop are exercising their horses in charlton park is that the area they were meant to be using is still, (after numerous attempts to clear), full of brick and rubble which was getting stuck in the horses hooves.
Buy good turf, not the stuff lifted from a field full of sheep. Fill any gaps/joints with a 50/50 mix of soil and sharp sand.
Do it properly, do it once.
The finished lawn will then give years of pleasure without you having to constantly topdress and level uneven areas.
How was it for you?
Also make sure the ground is level, pelleted poultry manure evenly spread underneath will help root growth.
Personally although the right time of year, I think it's too wet at the moment for laying turf, wait for some dry weather, to let the ground dry out,although saying that you don't want to be laying turf in the summer when it's too hot, or you'll end up watering it with a sprinkler, which if done too much, you'll end up with toadstools in your lawn.
There's probably a ton of videos on the web of how to lay a lawn that you could go google.
If you do need to buy topsoil , make sure it's heat treated and weed free, if you've got a large area to do laying turf is a backbreaking job if you've not done it before and personally I'd get someone good in to do it rather than having a week off work unpaid with a bad back.
Would leave it till next March before using a lawn feed, Evergreen complete triple action 3 in 1 by Scott's is pretty decent, has a feed. Weed and moss killer in it.
Well the house is gone, the lawn is gone but that fucking animal is still alive trying to get in the Guiness Book of Records as the longest living domestic cat on the planet. You should see the thing, its like a bag of bolts and shit wrapped up in a fur bag... grrr!
Me? I still thnk of that lawn and my garden, I have tried to put it all behind me but even stumbling upon this thread has caused the return of that familiar April twitch and an uncomfortable urge to punt the nearest cat I find halfway down the road.