Lawn

I was thinking yesterday of the sound advice given to mattf869 on how to go about preparing the ground to lay his new lawn ,the reason...
A couple of doors up the people who owned the house decided to sell and move on.Their garden was a picture with apple,pear trees. 3 sides of borders with shrubs and perennials of all types,well kept lawn in the middle. A builder purchased it with the purpose to rent out. He cut down all the lovely pear & apples trees and left the 3 borders to the weeds. He 1st let it out to his daughter who sadly did not even go into the garden ,result jungle of weeds.
She moved out after about a year and it has been vacant since near the end of last year. The weeds up to a few days ago were anything up to 2 feet tall a real jungle of weeds. I am not talking about doted weeds but a real mass ,the plot must be about 25 x 45 ft.
The daughter had one of those swimming pools about 20 feet round & 4 feet deep and when she moved out the depression in the soil must of been close to 4-5 " and compacted.

Anyway a couple of days ago the builder got 2 of his men in to not dig up the weeds but skim them down to the ground. It looks a lot better and I was expecting them to dig it over or go over with weedkiller...NO. He has got a load of turf in and laid it over everything including the borders with some struggling shrubs.Not only did he not put weedkiller down but did not even roll the ground 1st!!!! Just turfed straight on top of weeds & bumpy lumpy, compacted ground.
If he sell it someone is going to have a real shock & problems with the garden.

 

Sadly this seems to happen a lot. Some builders have no respect for the ground that surrounds buildings and quite often newly built properties seem to come off the worst.

 

At least you'll be on hand to offer them advice trogre