What's under your lawn...?

When I started stripping â??turfâ? that was more moss and weeds than grass in order to make some raised beds, I expected to find trouble â?? but not this bad. You can only see the big â??horrorsâ? - the layer of shingle just under the turfs and the mesh of sinewy roots that have infiltrated from nearby trees donâ??t really show up in the pic. And all just below the surfaceâ?¦

I could have raked and spiked this patch until the cows came home. I could have poured on weed and feed products by the ton. But the benefits would have only been short term.

Sooooooo, if youâ??ve got a patch of lawn that stubbornly refuses to respond to all your loving care, you really need to strip it off, get rid of the rubbish lurking underneath and start again. Not welcome news, I admit, but good vigorous exercise thatâ??ll be cheaper than a gym membership!

 

That is clean compared to what lies under some of our grass!

 

:D:D:D I have a sunken garden, coz when I first moved here, by the time I had dug everything out that had been buried in my garden, it was 18 inches lower. But there is a plus side. Now my fences are 18 inches higher!!! A lot more secluded.:D:D 02

 

Oh Alas I would need a dozen skips to rid my lawn of the rubbish beneath it. I live on a corner plot. Why oh why do builders always use the corner plot as the dumping ground of all the broken bricks and rubble or is it the corner plot where they have all the pallets of bricks delivered and hence all the broken ones are left there once the site is developed. I don't know but I do know that my lawn is now at least two or three inches higher from dressing it with soil and sand each year to try and improve it......when its dry it cracks up and when its wet its like a quagmire.......no happy medium! I have spent hundreds on the garden since I moved here 12 years ago but as I do not own the place, only rent, I am loathed to spend good money replacing the lawn.

 

So your choices are either to dig down or build up!