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New topsoil is like cake mix

Sandy Loams · 2017-10-30 09:32:39

Hi All. I've recently started laying a new lawn and it's not going at all well. The entire place was covered in thick concrete which I pulled out. The ground is boulder clay about 2ft thick, so I put the rotorvator across the whole lot and mixed in a tonne of sand and a tonne of well-rotted manure. The site is…

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Redwing Posts: 1,511

October 2017

I really sympathise with you. You have done everything right and will, I am sure, in the long term have a great lawn. You have temporarily been defeated b the weather. Come spring everything will change. Hang in there.

Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
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