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Nightmare garden - how to prepare for grass on clay?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Same here and grass grows fine. 
    A member with a bit more experience with growing a lawn should be able to help you.
    Mine was here when we arrived twenty years ago and I've done nothing to it apart from mow it and nibble bits off to make my flower beds bigger.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • dchornbydchornby Posts: 15
    half tempted to level all the bumps with rough soil we have at the back of the garden, compress it down, then buy a sieve and sift a few inch of topsoil out of it!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's what I'd do. I'm not saying it's right though ;)
    I think you can hire motorised ones.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    I read a 300 page book on Soil by a Canadian professor who said to change clay soil you need to replace 85 % of it with other types of soil...humus...sandy to make it workable.
    Good Luck !
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or you can just improve the soil within a small radius of what you want to plant.
    Clay soil is also very fertile.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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