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New turf laid full of stones

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  • AichAich Posts: 11
    The turf is getting specs of yellow, do you think I could possibly be over watering??? Or is it starting to detoriate?
  • AichAich Posts: 11
    I let the baby run all over it she’s as light as a feather. I don’t walk on the grass except to clear fox/cat poo!!!!
  • AichAich Posts: 11
    I just don’t want to contact the landscaper, he just seems slightly intimidating, he’s a builder from my builder, who’s completed a full garden renovation to a high standard- turf laid down Monday. The turf is starting to turn yellow, I have watered it down with a hose pipe morning/ evening - can’t undertand why the yellow is coming through- compared to my neighbours grass, this turf looks yellow 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Weird.  The stones on the surface look quite a bit bigger than the gravel that's in the soil under the corner of the turf. 
    You don't have a gravelled path or drive do you?  I'm wondering if the stones on the lawn surface could have been transferred on someone's boots?
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102
    Looking at the photo of the soil underneath the turf, then it looks ok as there are no obvious sighs are large stone. Did company who carried the Landscaping works do other works after the lawn was laid such as slabbing. If not, then the stone chippings on the surface are a bit of a mystery
    I would just remove them from the surface of the lawn but be careful as it’s is not advisable to walk on new turf. If you have a strong timber-board then lay that down first so you can walk on this to get to the stones 

  • AichAich Posts: 11
    There’s no gravel in the garden, the drive is brick- we have pebble dashed back wall- although there’s not a single pebble on the patio so why on earth would there be pebbles scattered all over my grass.....really really really strange! Mind boggling!? Unless my neighbours malicious...come out at 3am, handful of pebbles over the fence onto my grass? I could only guess it’s due to the fact that we gave him the bad side of a fence (he argued with my builders that he wanted the good side of my fence) ..even though we paid a couple of thousands for the fence..do I am entitled to have the good side of MY fence... ?otherwise I can’t think how else they’ve appeared all over my new turf?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Have they been there since the turf was laid or have they appeared since?

    I’m wondering whether the vehicle used to transport the turf and tools had previously been used to transport gravel for another customer’s driveway. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Half term. Any of the neighbours' kids own catapults?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102
    Hi Aich 
    Your neighbour seems a bit unreasonable based on what you are sayiing and no doubt there must be some suspicion that he has done this. I would remind your neighbour that you have a small child and the stones chipping that are appearing on your new lawn could cause injury 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    One summer I kept finding a scatter of small white stones on my corner lawn, matching the stones of the new drive of a house on the other side of the road.  It was a mystery until one day I spotted a couple of lads picking up loose stones that that had been carried onto the pavement by the car wheels and lobbing them across the road at the lamp-post.  And mostly not hitting it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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