Hole in lawn

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2020 edited July 2020

  Hi @mcrafer  😊 welcome to the forum 
  
  Thats probably due to moles or voles. Both tunnel just below the surface of the soil. 

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

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• mcrafer Posts: 6

  July 2020

  Thank you. It looks quite deep though. At least 15inches.  I didn't think the hole would be that deep if it was  a mole or vole.  I'll get it checked out. 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2020

  Moles do sometimes go down deep after worms. But there are other causes of holes underground ... subsidence, damaged drains etc ... on the farm where I grew up a combine harvester fell halfway into a hole in a field in the middle of nowhere ... a geologist said it was a ‘geological anomaly’ probably thousands of years old  ... 

  
  

  Best check it out ...

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

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• mcrafer Posts: 6

  July 2020

  Thanks, I'll get it checked out

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2020

  This happened not all that far from here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-43266095/the-sinkhole-that-swallowed-a-bus-in-norwich

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

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• mcrafer Posts: 6

  July 2020

  Thanks for that 😁

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• NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

  July 2020

  I have 2 raised beds and during the recent hot and dry spell 12 inch deep cracks / holes appeared.

  Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.

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