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Extremely Muddy Back Yard :/
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I have just moved into a new home. My dog loves to run around the garden but is absolutely caking my house in mud all the time. We walk to the park and it's dry there but still always wet back home.
I was hoping someone cud tell me how to dry up the soil a little?
Thank you
I was hoping someone cud tell me how to dry up the soil a little?
Thank you
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First thing(cheap way), use a hollow tuine aerator (Kent and stowe do a great one, can dig out link if required) and aerate the hell out of it. I'm talking poke holes every 2/3 inch. If you're unsure what this aerating is all about, happy to advise further.
If you find its still extremely wet, I'm afraid you'll have to go down the drainage route (cost me around £400 in materials for a approx 45-55 sqm lawn, with pipes every 1m, no labour as did it myself, so you'll have to factor in labour) which I recently had to in February, throwing in perforated pipe, surrounded by shingle, surrounded by membrane, then have that linked into a waste pipe of some sort.
Following drainage, aerated every year or 2 if the lawn gets alot of traffic.
Do these 2 and you'll have a nice dry (but not too dry) lawn.
Hope this helps.
I watched them do this on our estate ,heavy clay with a layer of the top soil they take off before they build, ungraded so full of stones or in my case pebbles this is then gone over with a compactor plate the sort of thing you use to lay block paving, then they level with builders sand instead of sharp sand.
Grass drainage doesn't stand a chance.
If you have any brick walls in the garden under the grass/sand layer will be a layer of solid mortar from the brick laying.
A friend on another site managed to get David Wilson Builders back in to do something about theirs so maybe that's worth a try.
Aerating is the right idea but it's doubtful you will manage to get it done without breaking the machine but try putting a fork in various places and wiggle it back and forth before you buy or hire something.