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Turfing

davidcO9Rpq6bhdavidcO9Rpq6bh Posts: 1
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The developer for our home is laying turf on the public space ground which is like gravel but they say is topsoil and full of weeds, without any rotavating (see Photos). A lot of it was unwatered and appears to have died. They are now watering a few weeks after the event  trying to get some life back into it. (see photo) Is it worth wattering other than to encourage the weeds in between Wondered if anyone could provide some technical help which we can use to help get the developer to carry the work out correctly if you agree this is bad practice.

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The turf in that last pic is deader than a dead thing. Looks like the output of a doormat factory! All watering will do now is water the weeds that are growing in the gaps.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Hope their building skills are better than their landscaping skills.
    that turf will never recover now. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed.  :/
    As @JennyJ says - it's only the weeds that will benefit, and frankly- with the way water reserves are in lots of areas [including up here] it's a hideous waste of those precious resources @davidcO9Rpq6bh.   :|
    We've recently had a new group of large houses built a mile up the road -all at the £1.5 million, and upwards, price bracket. They've put in a line of Portuguese laurel along the boundary between them and the road. Needless to say, because there's been inadequate rain since planting, most of them are half dead or on their way to being completely dead. In a normal year they'd be fine, but this hasn't been normal. What a waste of money. They'll probably just put more in, and they'll go the same way unless they wait until autumn. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    June is way too late for laying turf (unless it's somewhere with reliably cool wet weather at that time of year). They'll need to wait until autumn if they're going to start again. It might be better sown with a wildflower/grass meadow mix for poor well-drained conditions, but in a public area people might complain if it's not "tidy".
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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