Have you got a photo of your site @joanrayers89287? That will also help with advice. Are you sure it's actually grass coming through, and not something else? If it is grass, it's most likely that it's seeding in from above, as @punkdoc has said, rather than coming through from below, but it wouldn't usually be problematic to remove. If it was coming from below, it suggests the site hasn't really been prepped well enough. A proper layer of gravel over membrane should inhibit grass for a long time.
I don't think you can easily just turn it into a lawn though, unless there's not a huge amount of gravel, and if it's finer -pea gravel or similar. There's always a risk off of gravel being thrown up by the mower blades. If there had been no membrane, you could simply have dug any finer gravel in, and added soil and seeded, or turfed, depending on the site. A small raised border would easily contain that extra soil.
Thank you, it had its first cut yesterday which went well. Some clippings did fly out but I think it was from places that didn’t have . Grass I will persevere and see what happens as it is a large area. Thank you
I’d also be aware that flying gravel from a lawnmower can break glass windows and car windscreens … and can travel a surprising distance! The impact might be expensive. 😱
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My colleague strimmed himself out of several hundred pounds when he hit a very tall, very narrow, bespoke window. He heard the crack and had time to turn round and see it all turn to sugar! 🤣
Well - I did mention the danger of gravel being chucked a few days ago.... You can only warn people of the potential problem, not hold their hand all the time though. I find it quite odd if there's so much grass - enough to need cutting, when it was done recently. Clearly hasn't been correctly prepped at all. Strangely, there's been another current thread along the same lines with poorly prepped ground and gravel.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well - I did mention the danger of gravel being chucked a few days ago.... You can only warn people of the potential problem, not hold their hand all the time though. I find it quite odd if there's so much grass - enough to need cutting, when it was done recently. Clearly hasn't been correctly prepped at all. Strangely, there's been another current thread along the same lines with poorly prepped ground and gravel.
I think it would be safer to return it to a proper lawn @joanrayers89287. How easy that would be is difficult to say without seeing it though. It can be easy enough to add a small edging of brick or timber, and just bring in a load of soil and re seed, but it depends on the site and location, and the size of the area. You can have grass thriving very well on a pretty shallow layer of soil. The gravel size would also be a factor, but I've done it when the gravel was around 15 - 20mm without any problem, although I had used up a fair bit of it for making concrete, so it wasn't a huge amount to mix into the soil
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can only warn people of the potential problem, not hold their hand all the time though.
I find it quite odd if there's so much grass - enough to need cutting, when it was done recently. Clearly hasn't been correctly prepped at all.
Strangely, there's been another current thread along the same lines with poorly prepped ground and gravel.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes Fairygirl, I do appreciate what you are saying and take it on board, thank you
It can be easy enough to add a small edging of brick or timber, and just bring in a load of soil and re seed, but it depends on the site and location, and the size of the area. You can have grass thriving very well on a pretty shallow layer of soil.
The gravel size would also be a factor, but I've done it when the gravel was around 15 - 20mm without any problem, although I had used up a fair bit of it for making concrete, so it wasn't a huge amount to mix into the soil
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...