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York Stone Courtyard
Alison Dwight
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Hi everyone, we have a Yorkshire stone courtyard garden that is difficult to maintain. We have creeping plants and weeds in between stones that make it difficult to sweep, especially in Autumn when the leaves fall from our huge copper beech. We try to get rid of the weeds each year but it's a never ending job!! We are thinking that a lawn would be much easier to maintain. Could we lay a raised lawn directly on top of the stone? We have a young family so don't have much time to spend on the garden but we'd like to spend that time doing the fun parts of gardening rather than just constant maintenance ????
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I think the short answer is no.
Lawns need good soil and drainage to grow well. They also need regular cutting once a week.
Have you weeded by hand or used a systemic product you spray on the leaves?
I think a lawn, especially in a courtyard type situation, would need much more maintenance than a paved stone one.
Save your money, get a garden vac for much the same money as a lawnmower and save yourself a lot of work.
A lawn needs raking, scarifying, feeding, weeding, mowing etc if it's going to withstand a family playing on it. And you can hardly ever walk on a lawn in the winter without damaging it and causing ongoing problems.
Added to which, grass will not grow well in the shade of a large tree. There's probably a reason why that area was paved over.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is true, I'm just about to dig up the remaining grass under my tree to plant a fernery as the grass does not grow well there and is a constant sea of mud.
A strimmer is good for weeds between stones
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am having part of my lawn paved over as it never flourishes.Not enough light,wet in winter and dries out in summer.Tried returfing,seeding but always looks bad.
My lawn is only small but needs a lot of work,a York stone courtyard sounds ideal to me!
I would happily have your York stone I would collect it and sow you some grass
Depending where you are located I mean it !! Have you priced up York stone??
Its worth a mint. You could sell it and have turf put down . But I would keep the stone . I have a lot of it