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"Heringbone" wrote in message
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My garden was laid 2 years ago. It was a new house then. This year cracks
have emerge in the lawn about 1" wide and 1 foot deep or more. I assume
this is because of lack of water, drying out, etc. One side of the garden
is old trees that have been around for 100s of years. What is the best
method of getting rid of the cracks? Fill them with watery soil? All
comments welcome.

Thank You



Peat grow bag and coarse sand mixed 1 to 3 is better than straight
sand for filling holes -- and in the top later mix in grass seed

I am inclined to agree. There isn't a lot of give in tight packed sand,
and some peat added encourages the worms to do a bit of mixing up for
free. Narrow cracks will colonise with grass fairly quickly with or
without seed.

The dry weather recently has dried out clay soils causing deep cracks.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown