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Old 23-02-2006, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by adm
Dear All,

I presume this isn't recommended, but is it do-able nonetheless ?

I have a patch of grass that is about 5m x 15m that my dog has been busy
running around on over the winter and is now badly churned up in several
places.

I don't want to dig it all up or rotovate it particularly, but I do want to
replace it with good quality new grass.

Someone told me that at this time of year, it is possible to just rake some
good topsoil over the whole thing to level it up and then to simply lay new
turf right over the top....

Good/bad/indifferent ? Any advice ?

If this is possible, can anyone also recommend a good type of turf to use -
it needs to be hard wearing as opposed to perfect looking as I have three
boys and a large dog....

Cheers,

Alasdair

Not advisable by any stretch of the imagination and no it just pain won’t work. These kind of story's come mostly form warm season grass such as Bermuda grass that will grow just about any where as long as its worm enough but we are not in the tropics. The easiest way to do this if your feeling lazy is to hire some one else to do it or get a turf cutter in. You'll need some RTF turf go to http://www.turfshop.co.uk/turf.php#rtf and check it out.

chow