Thread: Newly landscaped garden is waterlogged
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Old 10-11-2006, 12:03 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Newly landscaped garden is waterlogged
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Charles White said:

then mix the heavy top soil with a quality sand

Why suggest sand? Depending on the *type* of soil (note that "heavy" is
not a *type* of soil), adding sand to it could wind up causing clumps
damn-near as hard as concrete. Sand really does little to "lighten" a
soil mixture when compared to, say, screened compost. Adding organic
matter will do the soil much more good than adding sand.

Yeah sand can give you hot spots in those aeration holes and make it hard
to keep desirable turfgrass growing over them, especially if you're in a
cool season zone with blue and rye.
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