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Phil L · 26-02-2007, 11:20 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Sacha wrote:
On 26/2/07 18:17, in article ,
"Neil" wrote:

Over the last 4-5 weeks my rectangular, suburbian, lawn has been
badly deteriorating in the four corners. It'd been in place on a
new estate since May 2005 when we moved in; didn't have the same
problems last winter, and has been looked after by me.

The grass has gone really thin in a triangular area in each corner,
and I can see a lot of little mud spirals on the surface instead.
The areas affected are visibly growing each week.

I know that our whole estate suffers from leather-jackets, but from
what I read about that, this is the wrong time of year to see a
problem from that.

On three of the four cormers, there is either a brick wall or 6'
fence abbutting the grass.

Go back to the person who sold you your house, MAKE them contact the
builders and ask them how they arranged drainage of the gardens. I'm
perfectly serious about this. Do it now.

Don't you think that grass growing in a corner, surrounded on 2 sides by a 6
ft wall or fence might be weakened by bad light, and this coupled with the
mower scraping the top off as it's turning the corner may have more to do
with it than bad drainage?

And there are no building regulations WRT garden drainage, so any builder is
likely to say 'sod off', and rightly so.