Hi folks.

I have a serious drainage issue on my new lawn, which I never envisioned when I put my back garden together.

The lawn is on a slight slope upwards away from the house, and the water comes back down the way to the end of the lawn closest to the house and it is constantly saturated, even after a few days of dry. This patch is now covered in moss and is reallying stressing me out.

Under the grass is about 2 foot of very tough clayey soil, and then strangely there is a "semi" rock hard layer of sand stone, which although not fully rock, it is very tough to dent.

Does anyone have any simple solutions to help with this without having to dig up massive amounts of lawn and soil again?

I tried boring some holes down as far as I could get and filled them with sand (fine sand) to maybe allow the water to flow down further into the ground but it did not make much difference.

I have neighbours at each side so there is nowhere to really drain the water away from the garden by way of a french drain or similar.

If anyone has any ideas I am all ears.

Thanks