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Starting From A Fresh
I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in the new garden. Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the whole garden on about 6 different levels.
What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing), remove the bags and level the soil out. Then put down some grass seed and make some planting areas. Is it advisable to do this as I am a little concerned about turning it into a quagmire... The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square... |
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On Jan 19, 3:54*am, PeanutMonster PeanutMonster.
wrote: I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in the new garden. *Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the whole garden on about 6 different levels. * What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing), remove the bags and level the soil out. *Then put down some grass seed and make some planting areas. *Is it advisable to do this as I am a little concerned about turning it into a quagmire... The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square... -- PeanutMonster If the soil is very wet, as it tends to be in many locations in winter, you don't want to do this now. Working water saturated soil - even walking on it a lot - will breakdown soil structure and cause compaction. Not a good thing! Wait until it dries out before you attempt any lawn renovation or the creation of planting beds. Looks like you live in the UK, so planting a new lawn is something best left until April or May anyway. Same with most northern areas of the US also. Are these like plastic bags of grass clippings buried under the ground? What where they thinking??!! They should make a nice start to a compost pile, though, once you are able to remove them (sans bags, of course). Add some browns (dried leaves, paper, straw) and any kitchen scraps and you'll have some nice composted soil amendment in a few months. |
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On Jan 19, 3:57*pm, Jangchub wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:06:59 -0800 (PST), gardengal wrote: On Jan 19, 3:54*am, PeanutMonster PeanutMonster. wrote: I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in the new garden. *Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the whole garden on about 6 different levels. * What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing), remove the bags and level the soil out. *Then put down some grass seed and make some planting areas. *Is it advisable to do this as I am a little concerned about turning it into a quagmire... The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square... -- PeanutMonster If the soil is very wet, as it tends to be in many locations in winter, you don't want to do this now. Working water saturated soil - even walking on it a lot - will breakdown soil structure and cause compaction. Not a good thing! Wait until it dries out before you attempt any lawn renovation or the creation of planting beds. Looks like you live in the UK, so planting a new lawn is something best left until April or May anyway. Same with most northern areas of the US also. Are these like plastic bags of grass clippings buried under the ground? What where they thinking??!! They should make a nice start to a compost pile, though, once you are able to remove them (sans bags, of course). Add some browns (dried leaves, paper, straw) and any kitchen scraps and you'll have some nice composted soil amendment in a few months. Pam, is that you? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Updated daily when able.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - yep, it's me :-)) |
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On Jan 19, 6:54�am, PeanutMonster PeanutMonster.
wrote: I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in the new garden. �Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the whole garden on about 6 different levels. � What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing), remove the bags and level the soil out. �Then put down some grass seed and make some planting areas. �Is it advisable to do this as I am a little concerned about turning it into a quagmire... The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square... A 35' X 35' plot of lawn is a mere postage stamp... first thing you need to do as soon as the ground becomes workable is to obtain a rototiller. Bust it all up to 10" depth removing rocks and debris as you go (now is the time to pick out those plastic bags). Then till again working in plenty of organic matter, peat moss is good. Then rake smooth, seed (decide what kind of grass), and roll... water liberally every day. After like four weeks begin mowing... for that size lawn I'd use a quality push reel mower. If you are looking to use a lawn that size for play after like two weeks of romping about you will no longer have a lawn. |
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On Jan 20, 5:23*am, Jangchub wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:29:25 -0800 (PST), gardengal wrote: yep, it's me :-)) How've you been? *It's been years! *Still out in the PNW? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Updated daily when able. It has been a long time......and things have changed a lot here at wreck gardens. Maybe not so much for the good, either :-) I'm fine and still in the same place. How you doing?? |
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On Jan 19, 6:29 pm, gardengal wrote:
On Jan 19, 3:57 pm, Jangchub wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:06:59 -0800 (PST), gardengal Pam, is that you? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com yep, it's me :-)) Hi Pam! I thought that might be you. Nice to know that you are still around. How about sending some of that rain down here to CA. We are DRY!! I mostly Lurk here and post occasionally. (Hi to you too Victoria.) Emilie Northern CAlifornia |
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On Jan 20, 7:56*pm, mleblanca wrote:
On Jan 19, 6:29 pm, gardengal wrote: On Jan 19, 3:57 pm, Jangchub wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:06:59 -0800 (PST), gardengal Pam, is that you? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com yep, it's me :-)) Hi Pam! I thought that might be you. Nice to know that you are still around. How about sending some of that rain down here to CA. We are DRY!! I mostly Lurk here and post occasionally. (Hi to you too Victoria.) Emilie Northern CAlifornia Hi Emilie - Nice to hear from you.....it's been a long time. Fortunately we are having a very nice long dry spell at the moment, so I have no rain to send :-) A welcome relief after the cold, snow and torrential flooding rains of late December! |
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On Jan 21, 6:18 pm, Jangchub wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:56:27 -0800 (PST), mleblanca wrote: On Jan 19, 6:29 pm, gardengal wrote: On Jan 19, 3:57 pm, Jangchub wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:06:59 -0800 (PST), gardengal Pam, is that you? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com yep, it's me :-)) Hi Pam! I thought that might be you. Nice to know that you are still around. How about sending some of that rain down here to CA. We are DRY!! I mostly Lurk here and post occasionally. (Hi to you too Victoria.) Emilie Northern CAlifornia Yeah, send some rain here too! Not a drop that fell in almost a year did anything to soak the soil around here. My water bill just for my trees last summer was over 300 dollars. That was JUST trees. How ya been, Em? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Updated daily when able. Hi V Well we are doing fine. We had some rain today! Our last rain was on Christmas Eve with 2.5 inches. We had a grand total of .7 today, and I'm sure there was no runoff- it all soaked in good. With season total of 6.50 we're behind last year's 10 inches; which was not great at that, since our Jan 31 average is 14 inches......need to have quite a deluge to get that in a week. Ha. Daffodils are getting buds and so are the almond trees. I have tiny little broccoli florets and some "mini" spinach in the garden. The Garden Club planted snapdragons and flowering kale at the Vets Memorial in the City Plaza last week, so they got a good watering today too. Good to hear from you. Emilie NorCal |
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Starting From A Fresh
g'day peanut monster,
could yo do raised beds, drainage then not such an issue? once beds are in the seed the lawn area, we have pic's on our site there may be some ideas there for you? On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:54:08 +0000, PeanutMonster wrote: snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len & bev -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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On Jan 19, 9:29*pm, gardengal wrote:
On Jan 19, 3:57*pm, Jangchub wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:06:59 -0800 (PST), gardengal wrote: On Jan 19, 3:54*am, PeanutMonster PeanutMonster. wrote: I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in the new garden. *Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the whole garden on about 6 different levels. * What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing), remove the bags and level the soil out. *Then put down some grass seed and make some planting areas. *Is it advisable to do this as I am a little concerned about turning it into a quagmire... The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square... -- PeanutMonster If the soil is very wet, as it tends to be in many locations in winter, you don't want to do this now. Working water saturated soil - even walking on it a lot - will breakdown soil structure and cause compaction. Not a good thing! Wait until it dries out before you attempt any lawn renovation or the creation of planting beds. Looks like you live in the UK, so planting a new lawn is something best left until April or May anyway. Same with most northern areas of the US also. Are these like plastic bags of grass clippings buried under the ground? What where they thinking??!! They should make a nice start to a compost pile, though, once you are able to remove them (sans bags, of course). Add some browns (dried leaves, paper, straw) and any kitchen scraps and you'll have some nice composted soil amendment in a few months. Pam, is that you? Victoria http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/ Updated daily when able.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - yep, it's me :-))- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - this is absolutely so cool, Pam!!! It's nice to see you again! And I still have the Diablo ninebark you sent me. I had to whack it back significently to dig up and move, but it's one of the few things I didn't lose. I made sure it was one of the plants I grabbed early when I had to relocate last spring for good. Good gardening friends are treasures. Good to see you're name in wreck gardens again. |
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