I've moved into a house with poor lawn drainage, I have installed land
drains, my question is, can I rotavate the existing lawn, add fresh top
soil
and level before turfing, would this be the normal way, or would I have
to
remove the old layer of grass before adding top soil.

Any ideas or web sites that you could recommend?


Cheers

Ian

my friend (on sandy soil) just put her turf on top of the old lawn - the
weeds came through bit the grass grew.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

"H Ryder" wrote in message
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my friend (on sandy soil) just put her turf on top of the old lawn - the
weeds came through bit the grass grew.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)


bad advice just overseed or remove the top layer and returf

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I've hired the turf cutter for next
weekend


Ian
"pied piper" wrote in message
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"H Ryder" wrote in message
...
my friend (on sandy soil) just put her turf on top of the old lawn - the
weeds came through bit the grass grew.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)


bad advice just overseed or remove the top layer and returf

"Ian" wrote in message
...
Thanks for taking the time to reply, I've hired the turf cutter for next
weekend


Ian
"pied piper" wrote in message
...

"H Ryder" wrote in message
...
my friend (on sandy soil) just put her turf on top of the old lawn -
the
weeds came through bit the grass grew.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)


bad advice just overseed or remove the top layer and returf

Ian, are you going to work in some organic matter? compost, poop of the
like?

rob