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Posted by on September 30, 2006, 8:41 am
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Kyle Boatright wrote:
> >
> > I am in the process of replacing my tired old front lawn. I plan to use
> > turf rather than seed. The soil is poor underneath, the site sloping
> > and south facing (so gets very hot and dry especialy in summer).
> >
> > I have dug the ground, raked and firmed it down. I now need to get it
> > nice and level across the slope (cant flaten the slope completely) I
> > need some tips as to how best to get the ground level ready for
> > turfing, please.
If the soil is poor, no amount of leveling is gonna fix that.
Depending on what "poor" means, I'd either get topsoil or else soil
ammendments like organic matter added. You have a great opportunity
now to fix things right and avoid years of trouble, for which the
solution at that point is very difficult.
> >
> > I also need a few recomendations as to turf suppliers. i intend to
> > order onlne and get it delivered. I am also on a budget, but require a
> > good drought resistant turf. Any ideas I have done a search and know
> > some names but any recomendations from you would be helpfull. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > GardenCadet
>
> Where are you and what type of grass do you desire - bermuda, zoysia,
> fescue, centipede, etc?
>
> To smooth/level the area, you can build a drag, which is a piece of chicken
> wire attached to a 2"x4" (or some similar strait edge), and pulled across
> the lawn. Similar to what is used between innings on a baseball field, but
> with a coarser mesh. It'll more or less pull dirt off of the high spots and
> pull it to the low spots. The more times you go back and forth over the
> lawn, the smoother things will get.
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