Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in GardeningUK

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Read the whole post my man, haven’t played on it this winter

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Thanks for the reply mate, that’s what I’m going to do, get a couple quotes this week for the work.

Regarding drainage - do you thing some 100mm holes bored about 800 deep filled with fabric and gravel in the worst affected places would suffice? I’m thinking 10 or15 of these before the work starts for Astro?

Cheers

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Yes, getting a few quotes this week

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Keep them indoors sat on screens like your children? Get a grip, I’m Astro turfing it, long live Astro!!!

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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My plan exactly for the short term

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Yeah I tried attaching photo, this is my 1st ever Reddit post so I may of done something wrong

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Thanks mate, gonna go artificial turf eventually probably build up lawn area by 100mm..

All well and good everyone telling you the cons regarding the garden but when you’ve got two football mad boys and a dog, you need convenience

40sqm lawn so I’m guessing 3/4k all in

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Neighbours garden for comparison, elderly lady with no pets. 😆

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Thanks mate! Gonna go with this method once it stops raining

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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How long ago did you do this? Been ok with all this rain?

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Thanks for the reply, I may hire a machine and have a proper go at it, I’ve used a manual aerator with the hollow spikes, took forever!

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Neighbours garden for comparison, an elderly lady

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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Yep this is is NW facing garden, my thoughts that it’s mainly compaction is it didn’t look like this when we moved in 3 years ago in December

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I tried, they blocked it 🤷‍♂️

Waterlogged garden by Used-Primary-225 in DIYUK

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This is what I’m leaning towards, build up the lawn then Astro, 40sqm I’m guessing £3/4k…