digitS'
Garden Master
the ground will sink beneath your feet!
My backyard gets a lot of traffic and it is on a slight slope. There aren't any retaining walls really ... In fact, the "walls" I am referring to are only inches high.
I built a little brick deck in one of those traffic areas. It is level and level with the lawn, or - once was. On that very slight uphill side, the ground has sunk.
Another "wall" is the concrete under the little deck outside the greenhouse. I don't think there is any danger of shifting soil undermining anything but it is sinking.
Each year, a little more - I've got the "trails" going this way and that. Now, I've got little depressions. Step there after running the lawn sprinklers and I crush the lawn grass right down into the mud!
Man! My soil couldn't drain any better or quicker but without care, I'm gonna make tiny ponds ... with those "creekbed" trails wandering around amongst them!
Okay, can I fill over the existing lawn grass and not kill it? An inch of good soil every year should keep up with this. Would doing this during the winter be the right or wrong time of the year?
Steve
My backyard gets a lot of traffic and it is on a slight slope. There aren't any retaining walls really ... In fact, the "walls" I am referring to are only inches high.
I built a little brick deck in one of those traffic areas. It is level and level with the lawn, or - once was. On that very slight uphill side, the ground has sunk.
Another "wall" is the concrete under the little deck outside the greenhouse. I don't think there is any danger of shifting soil undermining anything but it is sinking.
Each year, a little more - I've got the "trails" going this way and that. Now, I've got little depressions. Step there after running the lawn sprinklers and I crush the lawn grass right down into the mud!
Man! My soil couldn't drain any better or quicker but without care, I'm gonna make tiny ponds ... with those "creekbed" trails wandering around amongst them!
Okay, can I fill over the existing lawn grass and not kill it? An inch of good soil every year should keep up with this. Would doing this during the winter be the right or wrong time of the year?
Steve