I have recently used a digger to level my back garden, it is just a mud patch at the moment and I was going to seed it in the spring. But I have noticed that 4 or 5 pools of water sit on the surface for quite a long time after rain, whats the best thing to do for this, will grass help or will I need to do something drastic
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dave - in the Spring when the ground has dried-out, rake the whole thing over level (get a wide contractors rake not a namby-pamby narrow garden rake). Do this 'till you've got a fine tilth (a smartar*ed technical term for no stones, no lumps, a sort of crumb-like surface). From scaffold boards sow your seed by hand, then rake it over. Scaffold boards? ... spreads your load so you don't sink-in and cover the soil in bootprints.
But DON'T do any of this until the ground is dry.
But DON'T do any of this until the ground is dry.
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Have you made sure the top few inches is all good soil? It's all too easy to mix up sub soil and top soil, or to have insufficient top soil, and then find you forever have drainage problems or moss. It's no good trying to make a tilth out of clay, for example, it'll just compact and not grow a good lawn.
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