Hello,
I moved into my house 2 years ago and the previous owners didn't do anything in the garden apart from maybe cut the grass now and again. They had a sand pit and a trampoline in the garden so when I moved in there was two rather large patches of nothing in the grass. I have since been told to put a boarder in by the other half who insisted that we didn't need to dig down to create the boarder. She just wanted to put newspaper over the grass and then soil followed by a plastic boarder which is only in the ground by a few centimeters. After the row and me saying the weight of the soil (a ton) would collapse the boarder I came home after being away a weekend to this all being done plants i and everything. She got her family to help out!! So its stayed as is as there was no where for the soil to go. So two years down the line and its all collapsed (who knew!) I have found some boarders which you can hammer in which are wooden however after measuring I am going to have a noticeable gap even if I cut to size... She now wants a concrete boarder which has an edge so the lawn can be cut better which I don't mind however it needs to be dug down.
Am I correct in thinking I need to dig out the boarder again and do it properly? so the plants look nice and they have some where to grow as currently they are not in very much soil either as the ton was spread right down the entire boarder.
If I have to dig it out then I am also looking at including some form of drainage for the plants and for the grass as everything is currently sat on clay I have more moss than grass. Well I did before I killed it all scarified it and planted new grass seed and covered with compost. Its now looking more green however its still very very wet. So as much as I try I cant seem to stop the moss overpowering the grass without some form of drainage ad I am aerating ever 4-6 weeks as recommended by the scarifiers handbook. Is there anything else I can do to sort this problem out? Is drainage the right way to go? If so where do I start?
I hope this all makes sense and that I hope what I have done so far (excluding the boarder as I didn't do that) has been correct? I am worried that the compost maybe to thick and I need some form of sand to enable better drainage but I am unsure.
Any help is greatly appreciated and please bear in mind I am new to gardening so please be gentle with me lol.
James
I moved into my house 2 years ago and the previous owners didn't do anything in the garden apart from maybe cut the grass now and again. They had a sand pit and a trampoline in the garden so when I moved in there was two rather large patches of nothing in the grass. I have since been told to put a boarder in by the other half who insisted that we didn't need to dig down to create the boarder. She just wanted to put newspaper over the grass and then soil followed by a plastic boarder which is only in the ground by a few centimeters. After the row and me saying the weight of the soil (a ton) would collapse the boarder I came home after being away a weekend to this all being done plants i and everything. She got her family to help out!! So its stayed as is as there was no where for the soil to go. So two years down the line and its all collapsed (who knew!) I have found some boarders which you can hammer in which are wooden however after measuring I am going to have a noticeable gap even if I cut to size... She now wants a concrete boarder which has an edge so the lawn can be cut better which I don't mind however it needs to be dug down.
Am I correct in thinking I need to dig out the boarder again and do it properly? so the plants look nice and they have some where to grow as currently they are not in very much soil either as the ton was spread right down the entire boarder.
If I have to dig it out then I am also looking at including some form of drainage for the plants and for the grass as everything is currently sat on clay I have more moss than grass. Well I did before I killed it all scarified it and planted new grass seed and covered with compost. Its now looking more green however its still very very wet. So as much as I try I cant seem to stop the moss overpowering the grass without some form of drainage ad I am aerating ever 4-6 weeks as recommended by the scarifiers handbook. Is there anything else I can do to sort this problem out? Is drainage the right way to go? If so where do I start?
I hope this all makes sense and that I hope what I have done so far (excluding the boarder as I didn't do that) has been correct? I am worried that the compost maybe to thick and I need some form of sand to enable better drainage but I am unsure.
Any help is greatly appreciated and please bear in mind I am new to gardening so please be gentle with me lol.
James