Lawn Leveling with Sand: My Experience with Pictures!
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I leveled my bermuda lawn..
Comments (4)No you do not want to pack it down. I suspect those soft spots were the low spots where larger amounts of sand accumulated and what you are feeling is the sand shifting when you put your weight on it as that is what it should do. Eventually the Bermuda roots and rhizomes will fill up the loose sand and tighten it up on its own. FWIW you cannot pack coarse angular sand, that is why you used it so it would not pack down....See Morehelp on leveling my lawn
Comments (5)Use whatever is cheapest. Be prepared for weeds in the new soil. There are too many reasons for this to be blamed on getting bad soil, but you can get bad soil with nutgrass or bermuda in it. I used all purpose sand in bags from HD for a recent brick project. It is 40% cheaper than play sand. It probably doesn't matter for this question but I always have to ask. Where do you live in SoCal? As you know the growing conditions at Big Bear Lake are much different than that in Palm Springs or Newport Beach....See MoreUpdate on my native lawn experiment
Comments (20)"Bp, when you're out there spreading huge bags of coffee grounds all over the lawn, do you notice that the neighbors start calling in their children and pulling the shades?" One neighbor came over and asked what I was spreading and when I told him, he said something like that was what he thought, but didn't believe it until he asked. Then he told me about some fertilizer he uses that makes it grow so fast in the summer that he can hardly keep up with mowing and watering. I didn't bother pointing out that I thought that was counterproductive. Another neighbor said he might try it after I told him they give the grounds free even if you don't buy coffee. But so far, I haven't seen him actually do it. Many of my neighbors think I'm nuts anyway, since I compost, I don't bag my clippings, I mow my leaves into the lawn and I didn't get the unmetered water. My water bills are already lower than they would be with the unmetered water, and I don't have nearly as many problems with weeds as I'd have with that water (it's not filtered very well and is full of weed seeds). I was walking around this morning and it looks like I'm finally getting sheep fescue and/or red fescue germination. Still not a lot, but at least some of it is germinating....See MoreLeveling lawn with soil...no sand????
Comments (10)So that is what we originally thought. However, we have tried both slice seeding (2 years ago) and overseeding (last year) and you see the results. Last fall we overseeded and tried to lightly put in some leftover garden soil I had in some of the lower patchy areas to try and enrich the soil. The only grass that grew was in the areas where we added the soil (we did use a rake to the other areas to make sure good contact with the seed). However, the little grass that did take had roots lower than the rest of the grass. We made sure to water multiple times a day and had caution tape around it to keep the kids off. Since the only grass that grew was in the better/new soil and since we've been told by other landscapers that our soil is too sandy, I thought topdressing with loam/compost mix would both help to enrich our soil with nutrients along with helping the low spots. Figured we'd probably overseed after top dressing also....See MoreVisualCSharp
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