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Tyre Marks in Garden

  • 21-10-2020 8:21am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks - we have tyre marks (from a tractor) in our garden, with all the recent rain it's a disaster.

    Looking for advice on how to repair, obviously no point trying anything until the weather improves.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Leave it till spring. Rake it, cover in compost, and sow seed.

    I sympathise. I had my hedges cut recently but stopped him going onto my lawn for the last 20 feet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,600 ✭✭✭893bet


    That will fix it self in the spring when the growth comes back. Give it a light rake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭blackbox


    While the ground is still soft I would use a fork to loosen and lift the soil to get rid of the deeper ruts.

    The other stuff is minor and can wait until Spring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭aw


    If you throw grass seed on it now, there's a fair chance it'll grow, maybe depending on where you are.

    Seed is cheap, give it a shot.
    Lightly rake if it dries out in next couple of days, throw the seed and press it down. This will take the bad look off it.
    Then fix it up properly in the Spring with a little more topsoil and maybe an aeration.

    Worst case, it doesn't germinate and you can still fix it up in Spring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Thanks for the advice folks, if it dries up over the next few days I'll try raise the worst of the soil with a fork and rake it.

    Some parts are badly damaged and it maybe the opportunity to turn that area into a wild meadow feature.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    When it dries up a bit rake some soil over it, to even it out, before seeding, otherwise, if you are cutting it with a ride-on, it will be spine-jarring to cut this section


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Could you not roll it then apply grass seed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    When it dries up a bit rake some soil over it, to even it out, before seeding, otherwise, if you are cutting it with a ride-on, it will be spine-jarring to cut this section
    Exactly that, the ride-on is so old I don't think it would survive it.
    Could you not roll it then apply grass seed?
    I don't have a roller, think it'll be a while before I can do anything - been constant rain here!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    aw wrote: »
    If you throw grass seed on it now, there's a fair chance it'll grow, maybe depending on where you are.


    have seed that i planted about two weeks ago, all the wet weather has meant that i haven needed to water it and its fairly taking off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Who made the tyre marks and why. The reason I ask is that if it was the guys that do pole and cable maintenance networks ireland (?) then they are normally very helpful getting that sort of thing sorted. I had even bigger ruts and they offered to drop off a load of topsoil and get them filled in.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭aw


    shanec1928 wrote: »
    have seed that i planted about two weeks ago, all the wet weather has meant that i haven needed to water it and its fairly taking off.

    Excellent.
    At least it won't be bugging you looking out at it over the winter!


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