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Posted by SteveB on April 11, 2008, 12:44 pm
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> I have a city lot in Milwaukee.
>
> I purchased the house last July, and posted here about what to do with
> the unkempt lawn... Thanks to the suggestions I got here, I got rid of
> most of the weeds without killing the grass.
>
> Now I'm on a new mission. With all the rain we've been having lately,
> the poor topography of my lawn is making itself apparent. Basically, my
> entire lawn is sitting in 1-3" of water, with the deepest parts in the
> center of the lawn. Once the depression is filled, all the excess water
> flows into the driveway and down to the street properly. But I am left
> with standing water in the lawn for a day or two after the rain stops.
>
> My thought was to get 15-18 yards of dirt (its roughly a 35' x 56' back
> yard), drop it on top of the existing lawn, landscape the depressions out
> and grade the entire lawn towards the driveway, reseed, and have a
> properly drained yard.
>
> If I drop 3" of loose soil on top of the existing lawn, would I have to
> bother with tilling the base soil first, or will 3" be enough for a strong
> root system to establish itself and deal with the tighter soil beneath?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
What I'd do:
Dig a trench. It only has to be about a foot to eighteen inches deep from
where you want to drain to a lower spot. Put some weed cloth in the bottom.
An inch of pea gravel. Add a piece of perforated drain pipe, available in
100' lengths. Add pea gravel until about three inches from the surface.
Put another layer of weed cloth. Put your grass plugs you've saved on top
of that to bring it flush. Works beautifully for draining. Called a French
Drain. The quickest simplest easiest cheapest way to go unless you just
want to landscape all that anyway, which you can do later, and the drain
will still function.
Steve
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