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Garden left compacted by digger tracks-what to do?

  • 17-07-2011 2:47pm
    #1
    eamon11
    Site Banned Posts: 518 ✭✭✭


    hi Folks,

    got my septic tank and all pipework sorted. However about 1 third of an acre, much in the front garden, was uprooted then flatened over again. He drove back and forth over it with the digger tracks to get it down to the proper level.Now however this is rock hard! I would get a small rodavator only the terrain is very rocky. It might break the rodovator. I spent days taking out the big stones but underneath the surface are so many more. My terrain is so rocky he almost had to bring in a rock breaker to dig. I tried digging with the spade and this is so slow due to all the rock. Its like a sheet of rock. The spade is new, I cannot get the spade to even stand up by forcing it with my hand into the soil.
    I want to re seed it but what are my options?

    Thanks a lot,

    Eamon


Comments

  • #2
    plantlord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭plantlord


    Ground compacted by machinery will still grow grass - after all we are not called the emerald isle for nothing. If the depressions in the soil are really obvious, just fill them in with top soil. Rotavating soil often creates more problems than it solves.


  • #3
    In The Sticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭In The Sticks


    eamon11 wrote: »
    hi Folks,

    got my septic tank and all pipework sorted. However about 1 third of an acre, much in the front garden, was uprooted then flatened over again. He drove back and forth over it with the digger tracks to get it down to the proper level.Now however this is rock hard! I would get a small rodavator only the terrain is very rocky. It might break the rodovator. I spent days taking out the big stones but underneath the surface are so many more. My terrain is so rocky he almost had to bring in a rock breaker to dig. I tried digging with the spade and this is so slow due to all the rock. Its like a sheet of rock. The spade is new, I cannot get the spade to even stand up by forcing it with my hand into the soil.
    I want to re seed it but what are my options?

    Thanks a lot,

    Eamon

    For a start the guy using the digger should have had 'rubber tracks' on his machine if he was going through your garden, I would get him back and fix the mess he left your garden in, by what you said I would say that it would need that digger back to scrape back the grass and put top-soil on top. best of luck


  • #4
    In The Sticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭In The Sticks


    Get the guy that caused the mess back to sort it out, he should have used 'rubber tracks' on his machine when he was going over your garden.


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