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Poor ground......

  • 10-05-2012 9:15pm
    #1
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭


    Advice please,
    Was looking at some land for sale today 20acre plot (just looking). The land was recently reclaimed and reseeded but the results dont look great. It borders a bog at rear.

    The grass cover appeares sparce and hungry, the soil appears lackey..at the edge of dry drains there appears to be little to no depth of topsoil. to be honest i recon that someone spent thousands trying to make a silk purse from sows ear due to the type of soil, There are a few dry drains going thru the high end?? .....:rolleyes: & there is evidence of rush thru out...

    Is there a fix for this type of ground? such as leaving the grass to grow and rot for a few years, plough in crops , slurry, dung.???? to me it looks like it needs topsoil or at least a scraw...

    This ground was bought for about 25k per acre during the boom before reclaimation:p i'd say it would be hard to rent it out now......

    cheers..


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  • #2
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    Advice please,
    Was looking at some land for sale today 20acre plot (just looking). The land was recently reclaimed and reseeded but the results dont look great. It borders a bog at rear.

    The grass cover appeares sparce and hungry, the soil appears lackey..at the edge of dry drains there appears to be little to no depth of topsoil. to be honest i recon that someone spent thousands trying to make a silk purse from sows ear due to the type of soil, There are a few dry drains going thru the high end?? .....:rolleyes: & there is evidence of rush thru out...

    Is there a fix for this type of ground? such as leaving the grass to grow and rot for a few years, plough in crops , slurry, dung.???? to me it looks like it needs topsoil or at least a scraw...

    This ground was bought for about 25k per acre during the boom before reclaimation:p i'd say it would be hard to rent it out now......

    cheers..

    Sounds like it'll need constant work just to keep it poor/average..
    Might be OK but you'd want to be getting it cheap...

    Half of our land is marginal like you describe, it's hard work keeping it any way workable and if you take your eye off the ball (as happened here) it goes bad real quick..


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