Is anyone else having trouble with damp?

[Peter 1955]

I have one customer whose garden “ retains water “ and in a dry time, her grass is the envy of all. Currently, it’s a tad soggy! Last night, I decided I had to give it a trim, before we saw lions and tigers roaming through it! I got all the best bits with the 4wd Husky, and this morning the apprentice took the push mower through whatever he could, and I strimmed everything less than ankle deep. Looks a lot better, but till a settled dry spell, this one’s going to be “ interesting “. 😂

[manco]

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[nepia]

Some drainage issues there.  Any ditches nearby that are supposed to take the water away or is the problem more localised, e.g. compaction?

Perhaps a tractor with a leg behind it in the late summer would help 😲

[GarethM]

It's a field not a "garden" and probably includes a soak away for the rainwater off the house

Edited April 13 by GarethM

[WirralBoy]

Shouldn't this be in the Joke thread?

 

Just looking at that ground and the lawnmower in the background.

 

😀

[Peter 1955]

2 hours ago, nepia said:

Some drainage issues there.  Any ditches nearby that are supposed to take the water away or is the problem more localised, e.g. compaction?

Perhaps a tractor with a leg behind it in the late summer would help 😲

There is an additional drainage issue, one which I swerved when a nice man put a digester with a pump in. No ditches that this property has access to, no. 

2 hours ago, GarethM said:

It's a field not a "garden" and probably includes a soak away for the rainwater off the house

Close in many respects, the garden has the mower in, the field has the soakaway for the digester. I can see me yet putting a drain in to take the surplus moisture away from the house, and into an adjacent field. 

2 hours ago, WirralBoy said:

Shouldn't this be in the Joke thread?

 

Just looking at that ground and the lawnmower in the background.

 

😀

Whimsy, rather than Joke, I'd say.