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Advice needed for levelling a large bumpy lawn

Posted by william frost on June 5, 2016 at 10:56pm in Landscaping

I'm doing a quote for a large garden. A part of it involves levelling a large area of lawn that used to be an orchard. The trees have long since gone but what we are left with is a very uneven lawn that is very difficult to mow. The clients wants a re-turf and I wondered if there was any advice anyone could give me on the best way to go about this?
The lawn is around 120m2, What I usually do for smaller lawns is remove top layer of turf and dispose, then dig over the area with a mattock, roughly level then screed with top soil.

I'm not sure whether this is the best way to level a lawn t his large. Any advice gratefully received.

Will

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  • Russ Francis June 6, 2016 at 7:47am

    Guess it depends on how uneven the lawn is but I'd be looking to spray off the existing grass and then run over the ground with something like this http://www.groundscare-products.co.uk/pr.htm and level it out from there.

    • william frost > Russ Francis June 7, 2016 at 4:29pm

      Thanks for the suggestion but some of the mounds are over 30cm high

      • Russ Francis > william frost June 10, 2016 at 8:48am

        Hmm in that case I guess it's either back to the mattock but that would be hard work, or perhaps rotovate the high spots, level out and consolidate.  There might be a levelling 'something' out there that could be fitted to a garden tractor perhaps ?  Sorry not much help !

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    Richard Gadsby June 6, 2016 at 5:28pm
    Maybe get a flail mower set low on it. It will make a mess but hopefully get some of the lumps out .
    The fill/top dress and reseed.
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    James Brett June 10, 2016 at 8:59am
    Rotovate and bobcat?

    Or small compact tractor to rotovate and drag out
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    Progreen Weed Control June 10, 2016 at 10:11am

    Power rake or blec box rake does the same as the rotorvator but also gives a finer tilth to the soil ready for seeding and a rough level to work with....and no stones!

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