Solutions, MUD

[roitelet]

I am sure that most of you ae having problems with MUD! We have a lot of grass which we don't want to loose but at the moment it is a quagmire where we have to walk. I am considering putting down the honeycomb stuff that lets the grass grow through but at the same time provides a semi hard surface. Does anyone have any experiance of this?

[AllInContainers]

We used it at a boatyard for this very purpose - making a boggy area usable. It's quite expensive for the area it covers, but it does save sinking into the mire. We'd tried using hardcore and "crush and run", but that didn't help much. The ground tiles did improve it but there was still some movement. Of course that may also have been due to the fact it wasn't just foot traffic, but also heavily laden barrows/hand trucks and a ride-on-mower which had been converted to pull a trailer.

We used it with gravel/pebbles, and it didn't contain them as we hoped, and grass may work better - though I don't know about cutting it. For us it wasn't a permanant solution, but did the job very well untill we could address the area in-depth and get block paving and concrete rafts in place. Bottom line is that these things kept people out of the mud successfully for a couple of years, and if you can get some at the right price it would be worth a try. Depending on how soft the ground is though, you may well find you're better lobbing some hardcore down first in certain areas to give a bit more resistance

[Mikey]

I've laid a fair bit of grasscrete over the years either as a surface to drive on or as a false beach to fish from filling the gaps with decorative chippings.

[Kristen]

I am considering putting down the honeycomb stuff that lets the grass grow through but at the same time provides a semi hard surface. Does anyone have any experiance of this?

I've never seen grass growing in it that looks like a "lawn" - but that might be because it has been laid to allow vehicle traffic, and consequently the grass is struggling.

Put some boards down on the lawn to walk on, move them sideways once a week to let the grass under them recover?

There is a path-on-a-roll you can get too. I'll see if I can find a link.

Land drains is the other solution. We tend to put those in whenever we bring a new area of the garden "on line" as, in the long run, it makes such a huge difference. But we are on heavy clay here, so have a problem even in moderately wet years, let alone quagmire years.

[Kristen]

"Path on a roll" :


£20 for 3M Garden Path on a Roll from Gardening Naturally


£50 of 3M Wooden Roll-Away Path

[roitelet]

Thanks folks. I have found some at a reasonable price so may well order it. It will only have to take foot traffic and the occasional barrow so it should work.

[binley100]

Was just going to say that they've just used the honeycomb stuff in our parking area but I see you're sorted