What is the best plan for a plot of mud..? 22 December 2014 at 3:36PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Greenfingered MoneySaving 3 replies 876 views

harveybobbles

So, at the end of the garden there is a section about 40x80ft.

It was grass last year, but it is now 10 inch deep mud. What would be the best wat to get rid/reduce the mud and get it back to grass?

The mud was caused by the chickens and the pig, which have since been moved elsewhere..

Zeferino

The soil has likely been compacted by the pigs and there's no earthworms left alive.

If it was a dryish area before, leave until spring then get a 1 tonne bag of sharp grit and 1 tone of top soil, hire a tiller and dig those in, then returf.

cyclonebri1

It should be highly fertile given pigs and chicken muck.

Hire a decent sized rotavator and work it deeply, late spring then seed or turf. This being MSE, :money::money:, and me being me, I'd seed.
I wouldn't introduce anything else.:xmassign::xmassign:

wallbash

I would do nothing until at least the end of March. Then I would review the options, no point in rushing things now.