Laying new lawn

Matt_L

Hoping for some help here..

Our back garden floods a little with heavy rain, reason being is the gardens behind us are about 2ft higher, meaning their rain water drains into our garden..

So firstly im going to put a drain where the flooding is worst, French drain, but I want two raise my garden by about 6 inches.

My question is, can I just put 4 inches of soil on top of my lawn now and then lay new turf on top of that???

Thanks

-taff

Not now no, it's the wrong time of year for turf laying.
You can raise the height of your intended lawn if you like but then you;ll have a potentially muddy area all winter.
Leave it till the spring.

And that way, if it does flood again, you haven't wasted any hard work.

sb159

If you didn't get round to this in November then it might be worth thinking about getting started now.