The Enemy Beneath Your Feet
The vast majority of gardens in Newcastle, Durham, and Northumberland are built on heavy clay soil. While clay is great for holding onto certain nutrients, its physical structure is an absolute nightmare for domestic lawns.
The Two Extremes of Clay
- The Winter Swamp: Clay particles are microscopic and pack tightly together. When it rains, the water cannot pass through the dense earth. It pools on the surface, drowning the grass roots, suffocating the soil of oxygen, and encouraging thick moss growth.
- The Summer Concrete: When the sun finally comes out, clay bakes hard. It shrinks and cracks, tearing the delicate grass roots apart and making it impossible for water to penetrate when it finally does rain.
The Permanent Solution
You cannot fix clay by just laying turf over it. We solve the problem by excavating the top layer, deep-tine rotovating the sub-base, and mixing in hundreds of kilos of sharp sand and organic matter to completely change the soil's physical structure before we lay the grass.