Thank you for all of your research on my lawn situation! I’m excited to get started! Do you recommend adding new soil to our compacted soil to get a better start?
You're welcome, Karla! If you use the leaf-piling method, that will add organic material and should be sufficient. I'm wondering whether your soil is really compacted or just hardened; given that your house is 100+ years old, you probably haven't had heavy equipment there. So I would leave the soil alone.
Thanks for this post, Heather. I love the look of sedges and rushes, but I've never been quite sure: can you walk on them the way you would on a turfgrass lawn? From the pic of your (lovely) Brooklyn garden, it looks as though you can.
Absolutely! We walked and had dogs on our path rush regularly. Pennsylvania sedge is supposed to be less resilient, but should be fine under tree without a lot of foot traffic.
Thank you for all of your research on my lawn situation! I’m excited to get started! Do you recommend adding new soil to our compacted soil to get a better start?
You're welcome, Karla! If you use the leaf-piling method, that will add organic material and should be sufficient. I'm wondering whether your soil is really compacted or just hardened; given that your house is 100+ years old, you probably haven't had heavy equipment there. So I would leave the soil alone.
Thanks for this post, Heather. I love the look of sedges and rushes, but I've never been quite sure: can you walk on them the way you would on a turfgrass lawn? From the pic of your (lovely) Brooklyn garden, it looks as though you can.
Absolutely! We walked and had dogs on our path rush regularly. Pennsylvania sedge is supposed to be less resilient, but should be fine under tree without a lot of foot traffic.
Great to know. Thank you!