I just thought I would pass along a little something I am trying. We just completed our little
retirement cottage in late summer. We moved in late July. It was awful dry all summer here in Ohio so I put off planting any type of ground cover or
yard until fall. Between finishing touches on the cottage, building a
chicken coop, and other "stuff", a yard just didn't get put in.
Then came fall rains. It was pretty much a mud hole. We finely got a driveway in so we could drive and park without the mud issues. From the driveway to the back porch, I put a gravel sidewalk for now. It was wonderful.
BUT! There was still a big problem. Our home is built in an old reclaimed stripmine pit. It is all solid clay. When we let the dogs out, they would avoid gravel at all costs so they could maximize the opportunity to track the think juicy clay mud back into the house.
I put an ad on Craigs list "in need of junk hay".
I got more calls and offers than I could possibly handle. The end result was a total of 4 - 1500lb round bales of hey DELIVERED! for a total cost of $50.00. I have been spreading the
hay all over (what will be the yard). It covers the clay mud AND will go along way tward ammending the soil for grass next spring. I hope my idea works as well for growing grass as it does for covering mud. I plan to just sprinking the grass
seed down through the partually decomposed hay,
water well, and pray.
What do you think? Will it work?
Tim