Hello everyone! I have a little experience working on with a garden with my mom. This damage is not caused by me but the moving company and I can no longer contact them for some reason. Anyhow, can anyone help me or guide me how to restore this, the condominium management is charging me for $950 Canadian dollars to fix it and I think I can restore it with the help of my friend. Please share your wisdom or send me a link on how to tackle this problem thank you very much for your time! See attached photo.
by Disastrous-Object67
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Don’t let the condo board fleece you for a grand over a couple of tire ruts. Grab a heavy duty digging fork and aggressively loosen the soil at the bottom of those trenches. That moving truck compacted the dirt into concrete and if you just dump fresh topsoil over it you create an underground bathtub that will drown the new grass. Toss the dead turf chunks away, loosen the bottom, and fill the ruts with a decent topsoil mix. Tamp it down with your boots so it sits just a hair above the existing lawn to account for spring settling.
Since you have snow on the ground you are just doing grade repair until spring when you can lay down a few rolls of fresh sod. Cut the edges of your repair area clean with a spade so the new sod fits like a tight puzzle piece rather than a sloppy patch job. If the condo board is flexible you could avoid sod entirely and just expand that bare shrub bed out to the sidewalk. You can snap a picture of the mess and run it through the GardenDream web app to show the management exactly how a cleaner expanded planting bed would look. It acts as a nice blueprint to get their approval before you waste money trying to perfectly match old winter grass.