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What do I need to fix this mess that the previous owners left me. All advice welcome.

by Marinedawggc

7 Comments

  2. StopNowThink

    Is this a road? Is there pavement under there?

  3. According-Taro4835

    You are fighting a losing battle against the mail carrier and delivery trucks. They are pulling off the asphalt to get to that heavy stone mailbox and their tires are chewing up the edge. Grass will never grow in highly compacted red clay that gets driven over six days a week. If you just throw topsoil and seed down you are throwing your money straight in the trash. You cannot fight the mail truck so you have to accommodate it.

    You need to build a proper structural shoulder. Grab a spade and cut a clean sweeping curve from your driveway edge right past that mailbox. Excavate about four to six inches of that rutted clay to give yourself a nice trench. Fill it with crush and run gravel and tamp the living daylights out of it with a rented plate compactor. That gives you a locked in base that easily handles the weight of a truck without turning into a mud pit every time it rains.

    If you want it to look high end instead of just looking like a county highway repair you can top that solid gravel base with some heavy granite cobbles. Laying a wide border of cobbles flush with the asphalt will tie in perfectly with the masonry of your mailbox pillar. It creates a bulletproof transition zone between the road and your lawn that finally looks intentional instead of neglected.

  4. Many-Salad-5680

    Put down gravel. You’re fighting a losing battle

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