How to repair a seriously damaged field.

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I'm ophaving a manege built (yay!!!) but of course we planned it in the middle of the summer, very dry weather, minimal damage to land. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's poured down but as the thing was booked in we had to just get on with it. The fields, however, have sustained some serious cutting up so what should I do about repairing them? Is it worth re- seeding in the autumn? Thanks.
 
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I'm ophaving a manege built (yay!!!) but of course we planned it in the middle of the summer, very dry weather, minimal damage to land. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's poured down but as the thing was booked in we had to just get on with it. The fields, however, have sustained some serious cutting up so what should I do about repairing them? Is it worth re- seeding in the autumn? Thanks.
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I DO hate people who boast about all the rain they've had - when my fields are rock hard dust bowls! But - because I'm nice - I'll try to help anyway!:D

First question - do you have access to any farm machinery?? Or friendly local farmer/contractor? And do you have a nice well-rotted muckheap?

And is the ground still wettish!

If the ground is wettish, then rolling would sort it. It's not often you NEED to re-seed (unless you've been overly-liberal with weed killer. There is plenty of grass seed in the ground - and the roots of the grass that was damaged are still there and will no doubt come again.

My ground is heavy clay and I can rarely roll it - by the time it's dry enough it's TOO dry! So where I have badly poached areas, I dump a few tractor loads of well rotted much, and run the harrows (or the transport box) over the piles to push the muck down into ruts! Works a treat!
 
Sorry Janet!

We too are on clay and yes it's very wet actually.

Plenty of rotted manure I have - so that's good.

Thanks.
 
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