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Title: How To Lay Turf
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- How to Improve
- your Topsoil
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Step One
- Dig your Soil Over - digging your topsoil over
improves the soil in many ways, it aerates the
soil, mixes organic matter into the soil and
moves leached nutrients back up into the root
zone as well as breaking it up to make the soil
easier for roots to penetrate and therefore grow.
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Step Two
- Add more organic matter
- Add organic matter in the form of mushroom
compost or soil improver, this will add nutrients
and improve the soil structure. Organic matter
is a vital element in a good quality topsoil, it
holds essential plant nutrients close to the
plant root system, locks in moisture and help
break up heavy soils.
Mushroom Compost
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Step Three - Mulching
- Mulching is the process of covering the soil
surface with a ground cover material, this
material can take the form of bark chippings,
leaf mould or compost. The benefits of mulching
are to increase soil temperatures (mulching keeps
the heat in), decrease evaporation of moisture
(therefore keeping plants well watered), and if
you use a compost as a mulch you benefit from
slow releasing nutrients feeding the soil.
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How do I Calculate Volume?
- It is easiest to calculate volume in cubic metres
or litres. To do this simply measure the length,
width and depth of the area you need to fill with
soil in metres and multiply the three figures
together to get the volume in cubic metres.
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- So how many tonnes to the cubic metre?
- As a general rule a tonne of screened topsoil
equals around 750 litres (0.75 cubic metres) or
1.3 tonnes to the cubic metre. - It should be noted that blended topsoil may be
less dense and therefore closer to 900 litres or
even 1 cubic metre to the tonne.
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Now simply divide the volume in cubic metres by
the cubic metre per tonne figure.If I need 9
cubic metre of screened topsoil. 9 divided by
0.75 12 tonne.
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