{"id":160,"date":"2016-06-24T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:33:43","slug":"changing-lawn-levels-by-adding-topsoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/changing-lawn-levels-by-adding-topsoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Lawn Levels By Adding Topsoil."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Question<\/a><br \/>\n I have an existing lawn which is on a slight slope ie the garden is 30ft long and at one end is 200mm lower than say half way up the garden<br \/> What I want to do is to try and level the garden.<br \/>\nMy question is do I have to dig up the existing turf or can I put topsoil on top of the turf and reseed \/returf.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Answer<\/a><br \/>\nYour can raise the existing lawn level by applying topsoil onto of the existing turf but its a good idea to kill the existing grass with round up weed killer and  break up the surface of the existing grass with a rotovator or lightly digging it over.For More information.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\"> click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question I have an existing lawn which is on a slight slope ie the garden is 30ft long and at one end is 200mm lower than say half way up the garden What I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}