Lawn Free

There was, once, a car space at the front of the house where the residents of the townhouses (built on the old garden) were wont to park. Which is annoying, considering its not townhouse land. It’s mine.

Not that that stops the residents of the townhouses from parking there, so while I was excavating the drains I hit on a cunning plan: turn it into a fine stretch of turf.

Of course the easy plan would be to dig the thing up, taking a pneumatic drill to the six inches of concrete and producing a lake of waste concrete.

However I had other ideas: what if, I thought, it was possible to just quietly bury the offending car park space so that if in the future someone wanted to park, say, a Winnebago on the ground, it would be easy enough to dig it up again.

Now normally you wouldn’t attempt to lay turf over concrete, but by spiking it – to improve the drainage – and burying it really really deep; a good eight inches should suffice – it was possible to get a neat level lawn.

Or at least future lawn: it’ll take all winter to grow, of course.