new sprinkler install tore up my yard

briley

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Monday, August 15th 2011, 2:02pm

new sprinkler install tore up my yard

i just got a new sprinkler system installed this weekend the dug up the ground friday night and of course it rained and turned all the dug up dirt into mud not that they finished they filled all the trenches with the mud and yard looks horrible will the grass grow back over all the clumpy mud or what should i do to fix it?

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Wet_Boots

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Monday, August 15th 2011, 2:14pm

move to another house - that'll show 'em

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seansy59

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Location: NJ, USA

Monday, August 15th 2011, 4:22pm

Mud is just dirt with water. Water dries, just turns back to dirt. It may be clumpy.

Level it out, put down some topsoil, grass seed. Water with your new system thouroughly, and keep seed damp.

It will look better in about a month.

I'm no expert..........YET!