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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