[gg339]

Hi,
Please forgive me - IO know nothinbg about gardening#!!

I recently had to replace some pipes running through my lawn. After doing so and clearing all the rubble from digging, I got a load of topsoil, levelled, raked and picked it ready for reseeding.

I was going to give it a light roll just to get the seeds in full contact with the soil but had to leave the country for a few days. I then asked my friend to roll it as I believed he had a hand roller - he however rolled using a sit-on roller - granted a small one but much larger than the hand one.

After the very heavy rain lastnight there is one or two puddles in the newly-sown soil and I'm now worried that the seeds will either be too wet or unable to root properly.

In fairness I thought it would have held more water, so maybe its not too bad, but any advice on what I should do - or not - would be greatly appreciated.

I was thinking maybe a few sticks of a fork in the small puddles might just do.
Incidentally, the seeds were only planted on over the weekend. It was rolled on monday.

Thanks in advance.
Ger

[crosseyedsheep]

Hi, welcome to IG.

Everything will probably be OK but a few prods of a fork wouldn't do any harm. Best advice would be to wait and see. I didn't realise you could get a sit on roller for a garden
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