Major compost problem with Eco-lawn grass seed
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:10 pm
My husband and I are finally at the stage of our lives where we want to focus on gardening and establishing a lawn. We had visions of starting a family and having children running bare feet on this lawn.
On May 17th, 2019, we ordered 6 yards of compost from a wellknown landscaping supply company north of the Greater Toronto Area. The driver was great and had all the soil land on the tarp on the driveway. My husband spent that weekend, about 50 hours, hand bombing about 80% of this compost on 7,000 square feet of our lawn. With the rainfall of the last couple of weeks and my husband diligently watering the lawn, we were hoping to see the Eco-lawn seeds start to germinate. On June 8th, 2019, we looked closer at the dirt all over our lawn and I have picked up tiny pieces of plastic bag remnants, tiny pieces of plastic, tiny pieces of glass. I can even read the tiny print on some of the plastic pieces. These pieces of garbage were never there before the compost. All of this garbage is found everywhere that we spread this compost on our lawn. We are beside ourselves realizing that the compost we trusted to be "premium 1/4" compost" (described as leaf, yard and food waste) and what the Eco-lawn seeding instructions called for is actually mostly dark mulch with tiny pieces of garbage all over our 7,000 square feet of lawn and the grass seeds have not taken.
Do you have any advice on how we can get all these minute, tiny pieces of plastic garbage off the lawn? We worked so hard to take care of our lawn including individually de-weeding the garden to make sure the Eco-lawn seed took. I am so worried that now instead of creating a sanctuary of a garden I have created a wasteland. We struggled with fertility for years and I just can't believe that a place where we want children to play is now covered in these very tiny pieces of garbage.
Please advise of anything that we can do to get this garbage off of 7,000 square feet of lawn? I hate the idea of just ordering more soil and burying the garbage that is now all spread out over our lawn. My husband is focussed on having a visually nice lawn but am concerned about all the garbage on the lawn (it would be like picking millions of pieces of lint off a king size blanket one by one). Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for reading this long post!
On May 17th, 2019, we ordered 6 yards of compost from a wellknown landscaping supply company north of the Greater Toronto Area. The driver was great and had all the soil land on the tarp on the driveway. My husband spent that weekend, about 50 hours, hand bombing about 80% of this compost on 7,000 square feet of our lawn. With the rainfall of the last couple of weeks and my husband diligently watering the lawn, we were hoping to see the Eco-lawn seeds start to germinate. On June 8th, 2019, we looked closer at the dirt all over our lawn and I have picked up tiny pieces of plastic bag remnants, tiny pieces of plastic, tiny pieces of glass. I can even read the tiny print on some of the plastic pieces. These pieces of garbage were never there before the compost. All of this garbage is found everywhere that we spread this compost on our lawn. We are beside ourselves realizing that the compost we trusted to be "premium 1/4" compost" (described as leaf, yard and food waste) and what the Eco-lawn seeding instructions called for is actually mostly dark mulch with tiny pieces of garbage all over our 7,000 square feet of lawn and the grass seeds have not taken.
Do you have any advice on how we can get all these minute, tiny pieces of plastic garbage off the lawn? We worked so hard to take care of our lawn including individually de-weeding the garden to make sure the Eco-lawn seed took. I am so worried that now instead of creating a sanctuary of a garden I have created a wasteland. We struggled with fertility for years and I just can't believe that a place where we want children to play is now covered in these very tiny pieces of garbage.
Please advise of anything that we can do to get this garbage off of 7,000 square feet of lawn? I hate the idea of just ordering more soil and burying the garbage that is now all spread out over our lawn. My husband is focussed on having a visually nice lawn but am concerned about all the garbage on the lawn (it would be like picking millions of pieces of lint off a king size blanket one by one). Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for reading this long post!