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Hi guys, <br />I have had a trial section of track down for a few weeks now, my garden is mainly lawn that gets very wet in winter and very dry in summer. I marked out the track position and cut through the sod with a knife and then rolled it back in sections to expose the soil. I have a load of old housebricks so I positioned these parrallel in the trench with a 4" gap between them and infilled the gap with broken brick, rubble etc. I poured some fine gravel on top, positioned the track and then topped off the gravel. I rolled the grass back and cut off the excess sod to the edge of the brick. The garden was quite wet when I did this and it has now dried out to rock hard, the bricks haven't moved & the track's fine. The bricks give me a good edge to cut grass to and the drainage should be ok because I haven't used any polythene, I'll zap any weeds that pu***hrough! The track is proud of the land level by an inch or so, depending on levels, and should be above water level even during the heaviest rain, so I have decided that this is the best I've had and to install the rest. Keep you informed. <br />Cheers, <br />Kim <br />[tup]
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