Please help with my "lawn"

[Pringlays]

Ok so my lawn is basically turning into a swamp!At the back of my house is my "lawn then some trees and then theres wetlands or a swamp whatever you wanna call it.My backyard has clay soil and was always been a bit damp even in the summer which I thought was ok becouse the grass was always so green.But I got 2 ducks last year just 2 and in the middle of the backyard were it was greenest they loved it and drilled into the lawn with there bills and I guess uprooting lots of grass and it was always like that the whole winter to with freezing temps it never froze so thats making me think they somehow poked a hole in a spring under the lawn and the warm water is comeing up?Does this make any sense?So the real question is is how I can make it dry up is there any kind of stuff that will soak up the water?Thanks

 

[vfem]

I am no good with swampy lawns... mine gets swampy and nasty and then I end up with 1/2 an acre of mushy weeds!

Around my driveway I putting in a self made drain of addition rocks so I can redirect SOME water to where it can run off. Other then that, its an issue drainage... can you level your land... or are you stuck with what you got?!

 

[Pringlays]

Do you think I could build a trench that will lead the water back o the swamp?

 

[patandchickens]

From what you say it sounds like it is water-filled because it is low, not because it can't drain. Your ducks would not have 'poked a hole into a spring', they probably just compacted the soil and/or destroyed the grass enough to make a lower spot.

If it is just one area, I'd suggest filling it in. Quickest thing would be to level it with sand or topsoil then add sod (purchased, or from somewhere else in your lawn if you were going to be removing turf to dig up a new bed *anyhow*).

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[obsessed]

I agree with Pat. I have ducks and they found a spot that was already low and they made it lower. Then i moved them to a better spot and they sunk it like an inch. I actually live in a swamp or what was swamp before they built houses on it. All I can say bring in a load of dirt maybe two. And they in a couple of years you may need to bring in more. That is what they do here load after load after load.