We have just returned from a site that was an inch away from closing the week before last. We arrived with the ground next to the entrance very boggy with lots of tyre tracks where the farmer had been pulling campers off site.
We pitched our tent on top of a yellow patch of grass...the perimter round the patch being longish grass. The only gripe I had was someone hadn't collected up all their tent pegs and left a stray fag butt or two....and of course, the ground was sodden. Nevertheless, we were perfetly happy....no huge drama.
We stayed five nights on this ground...bearing in mind this is almost the end of the season and when we broke camp this morning grass was GROWING under our sig...as indeed it was under every other pitch that had vacated that day.
With a day or so of air, sun, wind , rain...that ground will have recovered perfectly well...even more so if it could be 'topped' a couple of times before the end of the season.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest pitching on yellow grass ( fag butts and cans of beans do tend to irritate ! ).....because with this spate of weather you really can';t avoid it.
However, people shouldn't be making others feel guilty ( esp those with sigs ) saying the grass will die....over a season it certainly will not. You try getting rid of it to start up a veggie patch and you'll soon find out !.....tarps and months later....!!
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Topic: Have a go at SIG week.
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