waterlogged garden!

Hello,

We have recently moved to a new house. the garden wasnt maintained at all well although the grass was occassionally cut. The garden is flat and level throughout,. however it gets badly waterlogged whenever it rains which is a real pain. it has paving slabs round the outside and a lawn area in the middle. We have tried digging holes with a fork to improve drainage to no avail. Our neighbours either sides appear to have no problems with drainage at all so we are confused as to what the problem could be. the houses are all local authority. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. We've checked for burst pipes and this isnt an issue

thank you

 

is your lawn slightly sunken, my mums neighbour has a sunkun lawn and that floods much quicker than the surrounding gardens? Perhaps the paving round the edge is having an effect ie all run off ends up in the garden. You shoulod have the same sub soil as neighbours (although not for sure) so that probably isnt it, although as said above there could be anything under there!

 

How long is recently as it must be near impossible to judge given the recent rain.

If your grass is growing well, or signs that it has in the past then I would doubt that you have a permenant problem, just a temporary one.

 

We moved here in november and its rained pretty much constant in devon since then!!!! All three replies to my question have been very useful so thanks to everyone thats replied. the grass looks green all over so its not dying off and looks sort of healthy enough just unmaintained so im assuming its not a serious issue, when the better weather comes i guess it will be time to give it a serious sorting out