soil drainage ideas . . . . .

anyone got any ?

have gone over the OH's garden with the rotivator twice and although the ground is better for it, or was lol, ,now with a couple of good downpours the 'trodden on' bits have gone really boggy ( think swamp lol) and the rains not going into the soil so good.

there is a natural slope to the garden that we're slowly leveling and it is the downwards end where the ground still needs soil putting back on to bring it level thats getting 'bogged down'.

any suggestions please    :idea:

our soil is terribly boggy and also very rocky so we're going to put in raised beds (eventually) -- i am having to wait til our building work on the house is all finished first though - could be years :roll:

Rosemary's solution might suit you better raised beds will help keep roots out of the water in winter and warm up quicker in spring. But they dry out quicker in summer  :roll:

it rains sooo much here

That's what makes it the Emerald Isle  :!:

Not a new build house is it? The topsoil would have been stripped, then the ground level reduced down to heavy (clay?) subsoil or levels made up with same material, then tracked plant, etc. drives over it for several months whilst the sun bakes the surface, then right at the end some (200mm max?) topsoil is spread over the concrete like surface.

actually we do