Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: charliesmum on March 08, 2007, 12:03

Title: Mud glorious mud
Post by: charliesmum on March 08, 2007, 12:03

Well, ventured down to the allotment this morning (first time in a couple of weeks) and spent 1.5 hours digging mud.  By the time I'd finished, I was the colour of a postbox and you couldn't really tell what I had done !

I'm sure in a few months when I have something growing, I'll laugh about it, but right now I feel as though I'm not getting anywhere.

Anyone else having the same problem ?

Title: Mud glorious mud
Post by: Puff on March 08, 2007, 12:17

Could you leave the digging until the soil dries out a bit?  I'm sure I read somewhere that diggin when it's wet does something horrible to the soil structure.  But I'm a newbie so I'm quite likely to be wrong!  :lol:

Title: Mud glorious mud
Post by: richyrich7 on March 08, 2007, 12:33

Yes Puff your right it does damage the soil structure, best lay off digging for a while charliesmum frustrating though. :)
Just found out my car failed it's MOT today  :(  so untill it's fixed I'm going no where near my lottie  :(  :(

Title: Mud glorious mud
Post by: mum2many on March 08, 2007, 13:18

Mine is like that too, hoping this sun wil dry it out for weekend.

hoping to mark the beds and paths out.