[daveinmanc]

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:

[richyrich7]

Double dig the bottom may help as the rotovator may have created a "pan" and the water can't penetrate it,

or you could dig a big deep hole and fill it with brick ends, gravel etc to create a sump. Bit hard graft tho'.

[Selkie]

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:

[daveinmanc]

hmmm think i'll have to give the bricks a miss rich, spent weeks picking bits out n throwing em away lol ... . . . . .

thought the garden was like a builders dumping ground. . . . . maybe thats why lol     :shock:

[richyrich7]

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:

[Selkie]

But they dry out quicker in summer  :roll:

 :roll: ours probably won't (when we ever get them ) it rains sooo much here

[WG.]

it rains sooo much here

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

[Selkie]

if i had a euro for everytime i've been told that....

[David.]

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.

[WG.]

if i had a euro for everytime i've been told that....

 Do you accept PayPal?

[Selkie]

actually we do

[daveinmanc]

no its not new david, pretty much the opposite its an old cottage. . . . . . .

its been turned over a couple of times with a rotivator and in all fairness probably needs a bit more levelling and a run over with a roller to compress it a bit cos its very loose when its been rotivated. . . . . . . . .