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The classic old-school gardening method is use of a garden fork,
making many holes the full depth of the tines
and brushing in sharp sand to allow respite from showers.
Google claims Ruislip had 27.9mm of rain yesterday,
everywhere nearby is going to be sodden after that.Could relay paving stones on top of a some additional topsoil to raise them up.
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Have you got guttering on your shed? If you haven't, you could fit some and have it drain into a water butt, sat on a plinth so you can easily access the drain tap. Then what comes off the roof is not adding to what's on the grass already. Drill a hole for a pipe fitting that can act as an overflow and attach a length of hose to a drain or soak away. I ended up daisy chaining water butts which due to a particularly wet period all filled up with water I didn't need to use.
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All the rain yesterday left out lawn looking lovely. Then the combined effort of me pruning and mini-H playing has left bits of it muddy as fuck.
I remember last year it looking like the Somme after a few months.
Is there anything I can do?
We have the heaviest of clay clay soil and it's worst next to the shed which has a concrete base and I discovered has a tonne of pretty solid hardcore around it.
Current thoughts are sand - but how can this be done cheaply in a large quantity? Or maybe putting another set of paving stones on top of the existing ones to give a less sodden path.
Cheers.
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