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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.
mespilus-
Cheers.
Really sensible suggestion on the paving stones. So obvious too now you've said it.
I usually cut around them every so often to tidy them up, but actually just raising them would be better. We didn't really like them that much when we moved in, but after the first winter realised why they were there.
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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.ive literally done this today. But I read somewhere that the sand doesn't actually do anything, so that saved me a kob. In my case it wasn't so much for drainage but to aerate the very compacted lawn a bit and hopefully kill off some moss and encourage some patchy bits to grow. i also raked the lot beforehand and sprinkled over compost and some patch restorer after, so we'll see how that goes
hugo7
fizzy.bleach
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.