Digging a trench/ditch alongside soggy ground will help to dry it out and lower the water table.
When the land has dried out, half filling the trench with pebbles and then topping up with soil will permanently improve the drainage - or you can create an open land drain as above.
If you can join it up with a ditch so much the better.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The land drain joins to another at the bottom of the garden. My problem is the black clay is so fine that drainage is slow. I'll catch up with you all later.
We built a land drain two weeks ago to take run off from our patio, it works a treat. Without it our patio sat underwater for days. We dug out the clay to a spades depth and replaced it with a layer of sub base, John Innes No 3 and pea shingle then planted some Ajuga into it which will form a mat to hold soil particles so they don't dirty the patio. It had to look decorative as it comes before a small retaining wall onto the rest of the garden. You can build this in a day.
Sorry our camera is broken, I'll see if I can use husband's phone later. It is basically a sump which allows the water time to drain, out of sight, so we can still use our patio without wellies on.
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That pic was taken Sunday afternoon, water is gone down a fair bit now but soil is very wet still.
Digging a trench/ditch alongside soggy ground will help to dry it out and lower the water table.
When the land has dried out, half filling the trench with pebbles and then topping up with soil will permanently improve the drainage - or you can create an open land drain as above.
If you can join it up with a ditch so much the better.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The land drain joins to another at the bottom of the garden. My problem is the black clay is so fine that drainage is slow. I'll catch up with you all later.
We built a land drain two weeks ago to take run off from our patio, it works a treat. Without it our patio sat underwater for days. We dug out the clay to a spades depth and replaced it with a layer of sub base, John Innes No 3 and pea shingle then planted some Ajuga into it which will form a mat to hold soil particles so they don't dirty the patio. It had to look decorative as it comes before a small retaining wall onto the rest of the garden. You can build this in a day.
Mrs G, do you have a photo of that we could see? id like to see how its done.
Sorry our camera is broken, I'll see if I can use husband's phone later. It is basically a sump which allows the water time to drain, out of sight, so we can still use our patio without wellies on.