I've often seen ground like that in dry spells when out walking in the countryside. I wouldn't worry about it, just when ground gets as dry as that it takes an awful lot of water to rehydrate it (will happen naturally as soon as we get some wet weather of course), especially if it's a patch which normally holds moisture well.
As said above if you're really worried check the deeds but it's likely to just be this long dry spell.
As a child growing up on a farm in the countryside, cracks like those in the soil were commonplace in a dry summer. Absolutely nothing to worry about unless your home is built on the edge of a cliff or similar.
The problem is we've not had a properly dry summer for so long, there's a generation of people who've never seen this.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I get cracks like that in areas of our garden, more this year than last as we haven't had rain. We also have clay soil. The areas that don't do it are ones where we had a skip and dug loads of clay out.
We ended up spiking the whole lawn with one of those things that takes the plugs of earth out. We top dressed with sharp sand, compost, grass seed and a light loam and filled the holes in as we were going.
Mine too I am worried cos of sinkhole! I got large trees but the trees are planted between me n neighbours her garden s ok no cracks. The main cracks are on soil where we put barking over n the grass too got cracks n put a stick into them to measure which is 2 feel depth
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I've often seen ground like that in dry spells when out walking in the countryside. I wouldn't worry about it, just when ground gets as dry as that it takes an awful lot of water to rehydrate it (will happen naturally as soon as we get some wet weather of course), especially if it's a patch which normally holds moisture well.
As said above if you're really worried check the deeds but it's likely to just be this long dry spell.
I see you live in Bexley/ Are you on London clay?
As a child growing up on a farm in the countryside, cracks like those in the soil were commonplace in a dry summer. Absolutely nothing to worry about unless your home is built on the edge of a cliff or similar.
The problem is we've not had a properly dry summer for so long, there's a generation of people who've never seen this.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
London clay...I believe so...Ok I will leave it for a while, hopefully after this heatwave passes the soil may get better
Thank you for the help!!
I now know not to worry...unless it gets worse of course
I have clay soil and get this problem. I fill the cracks with compost to help stop water from running straight down when I need to get the hose out.
If your drainage is normally poor during wet spells then this could point to clay also.
My whole garden was like this at my old house if it's any comfort!
I get cracks like that in areas of our garden, more this year than last as we haven't had rain. We also have clay soil. The areas that don't do it are ones where we had a skip and dug loads of clay out.
We ended up spiking the whole lawn with one of those things that takes the plugs of earth out. We top dressed with sharp sand, compost, grass seed and a light loam and filled the holes in as we were going.
Very hard work but it did the trick!