Hi there please can any body help me I think iv got clay soil so my plants are getting drowned when the rain falls heavy, once the rain stops the flood is disappeared. I have tried to dig deep and put Clay breaker. But some how it still floods?
Please can anyone help me? I think I have clay soil. My plants and flowers drown and keeps flooding. I have dug around the soil and put clay breaker but don’t seem to do the job, do you think I should dig really deep down and take all the clay soil out and replace it with top soil, also my lawn near to the beds are kind of flooding to. Please help
Hello Thunura90, Does the lawn slope down towards the fence and is the flooding only bad when it rains hard? This has been such a long wet winter that most garden are suffering and you might find it gets better with more warmth and sunshine. I would suggest if it's always a bit wet, then make the border wider and then put in bigger plants that actually like damp clay soil - you can find them on the GW website and others. You need to work with the conditions you've got and not plant things that won't grow well. Your little conifers? like drier ground as I would remove them and put them in pots instead. Your bulbs won't like the wet either I'm afraid.
I too have had a problem with boggy wet clay soil and after trying lots of different options I resorted to having a raised bed built and had a ton of grit and top soil added. My plants are thriving and the layer of grit on the ground at the bottom means (I assume) that the plants with deeper roots don't sit in water. Mostly though I've put bulbs, annuals and a few perrenials in the bed and it's the second year and everything looks good! It's costly but in the long term less heartbreaking. You could look into a soak away as I've heard some people use that as an option to drain water away. Other option is to create a bog garden, there are lots of plants that do actually like boggy wet soil if it's like that all year round.
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