If your roof water is running down into the garden and not into a soak away, that would cause waterlogging, especially after all of the wet weather which has been prevalent in the last few years. also, the development in the area, on farm land is another, you really do have a problem as your garden looks as if rubble has been used with gay abandonment. Under ground waterways and springs will find their own route as the extensive flooding throughout the country has shown recently. I am also wondering if the rubble from the outside toilet etc. has been buried to get rid of it.
I had no idea there was solidified shale under my garden until I had the conservatory built. They tried digging a soak away but had to bring in a mini digger to get through it.
Would it be worth looking for old maps to see where springs and streams used to be and look into having a soak away put into your garden somewhere.
Not many plants will enjoy growing with their roots in water
It seems that the rubble is only in the area where they've changed the levels. I've been sticking my fork down in other areas and not hit anything. The outdoor toilet still exists as part of a utility lean to on the side of the house, so no rubble from that. Will old maps show springs and streams? That's interesting. I'm not entirely sure what a soak away is but I don't think I have one. It looks as though the guttering pipe just comes down onto a bit of a border next to the conservatory. There is an area of gravel border slightly down the slope from it which she kept pots on. I did wonder whether that was an attempt at creating drainage for the guttering water. Would a soak away be visible? My neighbours claimed their garden was more wet once the conservatory was built, but they had a few little digs about the previous owner so I dismissed their comment as another moan out of dislike for her. I have more plants than any of the neighbours but a few have died. I haven't put in any new plants, the only ones I have at the moment are what the previous owner left behind. I've only added spring bulbs and they've all been ok. The irony is that the previous owner seemed to love gardening and plants but has filled any area not immediately visible with rubble and broken old junk. It's taken us a while just to clear the things which were above ground. The garden looked lovely until you looked closely ?
A soak away is simply a pit filled with course rubble or stones to act as a sump trap for excess water. This allows the water to drain from the soil & then slowly soaks away into the surrounding ground over time. It needs to be at the lowest point of your garden to work and ideally have land drains fed into it.
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If your roof water is running down into the garden and not into a soak away, that would cause waterlogging, especially after all of the wet weather which has been prevalent in the last few years. also, the development in the area, on farm land is another, you really do have a problem as your garden looks as if rubble has been used with gay abandonment. Under ground waterways and springs will find their own route as the extensive flooding throughout the country has shown recently. I am also wondering if the rubble from the outside toilet etc. has been buried to get rid of it.
I had no idea there was solidified shale under my garden until I had the conservatory built. They tried digging a soak away but had to bring in a mini digger to get through it.
Would it be worth looking for old maps to see where springs and streams used to be and look into having a soak away put into your garden somewhere.
Not many plants will enjoy growing with their roots in water
It seems that the rubble is only in the area where they've changed the levels. I've been sticking my fork down in other areas and not hit anything. The outdoor toilet still exists as part of a utility lean to on the side of the house, so no rubble from that. Will old maps show springs and streams? That's interesting. I'm not entirely sure what a soak away is but I don't think I have one. It looks as though the guttering pipe just comes down onto a bit of a border next to the conservatory. There is an area of gravel border slightly down the slope from it which she kept pots on. I did wonder whether that was an attempt at creating drainage for the guttering water. Would a soak away be visible? My neighbours claimed their garden was more wet once the conservatory was built, but they had a few little digs about the previous owner so I dismissed their comment as another moan out of dislike for her. I have more plants than any of the neighbours but a few have died. I haven't put in any new plants, the only ones I have at the moment are what the previous owner left behind. I've only added spring bulbs and they've all been ok. The irony is that the previous owner seemed to love gardening and plants but has filled any area not immediately visible with rubble and broken old junk. It's taken us a while just to clear the things which were above ground. The garden looked lovely until you looked closely ?
A soak away is simply a pit filled with course rubble or stones to act as a sump trap for excess water. This allows the water to drain from the soil & then slowly soaks away into the surrounding ground over time. It needs to be at the lowest point of your garden to work and ideally have land drains fed into it.
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