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Old 03-02-2004, 04:34 AM
Joseph Chong
 
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Default Drainage advice?

What are some good web sites etc... for drainage of yards and gardens. In
Vancouver BC it is so wet all winter my lawn and garden of my 'new' house
(new to us, it is 70 years old and the garden was negelcted the past ten
years easy) is a lake after a rain. I think the soil is very compacted and I
will spike it in the spring. The soil is very thick and quite clay-like. I
tried to dig a dry well and that didn't go over well when it rained for a
week before I could get any gravel to fill it, it mike make nice pond
now.... I will fill it when the rains stop.
Any ideas about soil admendments to improve drainage? Sand? Gypsum?
I don't want to do drainage tile unless it is absolutley necessary.

jc