"Martin Sykes" wrote in message
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"Soup" wrote in message
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Have a very heavy clay soil.. Have it in the back of my mind that worms
would loosen this soil up but the garden was slabbed for years so there
is no evidence of worms at all. Wondered if there was a worm supplier
(Edinburgh region) and I could make holes with a garden fork and put a
worm in each hole leave it alone for a year and voila unclaggy soil.

Is this a viable option or is it down to taking tons of soil out,
putting
sand in and putting most of the soil back ?


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Worms need some organic matter to mix in. I don't expect they would do
much
with raw clay. You might fare better by planting some strong root crops on
it to break up the soil instead. I'm not sure what, but potatos might do
the
job well. You shouldn't need to remove the clay as it's usually very rich
in
nutrients. You just need to supplement it a bit.

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you need to pile on all the compost/horse manure etc you can lay hands on

Check that your LA does not recycle all the green waste into free compost
.......many do

Check stables and livery stables etc for free stable manure ......they are
usually only too glad for you to take what you want