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Broadback writes:
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| Thanks for all your replies. As regards your appendum Mike, I am afraid
| that the land is very sloping, and any topsoil has been washed to the
| bottom. All that I have is gravel, I believe it is called, though to me
| it is various sizes of pebbles kept apart by small amounts of sand and
| clay. The only way to "dig" it is with a pickax! A visitor told me
| that the fact that gorse is infecting the area is a certain sign of no
| or very poor topsoil.

Not a certain sign, but a good one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.