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Originally Posted by H Ryder
On a practical level how do you cope with applying manure to a border with
a
bark chip mulch. If you want to manure and mulch every year, does this
rule
out bark chips.
you could scrape back the bark, put down the manure, then put the bark back.
Hayley
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I too have a clay garden. When the gas pipes were re-done round here they had to abandon their little diggers in some areas and get in the ground with spades!!
I might try some of the suggestions here, although I've pretty much given up trying to create a nice layer of topsoil.
If you choose plants that don't mind clay soil and water well when they go in, you can create a lovely garden and save your back.
Clay soil is pretty nutritious once a plant has settled in. I've found that aquilegia, ribus, astilbe and many others have been happy with just a potsized hole cut out of the clay and plenty of water in the first couple of weeks. Even a very mature wisteria I just put in is flourishing (and the way I put that into the ground was shameful considering the size of the plant!!)
I'm going to get told off now for being so lazy.....
