Originally Posted by dapex

Hi all, I am new here and I have come in the hope of finding help with my boggy garden. All winter my garden is pretty much out of bounds and seems to be wet throught days after any rain, it never fllods but its certanly bad enough to stop the kids being able to go and play in it. The house is on a fairly new estate and everyones garden is as bad. It does have a downward slope but the slope leads to a patio and so putting drainage pipe is a bit trick and apart from that, after the patio is a fence with a gravel board almost fully buried and then my neighbours garden is lower than mine.

I have thought about hiring a petrol post hole digger and going 2 to 3 ft down every few feet and then filling the holes in with thick gravel, do you think this would help? I think the biggest problem is that the soil is very thick and clay based....

I cant really affors to spend the money on gravel and a skip if it wotn help much so if you can offer any advice then please feel free.

I know I can use a garden fork and make hols in my lawn and fill with sharp sand but that does seem a very slow and labourios job in all honesty and I imagine very messey with sand ending up alll over the lawn??

Cheers in advance for any help you can give

Dave