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Old 18-02-2007, 01:06 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default What soil type would you put in raised beds?

"tina" wrote in message
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On 17 Feb 2007 09:05:07 -0800, "La Puce" wrote:

No I dont think there that big, 3 beds 21 railway sleepers in total.
1 sleper high, but I plan to dig well into the solid clay & put some
land drainage pipes in to help with the drainage, then chuck all the
compost etc on top of the pipes.


Tina where are these land drains going to take the water to? If it is some
other part of the garden, that bit will be flooded. Water has to 'go'
somewhere. Now if you have a nice convenient ditch at the bottom of the
garden :-)))))

Mike


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