On Mar 31, 4:13 pm, "chris lowe" wrote:
Hi everyone,
We've moved into a house with what used to be a nice 2 tier garden, alas the
previous owner was a bit of an idiot and dug out the top tier - about 3ft of
topsoil was disposed of - so he could have a flat lawn. Now we're left with
the underlying clay rubbish which is compacted and sticky and impossible to
dig / rake etc. As he dug out 3ft of earth the garden is now so low down it
hardly gets any sun and doesn't drain which has made the clay even worse and
even the grass has stopped growing and moss has appeared in its place!

My question is, Is there anything we can do like adding sand etc to the clay
to make it more habitable for plants, even veggies, as at the moment it just
looks awful!

Any help would be most appreciated as I don't fancy moving 10tons of topsoil
back in!!!

Chris

Chris, we have been working on our heavy clay soil at this house for
over 10 years. I was given loads of advice from urglers and I added
almost everything that they recommended including tons of chipped
bark.

I tried to plant something today, just a couple of inches down, I hit
clay,it is only marginally better than it was after all this effort, I
wish we had imported tons of topsoil in the first place. I hope you
have better luck than we did.